The Vancouver Canucks beat the Anaheim Ducks 6-5 in overtime on Tuesday night at Honda Center, scoring four goals to end a 10-game losing streak. Filip Hronek scored the winner on a power play with 11 seconds left in overtime, after Jonathan Lekkerimaki tied the game with two goals in the final three minutes of regulation.
FINAL: Vancouver Canucks 6, Anaheim Ducks 5 (OT). The Canucks comeback win came from 4-1 down after two periods and 5-2 down with 7:37 to play in the third, and it goes down as one of the wildest finishes of the young NHL season: four consecutive Vancouver goals, the tying pair less than a minute apart, and an overtime winner scored on a two-man advantage with the clock almost gone.
Canucks Comeback Win Turns In Seven Wild Minutes
For most of the night, this game was running away from Vancouver. A.J. Greer opened the scoring just over four minutes in, his shot deflecting in off Hronek’s stick, and after Liam Ohgren tied it 1-1 at 6:36 of the second period on a rebound, Anaheim scored 30 seconds later through Jeff Malott and never looked back in the period. Beckett Sennecke made it 3-1 on a power play at 15:44, the puck caroming off his left leg from a Cutter Gauthier shot, and Leo Carlsson extended the lead to 4-1 at 18:24.
The third period started as a trade and ended as a collapse. Brock Boeser pulled Vancouver within 4-2 at 11:40, but Greer answered 43 seconds later, deflecting the puck in from the edge of the crease for his second of the night and a 5-2 lead with 7:37 left. Jamie Oleksiak replied 31 seconds after that to make it 5-3, and then Lekkerimaki took the game over. He beat Lukas Dostal from inside the left circle at 17:14, then scored again at 18:03, a shot through traffic from beyond the left circle with 1:57 left in regulation, to tie a game Vancouver had trailed by three goals less than eight minutes earlier.
Overtime gave the Canucks the opening they needed. Lekkerimaki drew a high-sticking penalty from Sennecke, and Alex Killorn was called for goaltender interference with 27 seconds left, handing Vancouver a two-man advantage. Hronek finished it with 11 seconds remaining, a one-timer from the slot on the power play, with Boeser and Lekkerimaki drawing the assists. The NHL’s own account summed up the finish in real time:
IT WAS 5-2. THE CANUCKS WIN IT 6-5 IN OT THANKS TO FILIP HRONEK! (NHL on X, October 28, 2026)
Lekkerimaki Leads The Canucks Scoring
Lekkerimaki finished with two goals and an assist, and his six goals now lead all Canucks skaters this season. Boeser matched him with a three-point night, a goal and two assists, and Elias Pettersson added two assists of his own. The supporting numbers fit the matchup: Pettersson came into the night with 23 points in 24 career games against Anaheim, Boeser had scored nine career goals against the Ducks before adding another, and Hronek, the overtime scorer, arrived leading the entire NHL in blocked shots with 34.
Head coach Manny Malhotra had talked about exactly this kind of swing before the California trip, in comments published by the team’s official site. “The moment you come off of that pressure, and you allow teams to stay alive and get up the ice in transition, the tide turns,” Malhotra said. On Tuesday his team lived on both sides of that line: Vancouver let the tide turn against it for two periods, then turned it back with the kind of connected, five-man pressure Malhotra has been asking for, scoring four third-period goals on the way to outshooting Anaheim 33-24.
Leevi Merilainen made 18 saves for the win, a quiet line on a night when his team needed every one of them just to stay close enough for the rally to matter. At the other end, Dostal stopped 27 of 33 shots and still took the loss, beaten four times after Greer’s second goal appeared to have settled the game.
Ducks Build The Lead, Then Lose It
Anaheim had real reasons to believe this game was finished. Greer scored twice, Jackson LaCombe collected three assists, and the Ducks got goals from four different skaters while building leads of 4-1 and 5-2. Sennecke’s power-play goal was his seventh of the season, extending a team lead he held coming in, and Carlsson, who led the Ducks with 13 points before puck drop, added to his total in the second-period run.
Instead, the loss is Anaheim’s sixth in its past seven games, and its eighth in nine home games against Vancouver since December 2021. The Ducks, who had snapped their own five-game losing streak on Saturday against Philadelphia, leave the night at 5-6-1 with one point from a game they controlled for 52 minutes. A three-goal lead at home, inside the final eight minutes, is the kind of result that follows a team for weeks.
What The Win Means, And What Comes Next
For Vancouver, the win is the club’s first since October 3, and it lifts the Canucks to 3-10-1. One comeback does not repair a start like that, but it changes the conversation around a group that had lost in every way available through the first month: the streak is over, the young scorer driving the offence has a signature night, and the road trip that looked like a threat becomes an opportunity.
The schedule keeps moving. Vancouver visits the San Jose Sharks on Thursday, then returns home to host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, a game that now carries a little more edge than it did on Tuesday morning. Anaheim hosts the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday, still looking for the win that got away in Anaheim.
