Cutter Gauthier recorded his second straight hat trick and the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 at Rogers Arena on Tuesday.
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Cutter Gauthier became the first player in Anaheim Ducks history to record back-to-back hat tricks, leading the Ducks to a 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena on Tuesday.
Anaheim struck early on the power play. Laurent Brossoit made 19 saves in his second straight start since being called up from San Diego on Saturday, while Vancouver goalie Kevin Lankinen finished with 17 saves.
The Ducks took a 1-0 lead at 4:04 of the first period when Mikael Granlund scored on their first power-play shot, one-timing a Sennecke pass from the low left hash marks. Vancouver tied it 1-1 at 6:04 on a power play, when Marco Rossi fed Liam Ohgren for an open-net finish.
Gauthier then extended Anaheim’s lead. At 17:07 of the first period, he scored on the power play to make it 2-1, and at 18:25 of the first period he added his second power-play goal to put the Ducks up 4-2.
Leo Carlsson made it 3-1 at 2:58 of the second period on a short-handed rush, and Linus Karlsson pulled the Canucks closer at 8:17 with a goal that followed a play started by Drew O’Connor.
In the third period, Gauthier completed the hat trick at 4:11 to make it 5-2. Jake DeBrusk then scored twice in the late stages, cutting the deficit to 5-3 at 5:30 and 5-4 at 9:34, but Vancouver could not complete the comeback.
Sennecke finished with a career-high four assists, with all four described as primary, including the passes that led to each of Gauthier’s three goals. Ducks coach Joel Quenneville called a timeout after DeBrusk’s second goal in the third.
NOTES from the game included that Ducks defenceman Jackson LaCombe had two assists to extend his assist streak to seven games, tying Francois Beauchemin (2005-06) for the second-longest streak by a Ducks defenceman behind Scott Niedermayer’s eight-game run in 2006-07. Vancouver defenceman Tom Willander was a late scratch with a lower-body injury sustained during the morning skate, and there was no update following the game.
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