ANAHEIM — The Ducks returned to Honda Center for the first time since April and earned their first victory of the preseason on Monday night, making light work of the Utah Mammoth in a 6-1 win.
Drew Helleson contributed a goal and two assists, matching the point total of defense partner Jackson LaCombe’s three-assist evening. Matthew Phillips deposited two goals while Troy Terry produced two primary assists. Beckett Sennecke, Ryan Strome and Ross Johnston each picked up a goal. Petr Mrázek had 25 saves.
Dylan Guenther had a goal for Utah. Karel Vejmelka started the game, allowing three goals on 17 shots through 40 minutes before being replaced by Jaxson Stauber, the son of former Kings goalie Robb Stauber, who ceded three more.
The opening 20 minutes brought the game’s first penalty, taken by Olen Zellweger and killed by the Ducks; its first fight, won by Utah’s Montana Onyebuchi against Judd Caufield; and the opening goal, scored by Helleson.
Terry drew a crowd toward the middle of the ice and dished to the left dot for Helleson, who swept a shot through traffic and past Vejmelka, with 2:55 left in the period.
After a power play for each side in the middle frame, the Ducks cracked the game open with a pair of goals that came 68 seconds apart, at the 4:10 and 5:18 marks.
Helleson was paired with his friend since childhood, LaCombe, presumably with Helleson being the stay-at-home partner for the Ducks’ leading scorer from the blue line last year. But it was Lacombe swiping a simple, direct pass to Helleson, who deked through two defenders and delivered the puck to Phillips for a redirection goal.
Last year’s No. 3 overall draft pick, Sennecke, extended the Ducks’ edge to 3-0. Another lottery pick, Leo Carlsson, twice impeded Utah’s progress up the ice. He and Tyson Hinds got the puck ahead to Sennecke with a step on two defenders for a hard drive to the net that allowed him to finish in tight.
On the faceoff following Sennecke’s goal, Noah Warren fought for the second time in two days, squaring off with Curtis Douglas after taking on the Kings’ Samuel Helenius on Sunday. Tyson Hinds took on Utah’s Ben McCartney in the third scrap of the evening, early in the third period.
Utah also put up at least something of a fight on the scoreboard at 14:48 of the second period, when Guenther glided toward Mrázek at a sharp angle and snuck the puck off his backhand and into the net.
The Ducks extended their lead to 4-1, 5:33 into the third period. Again it was Terry buzzing around the offensive zone, this time flicking the puck toward the net for a deflection goal by Strome.
At 9:18, Johnston tipped Jan Myšák’s shot for a redirection tally of his own, and with 5:53 to play Phillips tacked on his second goal, this one coming off the rush.
More to come on this story.
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