Gauthier Hat Trick Leads Ducks Past Penguins 5-2 for Fifth Straight Win
Cutter Gauthier scored three goals and added an assist as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 at Honda Center on Sunday. Mikael Granlund also had four points, and Anaheim won its fifth game in a row.
Key points
- Cutter Gauthier completed a hat trick with an empty net goal late in the third period, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 at Honda Center in Anaheim on Sunday, Nov 8.
- Gauthier finished with 3 goals, 1 assist and 4 points in 18:25 of ice time, with 6 shots on goal.
- Mikael Granlund opened the scoring at 8:27 of the first period, assisted by Gauthier and Jackson LaCombe.
Cutter Gauthier completed a hat trick with an empty net goal late in the third period, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 at Honda Center in Anaheim on Sunday, Nov 8.
Gauthier finished with 3 goals, 1 assist and 4 points in 18:25 of ice time, with 6 shots on goal. It was his third hat trick of the season. Anaheim has won five games in a row.
Anaheim builds a 4-0 lead
Mikael Granlund opened the scoring at 8:27 of the first period, assisted by Gauthier and Jackson LaCombe. The play came exactly as an Anaheim power play expired after Kaedan Korczak's hooking call.
Gauthier made it 2-0 with a power play goal at 6:28 of the second period, assisted by Granlund and LaCombe. The goal extended his goal streak to five games. He scored again at 9:11 of the second, assisted by Granlund and Beckett Sennecke, to make it 3-0.
Tristan Luneau scored a power play goal at 5:12 of the third period, assisted by Alex Killorn and Roger McQueen, to make it 4-0.
Granlund finished with 1 goal, 3 assists and 4 points. LaCombe finished with 3 assists.
Pittsburgh fights back, Gauthier closes it
Kris Letang broke the shutout with a 6-on-4 power play goal at 8:05 of the third period, assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Erik Karlsson. Rickard Rakell scored another 6-on-4 power play goal at 13:42 of the third, assisted by Sidney Crosby and Malkin, to cut the lead to 4-2.
Gauthier then scored into the empty net to complete the hat trick and close the scoring at 5-2.
Laurent Brossoit stopped 32 of 34 shots for Anaheim. Arturs Silovs made 20 saves on 24 shots for Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh outshot Anaheim 34-25 overall. Anaheim went 2-for-4 on the power play and Pittsburgh went 2-for-6. Anaheim led the NHL in home power play percentage at 43 percent before this game.
The win moved Anaheim to 10-7-1. Pittsburgh fell to 6-10-2, and the Penguins have just one win in their last five games.
No direct player or coach quotes were carried in either recap used for this report.
By the numbers
The period scores were Anaheim 1, 2 and 2, and Pittsburgh 0, 0 and 2. Gauthier scored one goal in the second period on the power play, one more in the second at even strength, and the empty net goal in the third. His 4 points matched Granlund for the game high. LaCombe assisted on the first three Anaheim goals, one in the first period and two in the second.
Timeline
- Nov 8, 2026Anaheim beats Pittsburgh 5-2 at Honda Center. Granlund opens the scoring in the first period, Gauthier scores twice in the second, Luneau makes it 4-0 in the third, Letang and Rakell cut the lead to 4-2, and Gauthier completes his hat trick with an empty net goal.