The Vancouver Canucks close out their three-game road trip through California with the second game of a back-to-back on Sunday evening in Anaheim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following a shootout victory on Saturday night in San Jose, the Canucks now set\u00a0their sights on the Anaheim Ducks with three games\u00a0remaining\u00a0in their 2025-26 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Teddy Blueger scored the game-tying goal in the third period on Saturday, and Linus Karlsson scored the game-winning goal in the\u00a0shootout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ducks hold the third spot in the Pacific Division with their 42-32-5 record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier have a tie for the team\u00a0lead\u00a0in points with 65 apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gauthier is having a breakout season, notching 38 goals through 73 games played.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ducks\u00a0acquired\u00a0defenceman John Carlson at the trade\u00a0deadline,\u00a0and he has averaged the move average ice time per game since the trade (24:29).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jackson LaCombe has been a steady presence on the Ducks\u2019 blueline throughout the season. He has nine goals and 46 assists, while averaging 24:12 of ice time per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lukas Dostal has started 53 games this season and holds a 30-19-3 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ducks rank seventh in the league in controlling shot share.<\/p>\n
The Story:\u00a0Jake Breaks 20\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake DeBrusk scored his 20th\u00a0goal of the season on Saturday night. 17 of those goals have come on the power play, which ranks fourth in the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeBrusk now has five 20-goal seasons in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has been a key contributor on the Canucks\u2019 power play, which has scored\u00a013 goals in their last 13 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Linus Karlsson: 2g-2a-4p\u00a0
Teddy Blueger: 1g-3a-4p\u00a0
Filip Hronek: 0g-4a-4p\u00a0
Jake DeBrusk: 3g-0a-3p\u00a0
Marco Rossi: 2g-0a-2p\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s game is at 5:00 p.m. PT, and you can watch the game on Sportsnet or listen to Brendan Batchelor\u2019s radio call on Sportsnet 650 and the Sportsnet Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks close out their three-game road trip through California with the second game of a back-to-back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-263782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263782","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=263782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}