a 4-3 victory Friday in Las Vegas<\/a>. That was a game in which they held a 4-0 lead before an ill-fated challenge, its resulting power-play goal and a late flurry made the match much more intriguing.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was a little bit tighter than we wanted at the end. We expected a push, but we won the game, so it\u2019s good,\u201d Leo Carlsson told reporters.<\/p>\n
Carlsson scored a goal, slamming home a follow-up after two stellar saves from Carter Hart, and silkily set up Beckett Sennecke to earn a primary assist. Goalie Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dost\u00e1l answered the bell in a big way, keeping the first period scoreless until Sennecke\u2019s late goal and staving off Vegas\u2019 late forays.<\/p>\n
Flanking Carlsson were fellow big-ticket attacker Cutter Gauthier and one of the many new Ducks, A.J. Greer. Greer skated for the Panthers the past two seasons and said he went to Coach Paul Maurice with his desire to play higher in the lineup. A year later, he\u2019s on the top line in Orange County for Joel Quenneville.<\/p>\n
While the Ducks won their season opener in large measure because of their top players, the Panthers have collected three of a possible four points to date in spite of missing some key figures.<\/p>\n
They began their schedule without veteran Brad Marchand, who will spend October recovering from an offseason procedure. Now, they\u2019re again without captain Aleksander Barkov.<\/p>\n
Barkov, who led the Cats to consecutive Cups in 2024 and 2025, missed all of last season after undergoing reconstructive knee surgery. Barkov might have aggravated the injury in Friday\u2019s 4-3 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks. After an awkward landing, he asked for the Zamboni doors to be opened and headed to the training room in visible frustration. He did not return to the game and was placed on long-term injured reserve Saturday.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s travel party will include not one but two Tkachuks, after a trade with the Ottawa Senators brought Brady Tkachuk to join his brother Matthew. Against San Jose, Matthew scored an equalizer that forced overtime in a game Florida had trailed 3-0 and Brady took down former Ducks defenseman Jacob Trouba in a fight.<\/p>\n
Florida (1-0-1) at Ducks (1-0)<\/p>\n
When: 5 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n
Where: Honda Center<\/p>\n
How to watch: KCOP-13, Prime Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the Ducks, the second game of their campaign won\u2019t be too early to make history. Following their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-484217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484217","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=484217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}