{"id":388255,"date":"2026-01-03T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388255\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:12:31","slug":"ducks-cant-hold-back-wild-as-losing-streak-grows-to-five-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388255\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks can’t hold back Wild as losing streak grows to five games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Danila Yurov<\/a> scored twice, Quinn Hughes<\/a> had four assists and the Minnesota Wild beat the Ducks 5-2<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Kirill Kaprizov, Yakov Trenin and Nico Sturm also scored for the Wild, who earned a point for the fifth straight game (3-0-2). Filip Gustavsson stopped 26 shots.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 22-4-4 in its last 30 games, and 8-1-2 since acquiring Hughes, the 2024 Norris Trophy winner, in a blockbuster with Vancouver on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

Beckett Sennecke<\/a> and Troy Terry<\/a> scored for the Ducks<\/a>, who have lost five straight and nine of 11. Lukas Dostal<\/a> made 29 saves, including 17 in the second period.<\/p>\n

Yurov put the game out of reach when he redirected Hughes\u2019 shot past Dostal for a 4-1 lead 3:21 into the third. Sturm\u2019s shot from the left circle made it 5-1 with 4:58 left.<\/p>\n

Dostal made eight saves during a pair of penalty kills in the first seven minutes of the second, but he caught an unlucky break when the Wild scored on a double-deflection to take a 2-0 lead at the 8:10 mark.<\/p>\n

Hughes, one of eight Minnesota players named to Winter Olympic teams Friday, sent a shot from the blue line that hit Trenin\u2019s stick and Yurov\u2019s right skate before trickling into the net.<\/p>\n

The Ducks grabbed some momentum when Mason McTavish\u2019s faceoff swipe from the left circle landed on the stick of Sennecke, whose snap shot beat Gustavsson stick-side to cut the lead to 2-1. Sennecke leads NHL rookies with 13 goals.<\/p>\n

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But Minnesota pushed it to 3-1 with 5:15 left in the second when Trenin took a pass from Hughes in the right circle and rifled a shot past Dostal.<\/p>\n

Minnesota took advantage of Alex Killorn\u2019s tripping penalty, needing only nine seconds to score on the power play for a 1-0 lead 5:39 into the first. Dostal blocked Hughes\u2019 slap shot from the point, but Kaprizov banged a shot past Dostal after a scramble in front of the net for his 24th goal.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Ducks: at Washington on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danila Yurov scored twice, Quinn Hughes had four assists and the Minnesota Wild beat the Ducks 5-2 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[1199,8478,1739,654,5,537,953,3041,161,38,5280,4,248,1496,5824,1856,11918,162,2834],"class_list":["post-388255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-beckett-sennecke","tag-danila-yurov","tag-ducks","tag-game","tag-hockey","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-lead","tag-lukas-dostal","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nhl","tag-nico-sturm","tag-quinn-hughes","tag-second-period","tag-shot","tag-stick","tag-wild","tag-yakov-trenin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115830872729477561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}