{"id":304984,"date":"2026-05-07T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:39:15","slug":"joel-quenneville-made-all-the-right-moves-in-game-2-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304984\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Quenneville made all the right moves in Game 2 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks<\/a> may be in the playoffs for the first time in eight seasons, but it\u2019s clear they\u2019re not simply happy to be there. After dispatching the back-to-back Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in the first round, the Ducks have arguably outplayed the more experienced Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> over the first two games of their second-round series. Despite outshooting Vegas 34-22 in Game 1, and generating 67.02% of the expected goals according to Natural Stat Trick<\/a>, Anaheim lost by a score of 3-1.<\/p>\n

In Wednesday\u2019s Game 2, the Ducks drew even, once again outshooting and outchancing the Golden Knights en route to a 3-1 victory. Goaltender Lukas Dostal had a bounce-back performance, stopping 21 of 22 shots for the win, and star forward Leo Carlsson\u2019s first goal of the series was the game winner. Anaheim\u2019s ace up their sleeve, however, is their three-time Stanley Cup-winning head coach Joel Quenneville, who made some critical lineup adjustments in Game 2 to help earn the win.<\/p>\n

On Thursday\u2019s episode of\u00a0Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and Colby Cohen discussed how Quenneville pulled the right strings to get a win before the series heads to Anaheim for Game 3.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0Joel Quenneville really pushed a lot of the right buttons coming off that Game 1 loss. He throws in (Jansen) Harkins and (Ross) Johnston, who were just demons on the forecheck all night. He moves (Jeffrey) Viel around the lineup, and aside from taking one of those bad penalties, he ends up assisting on that Beckett Sennecke goal to open the scoring. Joel Quenneville finding ways to get the most out of his depth, as much as I love the Senneckes and the Carlssons and (Jackson) LaCombe\u2019s been excellent of course, and Dostal\u2019s bounced back well after getting lit up in that one game in Edmonton, Joel Quenneville and the way he\u2019s managed to get the most out of this depth, that\u2019s the headline once again.<\/p>\n

Colby\u00a0Cohen:\u00a0You scratch an assistant captain as well, a beloved player within the locker room. (Mason) McTavish was kind of in the dog house at times down the stretch. He came out of the lineup once or twice down the stretch with Quenneville, so you know that this is a relationship where I don\u2019t think the coach trusts the player. We had Alec Martinez on Morning Cuppa Hockey this morning, and no one knows these situations better than him with all the playoff success that he\u2019s had. You can look around the NHL playoffs, there\u2019s other scenarios that are similar. You have to be able to trust a guy that you\u2019re throwing over the boards. <\/p>\n

With McTavish, he\u2019s high risk and high reward, and coaches don\u2019t love that come playoff time. You have to learn how to limit risk, and the way that Anaheim plays, with a lot of risk, if McTavish is tipping the scale to where Quenneville doesn\u2019t trust him with everything else that he kind of allows, you know that it\u2019s not good as far as the way that they feel about him, meaning they just don\u2019t trust that he knows the next right play. <\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Thursday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks may be in the playoffs for the first time in eight seasons, but it\u2019s clear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-304984","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\/304984","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=304984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}