- Cutter Gauthier scored twice against the Penguins for 12 goals in his last six games
- The Ducks winger had two goals through his first 11 games before the streak started
- Read below for video of both goals and how the run stacks up
Cutter Gauthier scored twice against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday, and that makes it 12 goals in his last six games.
The Ducks winger is up to 14 on the season. Through his first 11 games he had two. The run started Oct. 29 and hasn’t slowed down, with four of the six games turning into multi-goal nights.
The first one came on the power play in the second period. Gauthier snapped a shot home at 6:28 off passes from Mikael Granlund and Jackson LaCombe to make it 2-0 Anaheim, and he didn’t bother looking at the net.
Check out the no-look shot:
Gauthier needed less than three minutes to do it again. He beat Penguins goalie Arturs Silovs with a wrist shot at 9:11, this time at even strength, with Granlund and Beckett Sennecke picking up the assists for a 3-0 lead.
Catch goal number 12:
Gauthier also set up Granlund’s opening goal in the first period, so he had three points before the Ducks took a 3-0 lead into the third.
The streak has been building for a week. He opened it with two against Buffalo, then went back-to-back with hat tricks against Ottawa and Vancouver. After that came a Ducks record nine goals in four games and the go-ahead goal in Calgary on Friday.
Ten of his 14 goals have come with the man advantage, which says plenty about how Anaheim keeps finding him in the right spot.
