{"id":518020,"date":"2026-11-04T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518020\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:20:09","slug":"gauthier-scores-three-ducks-hold-off-canucks-for-narrow-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518020\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauthier scores three, Ducks hold off Canucks for narrow win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cutter Gauthier scored a hat trick for the second game in a row and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> held on for a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Mikael Granlund added a goal and two assists for the Ducks (7-7-1), while Leo Carlsson put away a short-handed tally and Beckett Sennecke contributed four helpers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Laurent Brossoit stopped 19 of the 23 shots he faced in the Anaheim net.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Ducks came into the game with the league’s second-best power play (34 per cent) behind only the Utah Mammoth (34.6 per cent) and went 3-for-3 with the man advantage.<\/p>\n

The Canucks (3-13-1) got two goals from Jake DeBrusk, and one each from Liam Ohgren and Linus Karlsson. Star centre Elias Pettersson notched a pair of assists.<\/p>\n

Vancouver goalie Kevin Lankinen made 17 saves in his first start since Oct. 22.<\/p>\n

The Canucks pushed to tie the game in the third period, rallying from a 5-2 deficit similar to the one they faced when they beat the Ducks 6-5 in overtime on Oct. 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This time, though, Vancouver couldn’t complete the comeback.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Granlund opened the scoring on Tuesday with a power-play tally just over four minutes into the first period, sending a shot through Lankinen’s pads from the middle of the slot on Anaheim’s first shot of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vancouver replied on a man advantage two minutes later. Marco Rossi fed Ohgren a pass just above the crease and the Swedish winger hammered a shot in to level the score at 1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Ducks took a 2-1 lead into the intermission when Gauthier fired a shot in on his team’s second power play of the night at the 17:07 mark of the first.<\/p>\n

Anaheim’s penalty kill got to work early in the second with Carlsson getting loose for a short-handed 2-on-1. He ripped a shot in past Lankinen for his fifth goal of the season, giving the visitors a 3-1 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karlsson brought the Canucks back within a goal just over eight minutes into the middle frame, taking a puck from Drew O’Connor, pulling it across his body and firing a sharp-angle in over Brossoit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anaheim’s power play got back to work before the end of the period and Gauthier buried his second of the night to give the Ducks a 4-2 lead. He now leads league in power-play goals with eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gauthier added another goal \u2014 this time at even strength \u2014 at the 4:11 mark of the third period to complete his hat trick.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also scored three in Anaheim’s 6-3 comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday, and is the first player in Ducks history to register back-to-back three-goal games.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old American has eight goals in his last three games after going the previous nine without finding the back of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gauthier was in the penalty box midway through the third when DeBrusk scored his fourth of the season to put the score at 5-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DeBrusk breathed new life into Rogers arena with just over 10 minutes left on the game clock, blasting a point shot in to cut Vancouver’s deficit to a single goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Canucks pulled Lankinen with a minute and 43 seconds left in the third but couldn’t get another puck past Brossoit to knot the score.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canucks: Defenceman Tom Willander was a late scratch after picking up a lower-body injury in the morning skate. Guillaume Brisebois slotted into Vancouver’s lineup and Zeev Buium moved over to the right-hand side in relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ducks: Left-winger Nico Myatovic got his NHL debut with friends and family in the stands. The 21-year-old forward from Prince George, B.C., was called up from the American Hockey League’s San Diego Gulls on Monday and logged 10:34 in ice time over his first outing with the Ducks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ohgren snuck up behind Jackson LaCombe in Anaheim territory late in the first period, picked the puck off his stick and put it in past Brossoit. The on-ice official immediately disallowed the goal and sent Ohgren to the box for holding, and Gauthier scored eight seconds into the ensuing power play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anaheim has 10 power-play goals on 12 chances over its last three games.<\/p>\n

Ducks: Visit the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Canucks: Visit the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier scored a hat trick for the second game in a row and the Anaheim Ducks held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-518020","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\/518020","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=518020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}