{"id":317174,"date":"2026-05-15T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317174\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:44:12","slug":"anaheim-ducks-eliminated-after-game-6-loss-to-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317174\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Eliminated After Game 6 Loss to Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks<\/a>\u2018 season ended Thursday night at the Honda Center with a 5-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in Game 6 of the Western Conference Second Round. Vegas won the series 4-2 and moved on to the Western Conference Final.<\/p>\n

Vegas have now advanced to the conference final for the fifth time in nine seasons, which is a reminder of how quickly that organization has built playoff weight. For Anaheim, this was the end of its first postseason run since 2018.<\/p>\n

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It was just 62 seconds into the game, when Mitch Marner<\/a> gave Vegas a 1-0 lead on a breakaway. William Karlsson<\/a> sent him in with a long pass, and Marner beat Lukas Dostal<\/a> with a slick finish. Fast start. Bad sign.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports<\/a> reported that Marner played a role in all three Vegas goals in the first period, and that first-period push pretty much shaped the night. Anaheim wasn\u2019t buried by one bad bounce. It was three hits before the Ducks could get their footing.<\/p>\n

Brett Howden<\/a> scored short-handed at 8:30 of the first period after taking a feed from Marner. That made it 2-0, and it hurt twice as much for Duck\u2019s fans as the team were on the power play.<\/p>\n

NHL.c<\/a>om<\/a> stated that Howden\u2019s goal was his third short-handed goal of the playoffs, tying the NHL<\/a> record for most in one playoff run.<\/p>\n

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Shea Theodore<\/a> made it 3-0 with 2:41 left in the opening period. Tomas Hertl<\/a> won the offensive-zone draw back to Theodore, and he beat Dostal with a wrist shot from the blue line.<\/p>\n

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Granlund gives Anaheim a little life<\/p>\n

Mikael Granlund<\/a> cut the lead to 3-1 with 7:14 left in the second period. It gave the team and fans a little hope.<\/p>\n

Carter Hart<\/a> stopped 31 of 32 shots, showing that the Ducks put enough pucks on net to make the game interesting, but not enough of them turned into real damage.<\/p>\n

Any hope was gone in the third period as Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> scored twice. His first came just under three minutes into the frame after Ivan Barbashev<\/a> forced a turnover and set him up in the right circle. His second came with 6:28 left, making it 5-1.<\/p>\n

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A tough ending, but not an empty one<\/p>\n

Vegas now heads to Colorado<\/a> for Game 1 of the Western Conference Final on Wednesday, May 20. Anaheim heads into the offseason after a playoff run that ended hard, but still showed growth.<\/p>\n

From a Ducks fan\u2019s view, this one stings because the series had chances. Anaheim won Game 2. It answered in Game 4. It forced overtime in Game 5. Then Game 6 arrived, and Vegas looked like the older, sharper team.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where the Ducks are now. They\u2019re closer than before and after years away from the postseason stage, that still means something.<\/p>\n

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