Ducks Beat Penguins 5-2 for Fifth Straight Win: Gauthier Hat Trick Powers Eighth Straight Five-Goal Game
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 in an NHL regular-season game at Honda Center in Anaheim, Orange County, on November 8, for a fifth straight win, as winger Cutter Gauthier recorded a hat trick and an assist for a four-point night.
Anaheim struck first when Mikael Granlund scored at 8:27 of the first period off assists from Gauthier and Jackson LaCombe for a 1-0 lead. Gauthier scored again in the second period to make it 3-0, and the Ducks added their third power-play goal of the game in the third period to go up 4-0. Granlund finished with one goal and three assists, also for four points.
Pittsburgh rallied late in the third period. Kris Letang scored his first goal of the season on a 6-on-4 advantage, and Rickard Rakell cut the deficit to 4-2 with 6:18 remaining. Gauthier then sealed the win with a roughly 170-foot empty-net goal in the final minute to complete his hat trick, his third of the season.
The Penguins outshot the Ducks 34-25, but Anaheim goaltender Laurent Brossoit made 32 saves, while Pittsburgh's Arturs Silovs allowed four goals on 24 shots.
Anaheim improved to 10-7-1 and Pittsburgh fell to 6-10-2. The Ducks have now scored at least five goals in eight straight games, the first team to do so since the 1988-89 Los Angeles Kings and the first in the NHL's salary-cap era. Pittsburgh next visits the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday.
(Source: NHL)
Source: NHL
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Photo: 图：鸭队边锋 Cutter Gauthier 在2024年队内对抗赛中带球（资料照片）。Sewageboy 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Ducks winger Cutter Gauthier in the team's 2024 scrimmage (file photo). Photo by Sewageboy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
