{"id":518560,"date":"2026-11-04T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518560\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:16:09","slug":"cutter-gauthier-getting-hot-at-an-important-time-for-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518560\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier getting hot at an important time for Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It hasn\u2019t been the best of starts for the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. After winning their first playoff series since 2017 last season, the Ducks were hoping to take the proverbial next step this year. They stumbled out of the blocks, however, going 5-7-1 for just 11 points over their first 13 games.<\/p>\n

Since then, though, Anaheim has won two straight games thanks in large part to the herculean effort of winger Cutter Gauthier, who notched hat tricks in each of those wins, including in Tuesday\u2019s 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. Gauthier, 22, won\u2019t be able to score a hat trick every game, but if he can get back to his 40-goal form from last season, it\u2019ll go a long way towards getting the Ducks firmly back in the Western Conference\u2019s playoff picture.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton discussed the significance of Gauthier\u2019s recent performance for Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0Things weren\u2019t going good for Anaheim and they were heading into a stretch of their season that I don\u2019t think is a stretch to call pivotal. If they would\u2019ve stumbled here for another week or two there would\u2019ve been some serious red flags being waived in regards to this team. I have a lot of respect for a guy like Gauthier who just kind of shrugs and says \u201cBoys, hop on, I\u2019ve got this one.\u201d Eight goals in three games, and yesterday the way he was scoring them, it\u2019s like borderline unstoppable. It\u2019s weird, usually a left shot is set up on the other side of the ice on the power play when they have the kind of shot that Gautheir does. He goes on that other side, and it\u2019s almost like teams don\u2019t know how to react or read or cover him.<\/p>\n

Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0I think what they\u2019re trying to do, is as that guy drops to the goal line on the power play and he\u2019s the lefty on the goalies blocker side, is play that bumper to the middle which kind of opens him up. The first one is a great example, it goes low to high and he\u2019s ready to hit that one-timer right away. The second one, I kind of blame Vancouver a bit. The coverage just gets lost with guys going up and down. It\u2019s kind of like a piston system when you\u2019re defending, you\u2019re out and you\u2019re back, and if you get crossed up you have to switch your man, it was a miscommunication. And then the third one, the goal to give him the hat trick was absolutely world class. It\u2019s a pass, you probably don\u2019t want to let a seam through the middle, but his catch and release coming down right at the hashmarks is unbelievable.<\/p>\n

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Anaheim DucksTeam Cap Summary<\/p>\n

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Cap Summary<\/p>\n

Projected Cap Hit<\/p>\n

$105,144,432<\/p>\n

$97,999,939<\/p>\n

Projected Cap Space<\/p>\n

-$1,144,432<\/p>\n

$15,500,061<\/p>\n

Current Cap Space<\/p>\n

$2,746,561<\/p>\n

$15,500,061<\/p>\n

View cap summary for:Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Wednesday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It hasn\u2019t been the best of starts for the Anaheim Ducks. After winning their first playoff series since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-518560","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\/518560","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=518560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}