Gauthier does it again
Cutter Gauthier keeps finding new ways to score. The Anaheim winger notched three goals and an assist overnight as the Ducks beat the Penguins 5-2, their fifth win in a row. It is his third hat trick in five games.
Mikael Granlund got things started at 8:27 of the first period, knocking in a rebound after Gauthier’s point shot was blocked. Granlund finished with a goal and three assists. Gauthier took over in the second. He scored on the power play from the right circle at 6:28, then slipped a wrist shot through Arturs Silovs’ five-hole at 9:11 after Granlund sent him through the slot.
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Pittsburgh pushes late
Tristan Luneau made it 4-0 early in the third on the power play, stretching his point streak to eight games. Kris Letang answered with his first goal of the season, a shot from the point through a screen with Silovs pulled. Rickard Rakell then cut it to 4-2 in six-on-four play off a Sidney Crosby feed.
Gauthier closed the door with an empty-netter at 19:26, his 15th of the year. Laurent Brossoit stopped 32 shots for Anaheim, and Jackson LaCombe added three helpers to extend his assist streak to 10 games. Pittsburgh, playing the second night of a back-to-back, failed to cash in on a 1:37 five-on-three in the second period. Evgeni Malkin had two assists.
A streak matching the league’s best
Gauthier now has 13 goals during a six-game scoring run. That ties Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl and Carolina’s Mark Jankowski for the longest goal streak of the season. For a player on pace like this, the empty-netter was almost a formality.
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