The Ducks (42-32-6) would have clinched their first Stanley Cup Playoff berth in eight seasons with a win of any kind. Anaheim, which has lost seven of eight (1-5-2), is third in the Pacific Division, three points ahead of the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
Rossi scored with a one-timer from the right face-off circle with two seconds left on the power play after Chris Kreider was called for slashing.<\/p>\n
Rossi also had an assist, Curtis Douglas scored his first NHL goal, and Jake DeBrusk and Brock Boeser also scored for the Canucks (24-48-8), who were coming off a 4-3 shootout win at the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. Nikita Tolopilo made 24 saves.<\/p>\n
The Canucks have won two in a row for the second time this season and first since a four-game winning streak from Dec. 14-20.<\/p>\n
Cutter Gauthier scored two goals after missing the previous five games because of an upper-body injury, Kreider had two assists for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal made 22 saves.<\/p>\n
The Ducks still had the puck in the Vancouver zone after the Canucks killed the first power play of the game when Kreider tapped a rebound to Gauthier on the other side of the crease and he scored with a one-timer into the open side of the net for a 1-0 lead at 3:41 of the first period.<\/p>\n
Douglas, a 6-foot-9 forward who was playing in his 41st NHL game after he was claimed off waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 6, pushed in a rebound that got behind Dostal in the crease to tie it 1-1 at 10:49.<\/p>\n
Vancouver was on a power play when DeBrusk tipped in a point shot from Rossi for a 2-1 lead at 14:37 of the first period.<\/p>\n
Boeser stole a pass back to defenseman John Carlson at the right point while the Ducks were on a power play and scored on a breakaway to make it 3-1 at 4:28 of the third period.<\/p>\n
The power play continued and Gauthier scored his 40th goal of the season when he squeezed a one-timer through the pads of Tolopilo to cut it to 3-2 at 5:04.<\/p>\n
Leo Carlsson tied it 3-3 at 6:56 when he flipped a backhand over Tolopilo from a sharp angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (42-32-6) would have clinched their first Stanley Cup Playoff berth in eight seasons with a win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-264961","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\/264961","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=264961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}