It was by far the flashiest play by Sennecke, but not the only big one he made in Anaheim\u2019s 4-3 win in Game 4 at Honda Center on Sunday that evened the best-of-7 series 2-2.<\/p>\n
He also scored a goal and was a physical menace all night long, giving the Ducks a much-needed win and some momentum heading back to Vegas for Game 5 on Tuesday (9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN360, SN, TVAS).<\/p>\n
Sennecke, who was selected No. 3 by Anaheim in the 2024 NHL Draft, said he fed off a Honda Center crowd that was trying to will the Ducks to rebound from their 6-2 loss here in Game 3 on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome, especially in the first. We heard them, they were really loud,\u201d Sennecke said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s why we kind of started on the front foot.\u201d<\/p>\n
And they stayed in control for most of the game, with Sennecke not only leading the way on the scoreboard, but along the boards or in the corners. Whatever he took from Vegas, he dished back out, not backing down. Pretty impressive for someone playing in his first NHL postseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was really involved emotionally in the game tonight,\u201d Killorn said. \u201cI think that\u2019s when he plays his best. He\u2019s making hits, he\u2019s taking hits. He makes two great plays on (his) goal and finds me, on my goal when he enters the zone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just like the way he plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
His play is a big reason the series is tied. He got the Ducks started on Sunday, scoring a power-play goal at 8:43 of the first period, beating Golden Knights goalie Carter Hart<\/a>\u00a0between the pads from near the blue line.<\/p>\n The teams then traded goals and appeared to be going into the second intermission tied, but Vegas\u2019 Cole Smith<\/a> got whistled for slashing Leo Carlsson<\/a>\u00a0at 16:43, sending the Ducks back on the power play and setting the stage for Sennecke\u2019s flashy move.<\/p>\n \u201cI fanned on the pass and I don\u2019t really know what happened,\u201d Sennecke said, \u201cbut I fanned on the pass and I just kind of spun and the guy bit on it. And I found Killorn, it was a low cycle and he took it to the house.\u201d<\/p>\n Killorn\u2019s goal at 17:58 of the second period was the biggest play of the game, Vegas coach John Tortorella said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we need to get out of the second period 2-2,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cSo that (goal) gave them some life.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was the most important part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n But Sennecke wasn\u2019t done. As the second period ended, he mixed it up with Vegas forward Nic Dowd near the blue line, eventually taking a cross-checking minor.<\/p>\n \u201cHe gets in the mix and he takes that penalty, I have no problem with that,\u201d said Killorn, a veteran of 150 Stanley Cup Playoff games. \u201cHe\u2019s battling and that\u2019s kind of what makes him good and keeps him in the game. And he\u2019s been great so far in these playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was by far the flashiest play by Sennecke, but not the only big one he made in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-310343","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\/310343","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=310343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}