Takeaways from the Ducks 5-4 OT Loss to the Maple Leafs

After notching four of a possible six standings points on their three-game Western Canadian road trip, the Anaheim Ducks returned to Orange County to host the Toronto Maple Leafs in a game that had a surprising amount of built-up tension heading in. The biggest storyline before the puck dropped was how the Leafs were going to respond to their lack of physical response following the injury to their captain, Auston Matthews, who suffered a season-ending knee injury at the hands of Ducks captain Radko Gudas a few weeks ago. Game #74: Ducks vs.

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Louis Blues on Saturday. Radko Gudas exited the Ducks’ 3-2 OT win against the Calgary Flames on Thursday with a lower-body injury, forcing him to miss the team’s previous game, but he returned for this one. Pavel Mintyukov also missed the Ducks’ last game against the Oilers with a lower-body injury and returned on Monday.

Nathan Guacher, Frank Vatrano, and Drew Helleson served as healthy scratches. Here’s how the Ducks lined up to start this game: Kreider-Carlsson-Terry Killorn-Granlund-Sennecke Viel-Poehling-Gauthier McTavish-Washe-Moore LaCombe-Trouba Mintyukov-Carlson Zellweger-Gudas Ville Husso got the start in this game for the Ducks and saved 23 of the 28 shots he faced. Former Ducks backup netminder Anthony Stolarz opposed him in the Toronto net and stopped 28 of 32.