{"id":485010,"date":"2026-10-04T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485010\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:18:55","slug":"preview-ducks-host-panthers-in-festive-home-opener-at-honda-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485010\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Ducks Host Panthers in Festive Home Opener at Honda Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off a season opening win, the Ducks (1-0-0) return to Honda Center for their home opener against the Panthers (1-0-1).<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop is set for\u00a05\u00a0p.m. PT and will be broadcast on\u00a0Prime Video\u00a0and\u00a0FOX Los Angeles + (Channel 13 KCOP).<\/p>\n<p>Dating back to 2016, Anaheim has won 10 straight home openers, good for a franchise record. A win tonight would give the team their 11th, which would tie the Bruins for the longest active streak in the\u00a0NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The home opener will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/fans\/home-opener-orange-carpet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many exciting activations including\u00a0the annual\u00a0Orange\u00a0Carpet player\u00a0arrivals<\/a>,\u00a0new merch,\u00a0the first\u00a0Surprise Puck\u00a0sale\u00a0of the season, and more. Fans are also encouraged to be in their seats by 4:45 p.m.\u00a0for pregame warmups and the debut of a new on-ice pregame show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks\u00a0return\u00a0home\u00a0with a victory under their belt\u00a0after beating the Golden Knights, 4-3, on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a big win for us,\u201d head coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cWe had a strong start, pretty even, then all of a sudden, we started scoring some goals there. I thought our pace was excellent. I thought we did a lot of good things pressuring up to all zones there to create some odd-man situations. Our speed was effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo Carlsson\u00a0had a goal and assist in the game while Beckett Sennecke, Alex Killorn, and Jeff Malott\u00a0netted the other three scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Noah Warren, who made his NHL debut,\u00a0had a primary assist good for his first\u00a0career point.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Greer, who is set to face his former team tonight, earned his first point as a member of the Ducks with an assist vs Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s game\u00a0also\u00a0welcomes the return of Radko Gudas to Honda Center. Now a member of the Panthers, the former Ducks captain talked about\u00a0returning to \u201cfamiliar territory\u201d and gave a first-hand scouting report\u00a0on his\u00a0prior\u00a0team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re a young, talented team,\u201d Gudas said of the Ducks. \u201cThey have all the right tools early in their career so they\u2019re an exciting team to watch. They\u2019re an exciting team to play against so we\u2019re really excited.\u00a0Especially for me, it\u2019s going to be a special night coming back so I\u2019m really looking forward to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers\u00a0come into this game off a 4-3 overtime\u00a0loss to the Sharks on\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0Center\u00a0Aleksander Barkov exited the game in the second period with a leg injury and was placed on long-term injured reserve\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off a season opening win, the Ducks (1-0-0) return to Honda Center for their home opener against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-485010","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\/485010","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=485010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}