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02/01 23:33 CST Chris Kreider scores 2 goals, Ducks beat slumping Golden
Knights 4-3 to sweep season series
Chris Kreider scores 2 goals, Ducks beat slumping Golden Knights 4-3 to sweep
season series
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) --- Chris Kreider scored two goals, Lukas Dostal made 27
saves and the Anaheim Ducks swept their three-game season series with the Vegas
Golden Knights with a 4-3 victory on Sunday night.
Cutter Gauthier scored and Ryan Poehling added an empty-net goal for the Ducks.
Anaheim earned its eighth victory in 10 games overall despite nearly blowing an
early 3-0 lead during a third period dominated by Vegas.
Mitch Marner and Ivan Barbashev scored goals in their third straight games for
the Golden Knights, who have lost five straight and seven of eight. Vegas has
gone on two five-game skids since Christmas, with an 8-2-0 surge sandwiched
between them.
Tomas Hertl scored with 6 seconds to play and Adin Hill stopped 19 shots for
Vegas.
Kreider put Anaheim up 2-0 with his first multigoal game since Nov. 6 for the
Ducks, who acquired him last June from the New York Rangers.
He opened the scoring late in the first when a puck from Poehling hit his leg
and went in. He tipped home his 19th goal early in the second.
Gauthier scored his 24th goal a few minutes later, beating Hill at the near
post for Anaheim's fifth power-play goal in five games.
Marner took advantage of a lucky deflection when Mark Stone's pass from behind
the net ricocheted off two Ducks and went straight to him.
Vegas took control in the third period, and Barbashev tapped home a stationary
puck in the crease after Dostal couldn't smother Jack Eichel's shot.
Anaheim right wing Troy Terry returned from an 11-game absence with an
upper-body injury, and center Mason McTavish also returned after missing five
games.
The Ducks had their eighth consecutive sellout as they returned from a
five-game road trip to begin a nine-game homestand. Anaheim doesn't play
another road game until March 10.
Up next Golden Knights: Host Vancouver on Wednesday. Ducks: Host Seattle on Tuesday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL
Up next Golden Knights: Host Vancouver on Wednesday. Ducks: Host Seattle on Tuesday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL
