Canucks 6, Ducks 5 (OT): Two Empty-Net Goals, Then Hronek at 4:49

October 27, 2026 - Anaheim - Honda Center had 5-2 with 7:37 left. Then Jamie Oleksiak scored. Then Vancouver pulled the goalie, and Jonathan Lekkerimaki scored twice in 49 seconds. Overtime went to a 5-on-3. Filip Hronek one-timed it with 11 seconds left. A 10-game losing streak ended in a building that had already started to leave.

The Vancouver Canucks beat the Anaheim Ducks 6-5 in overtime. Vancouver is 3-10-1 after 0-9-1. Anaheim is 5-6-1, six losses in seven (1-5-1). Shots were 33-23 Vancouver. Lekkerimaki, Leevi Merilainen, Liam Ohgren, Jeff Malott, Sam Colangelo, Jamie Oleksiak, Linus Karlsson, Tristan Luneau, Tim Washe, and Noah Warren are not seeded on AthX player pages, so those names stay unlinked.

Hronek had the overtime winner and an assist. Lekkerimaki scored twice and added an assist. Brock Boeser had a goal and two assists. Elias Pettersson had two assists. Ohgren scored. Merilainen stopped 18 of 23. A.J. Greer scored twice. Leo Carlsson and Malott each had a goal and an assist. Jackson LaCombe had three assists. Lukas Dostal stopped 27 of 33.

Own goals, then 4-1, then the third that would not die

Greer opened it at 15:52 of the first. He tried to center to Washe. The puck went off Hronek's stick and in. LaCombe and Colangelo on the play.

Vancouver tied it at 6:36 of the second when Ohgren's centering pass for Zeev Buium went off Luneau's skate. Linus Karlsson had the other assist.

Malott tipped LaCombe 30 seconds later. 2-1. Beckett Sennecke deflected Cutter Gauthier on the power play at 15:44. 3-1. Carlsson pushed a rebound over at 18:24 after another long rebound off Buium. 4-1. Malott and Luneau the assists.

Boeser cut it to 4-2 at 11:40 of the third. Alex Killorn tried to swat it away. The puck hit Boeser's chest and went in, the NHL recap said. Unassisted.

Greer answered 43 seconds later, a tip of Colangelo from the point. 5-2 at 12:23. That is where most 0-9-1 teams go away. Manny Malhotra told NHL.com they never want to be that team.

Oleksiak scored at 12:54, a slap from above the hash marks. Boeser and Pettersson. 5-3.

Extra attacker, 49 seconds, 5-on-3

Merilainen came out. Lekkerimaki scored at 17:14, unassisted, extra attacker on. He scored again at 18:03 from above the left circle through a screen. Pettersson and Hronek. 5-5. Malhotra told NHL.com Lekkerimaki is elite at getting it off and picking corners. Joel Quenneville told NHL.com they still had a chance to stabilize after the first one, then an icing and a turnover.

Overtime went 5-on-3. Hronek scored at 4:49, 11 seconds left. Boeser and Lekkerimaki. Vancouver 6-5.

Mikael Granlund told NHL.com that cannot happen, and that it is unacceptable. Quenneville called it a terrible loss and said 5-2 should have been sealed. Boeser told NHL.com he hopes this turns a corner, and that they played better the last two games in spurts.

The NHL recap said Vancouver is 9-2-0 in its last 11 against Anaheim. Carlsson's goal was the 65th of his NHL career, past Lucas Raymond for second-most by a Swede before age 22, behind Mats Sundin (83). Sennecke has a goal in four straight home games and 30 goals in 94 games, fourth-fastest in Ducks history behind Paul Kariya (63), Bobby Ryan (81), and Dustin Penner (92).

AthX Engine on a 6-5 that paid the extra attacker

AthX Engine (our projection and scoring system) scored Lekkerimaki at 12.90 (two goals, one assist, four shots). Boeser is 12.60. Greer is 9.70. LaCombe is 9.60. Hronek is 8.20 with the power-play bonus. Carlsson is 7.10. Pettersson is 6.20. Merilainen's win, 18 saves, and five goals against land at 4.20. Extra-attacker goals still count as goals. Dostal's overtime loss is 4.10 on 27 saves.

Vancouver's team line is 20.20. Anaheim's overtime loss is 11.00.

Fantasy points measure the box. Price is what traders will pay for a club that was 0-9-1 at 5-2, and for a Ducks group that had the game won. They are not the same number.

Track Hronek, Boeser, LaCombe, and both clubs on the marketplace. Vancouver visits San Jose on Thursday. Buffalo visits Anaheim that night.

*Sources: AP recap (ESPN), ESPN box score, NHL.com recap, NHL.com scoreboard, ESPN NHL scoreboard. AthX Engine fantasy points scored from NHL gamecenter box 2026020197. Information only; not financial advice.*