The Ducks (41-28-5) head up to Northern California for a one-game road trip against the Sharks (34-31-7).<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for 6 p.m. PT and will be nationally televised on TNT.<\/p>\n
Anaheim lost a tough one in overtime on Monday as the Maple Leafs scored with five seconds left in the extra frame for a 5-4 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should have had two points in the game and been moving on to [Tuesday],\u201d said John Carlson, who had his first goal as a Duck in the game. \u201cWe did a good job for a lot of the game in terms of how we played and in terms of dealing with the emotions, but we\u2019ve got to be more mature and come out on top of these games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, Anaheim has a two-point lead over Edmonton for the top spot in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
But all eyes are on tonight\u2019s matchup featuring some of the brightest young stars not only in California, but in the NHL. The Ducks post an average age of 21 for their top three scorers while the Sharks\u2019 top three scorers\u2019 average age is 20.<\/p>\n
At 20 years old, Beckett Sennecke is one of those top three scorers for Anaheim and is tied for the most goals amongst rookies (22). As the regular season winds down, head coach Joel Quenneville shared what he\u2019s looking to see out of the Calder Trophy contender.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think putting it all together here down the stretch, the games are meaningful, the shifts are valuable,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cI think adding that on a regular basis from here on out throughout the whole year for him is going to be a work in progress, but the upside is we want to make sure there\u2019s balance. Let him play and let\u2019s play a team game.\u201d<\/p>\n
After losing six games in a row, the Sharks have won their last two, most recently beating the Blues 5-4 on Monday. Macklin Celebrini has been a huge part of the team\u2019s offensive identity this year and leads the way for the Sharks with 101 points on the season (38 goals, 63 assists).<\/p>\n
The Ducks will be without their leading goal scorer, Cutter Gauthier as he will miss tonight\u2019s game with an upper-body injury. Quenneville said Radko Gudas will also miss tonight\u2019s game for Anaheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (41-28-5) head up to Northern California for a one-game road trip against the Sharks (34-31-7). Puck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-247125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}