ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Alex Killorn and rookie Beckett Sennecke had a power-play goal and an assist apiece, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in Game 4 on Sunday night to even their second-round series at two games apiece.<\/p>\n
Ian Moore got his first career playoff goal, Cutter Gauthier contributed three assists and Mikael Granlund also scored for the upstart Ducks, who responded to their 6-2 blowout loss in Game 3 with another mature two-way performance in their first playoff run since 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a great rebound, a good, resilient game,\u201d Killorn said. \u201cI think there was a lot more urgency tonight. That’s kind of the way playoffs go. You don’t ever want to lose two in a row at home. You don’t want to go down 3-1 in a series. We made some adjustments. That’s just what playoffs is. They had a great game last time. We had a good game tonight, and we expect it to be a really good series going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lukas Dostal made 18 saves in a strong bounce-back effort after getting pulled from Game 3 for allowing three goals in his latest shaky first period, and his teammates provided more than enough offense in their highest-scoring performance of the series. The Ducks are tied for the overall Stanley Cup playoff lead with 36 goals and 10 power-play scores.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we worked hard and did a lot of good things,\u201d Anaheim coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cA little dangerous at the end again, but certainly a lot of positives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Game 5 is Tuesday night in Las Vegas, with Game 6 back in Anaheim on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Pavel Dorofeyev and Brett Howden scored for the Golden Knights, whose three-game road winning streak ended.<\/p>\n
Carter Hart stopped 19 shots despite some shaky moments, while Mitch Marner had three assists in Game 4 following his hat trick in Game 3, giving him an NHL-leading and career-best 16 points in the postseason.<\/p>\n
Anaheim’s two power-play goals ended the unit\u2019s 0-for-11 skid and finally dented a Vegas penalty kill that allowed just one power-play goal in its first nine postseason games. Killorn got the tiebreaking power-play goal late in the second period when he drove the net and his shot trickled through Hart.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not going to dissect the PK,\u201d Vegas coach John Tortorella said. \u201cI think the biggest part of the game was we needed to get out of the second period (tied) 2-2. That gave them some life, and they scored their fourth goal and they’re just filling the neutral zone, just stacking. I think that was the most important part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moore added to the Ducks’ early in the third, recording his first career playoff point. Tomas Hertl ended his personal 29-game goal drought when he scored for Vegas with 1:04 left while Hart was pulled for an extra attacker, but Anaheim held on.<\/p>\n
Sennecke, the Ducks\u2019 20-year-old Calder Trophy finalist, opened the scoring with just the second power-play goal allowed by the Golden Knights in the entire postseason, ending a streak of 21 straight kills.<\/p>\n
Sennecke scored a goal in his third consecutive game, joining Sidney Crosby (2007) as the only players under 21 with a three-game postseason goal streak in the 21st century.<\/p>\n
Howden tied it with his seventh goal of the postseason early in the second period off a slick setup from former Ducks draft pick William Karlsson.<\/p>\n
Vegas played without captain Mark Stone, who incurred an undisclosed injury in Game 3.<\/p>\n
Anaheim shook up its lineup, inserting puck-moving defenseman Olen Zellweger for his playoff debut and his first game action since April 7 while Moore and forward Mason McTavish also returned after healthy scratches. Quenneville praised all three players’ effort.<\/p>\n
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AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nhl<\/p>\n
Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Alex Killorn and rookie Beckett Sennecke had a power-play goal and an assist apiece,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-309905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309905","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=309905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}