Ducks' storybook season comes to an end with Game 6 loss to Golden Knights
The Vegas Golden Knights jump out to a 3-0 lead and that proves too much for the Ducks to overcome as their season ends.
Vegas players swarm the net in front of Ducks players and goaltender Lukas Dostal during the second period of the Ducks' season-ending loss in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals Thursday at Honda Center. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The carriage has turned back into a pumpkin, the ballgown is once again just tattered clothing and all the horses have gone back to being mice.
The Ducks’ Cinderella run through the NHL playoffs came to an end Thursday in a 5-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series. And the end came well before midnight, with goals by Mitch Marner and Brett Howden in the first 8½ minutes giving Vegas a commanding lead before many in the late-arriving weeknight crowd had made it to their seats at the Honda Center. The Golden Knights will move on to the Western Conference finals with the Colorado Avalanche next week while the Ducks will move on to summer.
But it’s the team’s latest start on the offseason since 2017, the last time the Ducks made it to the second round of the playoffs. So even if the glass slipper didn’t fit this time, the Ducks have reason to celebrate. This team, after all, wasn’t supposed to be at the ball this long.
Fourteen players on its roster had never been to the postseason before; most of them had never even played for a winning team in the NHL before. But the team’s youth and inexperience proved to be a strength, not a weakness. Ducks center Leo Carlsson passes the puck as Vegas' Shea Theodore defends during the second period.
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