ANAHEIM — The Ducks spotted the Vancouver Canucks two goals on Wednesday night and never fully recovered to take a lead, falling 5-4 at Honda Center.
Jackson LaCombe contributed a goal and two assists, Cutter Gauthier had a goal and an assist and Leo Carlsson and Mason McTavish also scored for the Ducks. Petr Mrázek got the nod in net, making 23 of 27 saves with top goalie Lukáš Dostál unavailable (shoulder, day-to-day).
Linus Karlsson, Evander Kane, Conor Garland and Max Sasson each scored for Vancouver before Drew O’Connor tacked on an empty-netter, with Sasson chipping in an assist. Tom Wallinder and Filip Hronek had two assists apiece. Nikita Tolopilo stopped 37 shots in his first NHL appearance of the season.
Gauthier scored off a redirection of a LaCombe pass 6.3 seconds before the final horn, leaving the Ducks short a goal.
O’Connor had scored from the red line with 1:52 to play, after Sasson scored from in tight, one of three Canucks who outnumbered Drew Helleson at the net with 4:02 showing on the clock.
Mrázek’s glove save on Jake DeBrusk with 8:41 still to play nearly proved pivotal when Frank Vatrano stole the puck and darted off on a partial breakaway, though he was unable to slip the puck through the 6-foot-6 Tolopilo’s five hole.
The Ducks moved back within a goal by scoring with 3:41 remaining in the second period, six seconds after a Karlsson penalty had expired. They then leveled the contest off a counterattack with 1:26 left in the stanza.
LaCombe’s alert backhanded chip up to McTavish sent him and Beckett Sennecke off on a break, with McTavish giving up the puck to Sennecke, whose silky return pass served up McTavish’s fifth goal of the season on a velvet pillow.
Carlsson flicked in his 12th goal off his backhand to cap a sequence where he generated a juicy rebound for Troy Terry, who hit the post yet again, banking the puck off the iron and into the slot for Carlsson.
Vancouver went up 3-1 at the 9:04 mark off a stunning effort by Garland. He took the puck from Terry and moved it to Brock Boeser, who curled and returned the puck to Garland. Garland then undressed Helleson with a show-and-go move before deking from forehand to backhand to lift a shot over Mrázek’s pad.
A mere nine seconds passed in the middle frame before the Ducks halved their deficit, marking the third-fastest goal to begin a period in franchise history, per the NHL.
Having carried over a power play through the first intermission, the Ducks won the faceoff at center ice and attacked up the left-wing boards to draw three penalty killers. That opened space for the trailing LaCombe, who stepped into a shot for his third goal of the season, all coming in his past five appearances.
In the first period, multiple promising chances for the Ducks twice meant a Vancouver goal was quick to follow.
Terry came close to scoring shorthanded, dinging the post, and fanned on a follow-up bid not long before Kane cashed in the power play, 11:47 after the opening draw. He adjusted his angle and flicked a wrist shot to the far side from high in the left circle.
The Ducks had an odd-man rush and a regrouping that saw them storm the Canucks’ net shortly before Karlsson pounced on a puck that caromed off the end boards to finish at the side of the net, 9:49 into the contest.
Up next for the Ducks is Friday’s Freeway Faceoff, when they’ll host the Kings in a matinee.
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