{"id":483725,"date":"2026-10-03T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483725\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:32:32","slug":"anaheim-ducks-fend-off-late-surge-by-vegas-to-win-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483725\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks fend off late surge by Vegas to win season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Leo Carlsson<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Lukas Dostal<\/a> made 27 saves, and the Ducks<\/a> opened the season by holding off the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The teams met last season in the second round of the playoffs, with Vegas winning in six games<\/a> and going on to win the Western Conference. The Golden Knights opened Tuesday night at home with a 5-2 victory over Chicago.<\/p>\n

Carlson set up Beckett Sennecke\u2019s goal with eight seconds left in the first period, then scored at 7:03 of the second to cap a three-goal burst for a 4-0 lead. Alex Killorn and Jeff Malott also scored.<\/p>\n

Shea Theodore, Tomas Hertl and Braeden Bowman scored for Vegas in the third period, with Bowman connecting with 2:50 left. Hertl struck on a power play.<\/p>\n

Carter Hart stopped 16 shots for the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Ducks: vs. Florida at Honda Center on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Leo Carlsson had a goal and an assist, Lukas Dostal made 27 saves, and the Ducks opened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4855,163,824,165,164,1720,39564,95564,4419,2194,1716,63,11748,34158,4403,22926,39578,8614],"class_list":["post-483725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alex-killorn","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-beckett-sennecke","tag-braeden-bowman","tag-carlson","tag-chicago","tag-goal","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-season-opener","tag-second-round","tag-tomas-hertl","tag-tuesday-night","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483725","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=483725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}