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<\/p>\nAnaheim\u2019s 25th comeback win is one off the franchise record set in 2013-14.<\/p>\n
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Their 11th third-period comeback win leads the NHL.<\/p>\n
Anaheim also tops the league with 17 wins in games decided in overtime, versus just four losses.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain we magically tied it late and we scored late, late in overtime. We\u2019ll take it, but I still think it would be nice to clean some things up,\u201d said Quenneville, in his first year behind the Ducks bench.<\/p>\n
Granlund signed a three-year, US$21 million deal with Anaheim last summer as a free agent.<\/p>\n
He is heating up now after returning from the Olympics injured and missing the first six games after the break.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took a while to get his health back,\u201d said Quenneville. \u201cThen he got going a little bit and he\u2019s back to where he was when he carried our team for some stretches of games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Granlund\u2019s 19 goals in 48 games ranks him fifth on the team, despite missing 23 games over the course of the season to injury.<\/p>\n
Trailing 2-1 with less than four minutes left in the third period, Anaheim tied it on the power play. John Carlson\u2019s slap shot was stopped, but Devin Cooley\u2019s rebound went right to Granlund at the side of the net and he buried it from a sharp angle.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s so good, obviously, so talented,\u201d said Ducks defenceman, Jackson LaCombe, praising Granlund. \u201cHis compete and work ethic, it shows every night, and he\u2019s got so much experience, and obviously making plays like that is huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the guidance of Quenneville, second on the NHL\u2019s all-time coaching wins list behind Scotty Bowman, the Ducks are looking to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in eight seasons.<\/p>\n
Down to 10 games to go and riding a four-game winning streak, the Ducks are up five points on Edmonton and seven on Vegas. They also have one game in hand on both.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst place, we\u2019re excited about being there,\u201d said Quenneville. \u201cOur focus at the beginning of the year was we wanted to be a playoff team, and if we get to be a playoff team, let\u2019s finish as high as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anaheim hasn\u2019t finished higher than sixth in the Pacific the past seven seasons. Last year, they ended up 21 points back of Edmonton and 30 behind Vegas.<\/p>\n
The Ducks face Edmonton on Saturday as they\u2019ll wrap up their Western Canada road trip with a big showdown at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust gotta be ready to play from the start,\u201d said Lacombe. \u201cTalented team, and we\u2019re both in the in the race for the top of the Pacific, so it\u2019s going to be a huge battle to get those points.\u201d<\/p>\n
Granlund looks forward to the test against the Stanley Cup finalists of the past two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be a fun, fun game. Big game,\u201d said Granlund. \u201cWe\u2019re all excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Granlund is the second player in Ducks history to score multiple hat tricks in his first season with the team, following Teemu Selanne (two in 1995-96).<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 27, 2026.<\/p>\n
Darren Haynes, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim\u2019s 25th comeback win is one off the franchise record set in 2013-14. Their 11th third-period comeback win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-525461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116300593328036018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525461","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=525461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}