



ANAHEIM — No lead — for or against — is safe when the Ducks are on the ice.
They’ve either overturned or retroceded at least one multi-goal lead in each of their past four games, including a two-tally advantage for the Vancouver Canucks, who they rallied to defeat 5-2 at Honda Center on Thursday night.
Five unanswered goals earned the Ducks their fifth consecutive victory at home, moving them to 8-1-1 in their past 10 games at Honda Center.
For Vancouver, its three-game win streak crashed to a close, leaving three teams within three points or fewer of the Canucks for the final Western wild card. The Ducks sat six points back.
Ryan Strome had a goal and a primary assist. Troy Terry contributed two helpers and an empty-netter. Mason McTavish and Isac Lundeström chipped in two assists apiece. Cutter Gauthier, Frank Vatrano and Jackson LaCombe each netted a goal. Lukáš Dostál held the Ducks in a game wherein he made 23 saves.
Tyler Myers scored a goal and assisted on one by Pius Suter in the first period for Vancouver. Arturs Silovs stopped 20 of 24 shots.
The final period tested Dostál early during a power play, before the Ducks seized control.
Just 4:14 showed on the clock when LaCombe surveyed the slot patiently and roofed a shot that iced the game and got him into double digits for the season. Terry’s 17th goal of the season was launched into an empty net with 2:06 to play, sending the crowd home with a win and free chicken to boot.
In the second period, the Ducks turned the game completely by flipping a two-goal deficit into a one-goal edge at the second intermission, scoring at 5:27, 9:09 and 18:41.
The Ducks’ top line cycled the puck with Terry flicking a low-flying shot that created a rebound for Strome, who found Vatrano for a searing, far-side one-timer from the left faceoff dot. Vatrano’s 18th goal of the year sliced the Ducks’ deficit in half.
In the closing 20 minutes, an early power play for Vancouver tested Dostál, whose robbery of Jake DeBrusk gave the Ducks momentum that carried into a mid-period barrage that Silovs withstood.
They leveled the count when Gauthier, who tied for the game high with four shots on goal Thursday, delivered a counterpunch for his 12th goal of 2024-25. He skated into Lundeström’s lead pass and dashed ahead to rip yet another far-side shot from the left dot.
Strome, who’d been visible all night, gave the hosts their first lead. His timely break into a skating lane and McTavish’s decisive pass synergized perfectly to turn a rush without numbers into a go-ahead goal.
The Ducks buzzed early and fell flat later in the first period, bookending the period with goals against at the 3:17 and 16:52 marks.
The Ducks had the game’s first power play on Thursday. Not only did they fail to convert, but as Myers’ penalty expired, Gauthier tried to jam a puck into the slot, a pass that was effortlessly disrupted to key a counterattack. Myers exited the box, received the puck and wrapped up the rush with a missile from high in the right circle to take a 1-0 lead.