{"id":523768,"date":"2026-11-09T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/523768\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:18:27","slug":"cutter-gauthier-gets-his-3rd-hat-trick-in-november-propelling-the-prolific-ducks-past-penguins-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/523768\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier gets his 3rd hat trick in November, propelling the prolific Ducks past Penguins 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier<\/a> continued his scoring rampage with his third hat trick in eight days, and captain Mikael Granlund<\/a> had a goal and three assists in the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>‘ fifth consecutive victory, 5-2 over the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Gauthier\u2019s empty-net goal in the final minute gave him three goals and an assist for the Ducks, who became the first team since the 1988-89 Los Angeles Kings to score at least five goals in eight consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Gauthier extended his goals streak to six games and his points streak to a career best-tying eight games with his fourth multi-goal performance during this electric sequence, including three of his four career hat tricks. He has scored eight of his 13 goals in this six-game stretch on power plays.<\/p>\n

Jackson LaCombe<\/a> had three assists and tied a Ducks record with an assist in his 10th consecutive game. Laurent Brossoit<\/a> made 32 saves for his fourth victory in four starts in Anaheim\u2019s net.<\/p>\n

Kris Letang<\/a> and Rickard Rakell<\/a> scored 6-on-4 power-play goals in the third period after Pittsburgh had fallen behind 4-0. Evgeni Malkin<\/a> had two assists and Arturs Silovs<\/a> stopped 20 shots for the Penguins, who snapped a four-game skid Saturday night at Los Angeles in the opener of their California trip.<\/p>\n

Granlund scored from the slot in the first period right as a power play ended, extending his scoring streak to six games.<\/p>\n

After Pittsburgh failed to score during nearly 4 1\/2 straight minutes of power-play time early in the second, Gauthier beat Silovs with a beautiful no-look shot for his first goal. Gauthier scored again less than three minutes later with a quick wrist shot.<\/p>\n

Luneau ripped a power-play goal early in the third and extended his point streak to eight games, justifying the faith shown when the Ducks signed the defenseman to a $43.2 million extension last month before his first full NHL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh avoided the shutout on Letang’s 6-on-4 score with 11:55 to play, the first goal of his 21st NHL season.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Penguins: At San Jose on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Ducks: Host Nashville on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier continued his scoring rampage with his third hat trick in eight days,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,6483,1718,81064,9013,2099,4858,11510,823,896,1603,6269],"class_list":["post-523768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-arturs-silovs","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-event_recap","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-jackson-lacombe","tag-kris-letang","tag-laurent-brossoit","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-rickard-rakell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523768","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=523768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}