{"id":523298,"date":"2026-03-26T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/523298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:10:04","slug":"the-ducks-beat-the-canucks-5-3-as-mikael-granlund-scores-2-goals-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/523298\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ducks beat the Canucks 5-3 as Mikael Granlund scores 2 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mason McTavish and Troy Terry also scored for the Ducks, while John Carlson had three assists and Lukas Dostal stopped 27 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim grabbed a 2-1 lead in the second period, only to see Vancouver rally and tie the game twice before McTavish scored the winner at the 5:45 mark of the third.<\/p>\n<p>Jake DeBrusk, Brock Boeser and Drew O\u2019Connor scored for the Canucks, while Filip Hronek and Elias Pettersson each contributed a pair of assists. Kevin Lankinen made 29 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson\u2019s second assist of the night marked the 500th regular-season point of his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim remains atop the Pacific Division with a five-point cushion on the second-place Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas returned to the lineup after serving <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/radko-gudas-suspension-matthews-919ef1b88367fe8b1f4a0a6c293886b8\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a five-game suspension;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a five-game suspension&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a five-game suspension<\/a> for the knee-on-knee hit on Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The blow left Matthews with a torn knee ligament that required <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/auston-matthews-injured-toronto-maple-leafs-a566ebcb4e4f23ca33472a76ce9563e3\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:season-ending surgery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;season-ending surgery&quot;}\" class=\"link \">season-ending surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks got solid play from their special teams. DeBrusk and Boeser each scored power-play goals, and the penalty kill weathered a 95 second five-on-three before conceding Granlund\u2019s goal late in a penalty to defenseman Elias Pettersson.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks fell behind 1-0 in the opening frame, then outshot Vancouver 14-12 and scored a pair of goals over a 2:24 span.<\/p>\n<p>McTavish got his first goal in 15 games. He buried his 14th goal of the season at the 5:45 mark of the third period, blasting a one-timer over Lankinen\u2019s glove from the faceoff dot to give the Ducks a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson tallied his 500th regular-season point in his 533rd game. Thomas Gradin is the lone Canuck to hit the milestone faster, doing so in 529 games.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: Visit Calgary on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks: Host Los Angeles on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[10954,2210,233,5292,532,1020,305,895,1739,146,2318,4238,5,7747,281,1538,793,3041,3043,1271,4,9464,1554,31,3689,893,27],"class_list":["post-523298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim-ducks","tag-alex-killorn","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheimducks","tag-auston-matthews","tag-british-columbia","tag-brock-boeser","tag-calgary","tag-ducks","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-elias-pettersson","tag-filip-hronek","tag-hockey","tag-jake-debrusk","tag-john-carlson","tag-kevin-lankinen","tag-los-angeles","tag-lukas-dostal","tag-mason-mctavish","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-nhl","tag-radko-gudas","tag-the-ducks","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-troy-terry","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116293994790653753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523298","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=523298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}