ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks answered their Game 3 blowout with a 4-3 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night, May 10, 2026, and dragged the second-round series back to 2-2.
Alex Killorn broke the tie with a power-play goal late in the second period, Beckett Sennecke added a goal and an assist, and Ian Moore scored his first career playoff goal as Anaheim snapped back after a 6-2 loss two nights earlier. Cutter Gauthier finished with three assists, Mikael Granlund also scored, and Lukas Dostal made 18 saves. The Ducks’ two power-play goals ended an 0-for-11 skid and came against a Vegas penalty kill that had allowed just one power-play goal in its first nine postseason games.
Killorn called it “a great rebound” and a “good, resilient game,” and said Anaheim played with more urgency after letting Game 3 get away. He said the Ducks did not want to lose two straight at home or fall behind 3-1, and that the group made adjustments after a rough night in which Vegas had everything rolling.
That response mattered because the Ducks are in their first playoff run since 2018, and they came in needing a steadier effort against a Golden Knights team that had won its previous three road games. Anaheim also entered the night tied for the overall playoff lead with 36 goals and 10 power-play scores, but it had to prove it could keep pace when the series tightened and the margin shrank.
Sennecke opened the scoring on the power play with the second man-advantage goal allowed by Vegas in the entire postseason, then scored in his third consecutive game. Howden tied it early in the second period with his seventh goal of the postseason, but Killorn answered late in the frame to put Anaheim back in front. Moore extended the lead early in the third period by recording his first career playoff point on the play, and that goal proved essential when Vegas mounted one last push.
The Golden Knights did get goals from Pavel Dorofeyev and Brett Howden, and Mitch Marner kept driving the offense with three assists after his hat trick in Game 3. Marner now has an NHL-leading and career-best 16 points in the postseason, and Vegas needed every bit of that production after playing without captain Mark Stone because of an undisclosed injury suffered in Game 3. Carter Hart stopped 19 shots for the Golden Knights.
There was still some danger at the end. Tomas Hertl ended a 29-game goal drought with a goal with 1:04 left, cutting the margin to one and forcing Anaheim to survive a tense finish. Joel Quenneville said he thought the Ducks worked hard and did a lot of good things, though he added that it got a little dangerous late. On the other bench, John Tortorella said he was not going to dissect the penalty kill, but pointed to the middle of the game as the turning point, saying Vegas needed to get out of the second period tied 2-2 and did not.
Anaheim also inserted Olen Zellweger for his playoff debut and his first game action since April 7, another sign the Ducks were willing to change the look of the lineup after the Game 3 loss. The switch paid off in a game that showed more pace, more resistance and better work in front of both nets.
Game 5 is Tuesday night in Las Vegas, with Game 6 set for Thursday night back in Anaheim. After this one, the series feels less like a recovery mission and more like a race to see which team can land the next clean punch.
