Ducks find their power-play scoring touch and defeat Vegas to even playoff series
Beckett Sennecke and Alex Killorn each score on the power play and the Ducks hold off a last-minute surge from the Vegas Golden Knights to win 4-3 in Game 4.
Ducks forward Alex Killorn, right, scores past Vegas goalie Carter Hart during the second period of the Ducks' 4-3 win in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals Sunday night at Honda Center. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The Ducks ’ second-round playoff showdown with the Vegas Golden Knights has become a best-of-three series.
With a 4-3 victory Sunday before a raucous sold-out crowd at the Honda Center, the Ducks evened the series 2-2 as it heads back to Las Vegas for Game 5 on Tuesday. But it wasn’t easy, with the Golden Knights twice rallying from one-goal deficits, only to see the Ducks answer each time. And the Ducks’ power play, so lethal in the team’s first-round win over Edmonton and so ineffective in the first three games of this series, finally found a spark, scoring goals in each of the first two periods.
The Ducks' goals came from Beckett Sennecke , Mikael Granlund , Alex Killorn and Ian Moore . Pavel Dorofeyev, Brett Howden and Tomas Hertl scored for Vegas. Read more: 'That's in the garbage can.
' Ducks can't stop Mitch Marner, Golden Knights in Game 3 loss The Ducks were fast and physical in the early going, playing with an urgency they lacked in their Game 3 loss. They also did a better job protecting the puck and that paid off with the team’s first power-play goal of the series 8:43 into the first period. Vegas had killed 11 penalties against the Ducks and 21 in a row dating back to Game 3 in their first-round series against Utah.