Anaheim Ducks Beat Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2: Cutter Gauthier Records Third Hat Trick in Five Games as Goal Streak Reaches Six
Anaheim, California — The Anaheim Ducks defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 in an NHL regular-season game on November 8, 2026, at Honda Center in Anaheim, extending their winning streak to five games.
Cutter Gauthier scored a hat trick and added an assist for Anaheim, his third hat trick in five games, extending his goal streak to six games. According to NHL.com, Gauthier joined Corey Perry, Frank Vatrano and Teemu Selanne as the only players in franchise history with multiple seasons of three hat tricks. Captain Mikael Granlund had a goal and three assists, Jackson LaCombe recorded three assists to stretch his assist streak to 10 games, Tristan Luneau also scored, and goaltender Laurent Brossoit made 32 saves.
Granlund opened the scoring at 8:26 of the first period as a power play expired. Gauthier scored on the power play at 6:28 of the second and again at 9:11 for a 3-0 lead. After Luneau made it 4-0 in the third, Pittsburgh replied through Kris Letang and Rickard Rakell in 6-on-4 situations, before Gauthier completed his hat trick into an empty net at 19:26 for the 5-2 final. Evgeni Malkin had two assists for Pittsburgh and Arturs Silovs made 20 saves.
Anaheim improved to 10-7-1 and Pittsburgh fell to 6-10-2. This report states the scoring sequence and official statistics only, without commentary; goal times are as given in the NHL.com recap.
(Source: NHL.com game recap, November 9, 2026; cross-checked against the Reuters game report of the same day)
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Source: NHL
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Photo: 安纳海姆本田中心的冰球比赛（资料图）。（Wikimedia Commons）|A hockey game at Honda Center in Anaheim (file photo). (Wikimedia Commons)
