{"id":313129,"date":"2026-05-13T04:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:51:14","slug":"brayden-mcnabb-ejected-after-hit-leaves-ducks-ryan-poehling-wobbly-in-game-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313129\/","title":{"rendered":"Brayden McNabb ejected after hit leaves Ducks&#8217; Ryan Poehling wobbly in Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/anaheim-ducks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/ryan-poehling-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Poehling<\/a> was helped off the ice after being checked hard into the boards by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/vegas-golden-knights-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/brayden-mcnabb-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden McNabb<\/a> nearly midway through the first period of their Game 5 meeting Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">McNabb, a first-pair D-man, received a five-minute major for interference and was sent to the dressing room with a game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Anaheim announced Poehling would not return to the game because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The Ducks got a goal off the power play when rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/beckett-sennecke-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beckett Sennecke<\/a> scored off a rebound with 7:24 left in the period. That extended his goals streak to four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Poehling entered the game with four goals and an assist in 10 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">McNabb slammed into Poehling with his shoulder. But the brunt of the hit caused the back of Poehling&#8217;s head to hit the glass. He went to the ice and tried to stand, but was wobbly and went back down. He was helped off the ice to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The teams entered the game with the second-round series 2-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Poehling was helped off the ice after being checked hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,1720,66513,896,15954,8614],"class_list":["post-313129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-beckett-sennecke","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-ryan-poehling","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313129","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=313129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}