“We want to get better than what we did last year,” Quenneville said.\u00a0“I thought we made a big move in the numbers last year, from the prior year, and moving at that rate again this year, numbers-wise, percentage-wise, should put us in a better place.”<\/p>\n
Granlund’s winner came after Brad Marchand marked his return to the lineup with the tying goal with Florida’s net empty in the final two minutes, but the Ducks came through when they needed to to earn an important confidence-building win.<\/p>\n
Luneau clocked huge minutes from the Anaheim back end with 26:36 of ice time, trailing only Jackson\u00a0LaCombe at 28:41, showing the stock they put in the rookie to hand him such a monstrous contract at only 22 years old.<\/p>\n
“We played a man’s team tonight, and a man’s game,” Anaheim Head Coach Joel Quenneville said. “They know how to win. They know it doesn’t stop, and it’s 60 minutes of pushing and shoving. You don’t have to be fancy sometimes, just a little protecting of the puck and they’re getting it out of the zone, or in deep, or blocking a shot. All the little things add up, and they know how to win, and that’s why it was such a big win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We want to get better than what we did last year,” Quenneville said.\u00a0“I thought we made a big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":["post-680430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheimducks","tag-ducks","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117396300330583753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680430","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=680430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}