the Ducks topped in a 3-2 overtime affair<\/a> on Nov. 17. Dost\u00e1l \u00a0has 11 of the Ducks\u2019 16 victories, including that one, but Husso has also had a winning record at 2-1-0.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s huge to have all the goalies giving us a chance to win any night,\u201d captain Radko Gudas told Victory+ following the win over the Blues. \u201c(Husso) was [standing] on his head, and he was a big reason why we won.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two other significant factors were Pavel Mintyukov\u2019s first multipoint performance of this campaign and six-for-six night for the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
Mintyukov has responded strongly to his string of three healthy scratches. He logged a season-high 21:15 in his first game back, then in his past three appearances he has two goals and three points.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s feeling better and better since he stepped [back] in,\u201d Gudas said of 2022\u2019s 10th overall pick. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t look back, he wants to be in the lineup every night, he wants to play big minutes and he wants to play important minutes as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
After deploying some of their top offensive players as a potential counterattack weapon shorthanded, the Ducks pulled back from that strategy, which had produced mixed results. Leo Carlsson, Jackson LaCombe and Troy Terry all played marginal minutes \u2013 or, more aptly, seconds \u2013 down a man Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe changed our penalty-killing units a bit,\u201d Anaheim coach Joel Quenneville told reporters. \u201cWe got through some kills. They had some good looks, they had some dangerous misses, but you get off to a start like that with the new units getting out there, I thought there were some good things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since their last meeting with the Ducks, the Mammoth got former Kings defenseman Sean Durzi back but nearly lost their leading scorer.<\/p>\n
Logan\u00a0Cooley left Saturday\u2019s game against St. Louis after receiving what appeared to be a knee-on-knee hit. Though the worst was feared, Cooley played Monday against San Jose after his diagnosis of a quad contusion turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three-Mile Island.<\/p>\n
Utah at Ducks<\/p>\n
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday<\/p>\n
Where: Honda Center<\/p>\n
TV: TNT, truTV, HBO Max<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Ducks returned from their split of a Midwestern back-to-back set and geared up to host the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-78806","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\/78806","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=78806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}