Beckett Sennecke had four assists and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 on November 4, 2026, in a game driven by special teams. Anaheim scored four special-teams goals, went 3-for-3 on the power play and added a short-handed goal early in the second period.
The result put Sennecke at the center of a night that showed how far the Ducks' power play has come. He said the group now expects success each time it goes out with the extra man, a sharp turn from last season, when Anaheim fought through power-play struggles for much of the year.
That confidence showed up in the numbers. The Ducks entered the game with a 38 per cent efficiency rate on the power play, the league's best mark, and they had scored 10 power-play goals on 12 chances over their previous three games. Cutter Gauthier added two power-play goals and an even-strength goal in the third period, and his hat trick made him the first player in Anaheim's history to post back-to-back hat tricks. He also became the first NHL player to score multiple power-play goals in three straight games.
For Vancouver, the warning signs were there and did not matter. Jake DeBrusk said special teams decided the game, and the Canucks still gave up three power-play goals and a short-handed goal after entering with a penalty kill sitting second last in the NHL at 63.2 per cent. DeBrusk scored twice, including once on the power play, but Anaheim's pace on the man advantage kept turning every Vancouver mistake into a goal against.
What stands out now is not just that Sennecke had four assists or that Anaheim won by one. It is that the Ducks' power play no longer looks like a support act. If Anaheim keeps producing at this rate, every opponent will have to treat one missed assignment as enough to decide the night.
