The Ducks have been red hot lately. Coming off a successful East Coast skid, winning three of five games, the Ducks have now won five in a row, including impressive wins over the Florida Panthers and Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n
Anaheim was welcomed into the Honda Center on Tuesday as they finished off a three-game homestand against the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. Following a gritty shootout win in Miami a couple of weeks prior, the Ducks completed the sweep at home, winning 7-3.<\/p>\n
Anaheim\u2019s offense continued to shine bright against Florida, with forward Cutter Gauthier scoring his first NHL hat trick in a four-point game. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty special night,\u201d Gauthier said. \u201c[The] Most important thing is we got the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forward Nikita Nesterenko also netted a goal and an assist on the night, while forwards Leo Carlsson and Troy Terry joined in on the action with two assists each.<\/p>\n
The Ducks also showed incredible resilience against Florida and overcame a 3-2 deficit in the second period with five consecutive goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re super confident,\u201d Gauthier said. \u201cWe have a lot of depth, guys buying in in this locker room. There\u2019s no complaining.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ducks then extended their winning streak on Thursday night when they bested the Stars 7-5.<\/p>\n
Forward Chris Kreider continued an impeccable start to the season, scoring two goals. Kreider, a recent free agent signing by the Ducks, has quickly established himself as a stalwart name.<\/p>\n
With captain and defenseman Radko Gudas still out of the lineup, rookie defenseman Ian Moore stepped up for Anaheim, scoring his first-ever NHL goal in Dallas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw we had some speed. [Forward Ryan Poehling] was flying through the neutral zone and [I] tried to support him,\u201d Moore said of his goal. \u201cHe put it right on my tape and [I] tried to bat it on [the] net and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head coach Joel Quenneville was thrilled with his team\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a crazy game,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cThe production across the board, timely goals, getting the power play going, and a couple of nice plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ducks\u2019 defense struggled to stop the Stars for most of the game, however, continuing a poor defensive streak for the team. <\/p>\n
The Stars\u2019 offense received some help from the penalties the Ducks committed, a theme that is becoming quite common. Dallas scored three of their goals on power plays.<\/p>\n
The Ducks will look to maintain their momentum and remain atop the Pacific Division standings as they head to Las Vegas on Saturday to play the second-place Golden Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks have been red hot lately. Coming off a successful East Coast skid, winning three of five…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,3115,44266,176752,1596,1320,1323,176751,77461,28410,293,176750,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-365091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-chris-kreider","11":"tag-cutter-gauthier","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-stars","14":"tag-florida-panthers","15":"tag-ian-moore","16":"tag-joel-quenneville","17":"tag-national-hockey-league","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-radko-gudas","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-tx","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115515458011197698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}