Ducks-Golden Knights Game 4 was a ‘man’s game,’ says Joel Quenneville

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The Anaheim Ducks needed a win on home ice on Sunday night to get back into their Western Conference second-round series with the Vegas Golden Knights, and they found a way to get the job done in Game 4.

The Ducks took a 1-0 lead in the first period and never looked back, eventually winning 4-3 in front of the raucous home crowd at the Honda Center.

The series is now tied 2-2 heading back to Las Vegas for Game 5 on Tuesday. It was a hard-fought contest, with the pair of Pacific Division rivals combining for 61 hits.

“That was a man’s game out there today,” admitted head coach Joel Quenneville, per NHL.com’s Dan Arritt. “We worked hard and I thought we did a lot of good things.”

It was the youngsters leading the charge on Sunday; Beckett Sennecke scored and added an assist, while Cutter Gauthier, who scored 41 goals in the regular season, recorded three assists.

“The first three games, I wasn’t getting enough shots,” Gauthier said. “Tonight was a big emphasis on just trying to get in front of guys, get in front of the goalie and stir some things up.”

Sennecke opened the scoring in the first period, before Knights forward Pavel Dorofeyev responded on a powerplay midway through the frame. Mikael Granlund restored Anaheim’s lead with five minutes remaining.

The teams traded goals in the middle frame, with Brett Howden tying the score before Alex Killorn put one past Carter Hart on the man advantage — assisted by Sennecke and Gauthier — late in the period to go up 3-2.

Defenseman Ian Moore scored the eventual winner early in the third, his first goal of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Although Tomas Hertl made it 4-3 late in regulation, that’s as close as the Golden Knights would get.

It was a critical triumph for the Ducks, who could not have afforded to go back to the strip down 3-1. Now, they’re guaranteed another game at the Honda Center, and they’ll have an opportunity to wrestle back home-ice advantage at T-Mobile Arena in Game 5.

Puck is set to drop on that contest just past 9:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

Ducks-Golden Knights Game 4 was a ‘man’s game,’ says Joel Quenneville

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