The Anaheim Ducks (9-3-1) came back from a two-goal deficit in the first period to defeat the Dallas Stars (7-4-3) Thursday evening 7-5 at American Airlines Center.
Wyatt Johnston, Tyler Seguin, Mikko Rantanen and Roope Hintz scored for the Stars. Jake Oettinger made 17 saves.
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Chris Kreider, Ian Moore, Cutter Gauthier, Olen Zellweger, Leo Carlsson and Mason McTavish scored for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal made 21 saves.
Summary of the game
Johnston capped off a great power play for the Stars with a quick one-timer in the middle of the game after a pass from Rantanen that beat Dostal for the first goal of the game.
Johnston doubled the Stars’ lead at 16:18 with another power play goal, this time on a Miro Heiskanen shot that was barely tipped by Johnston but counted for his second goal of the night and his ninth of the season.
It took just 76 seconds into the second period for the Ducks to get on the board with a power play goal of their own. Kreider broke out on the rush along the left boards and beat Oettinger’s blocker side.
Moore tied the game 92 seconds later with his first career NHL goal. Ryan Poehling sent a perfect pass across the crease and Moore scored the equalizer.
Seguin restored the lead for Dallas with a breakaway goal that went just under Dostal’s glove. Heiskanen started the game with a turnover in the defensive zone, and Sam Steel sent a perfect pass up the middle to send Seguin in on a breakaway.
The second period chaos continued as Gauthier tied the game again after Alex Killorn created a turnover in the neutral zone, sent it to Gauthier, and Gauthier’s shot from the right circle trickled through Oettinger for his eleventh goal of the season.
Zellweger scored his first goal of the season with a power play goal off an accidental cross-ice pass from Beckett Sennecke that took Oettinger out of position and led to a wide open net for Zellweger. After starting the period two goals down, the Ducks entered the third with a 4-3 lead.
Kreider doubled that lead 16 seconds into the third, with a tip-in at the top of the crease on a Drew Helleson point shot.
Rantanen answered at 1:50 of the period with another power-play goal, this time with Rantanen tapping a shot into the open net off a nifty cross pass from Johnston.
With all the power play goals scored by both teams, it was a shorthanded goal from Carlsson that restored Anaheim’s two-goal lead.
At 16:39, the Stars cut the deficit to one with Rantanen’s shot from the right circle that deflected off Hintz and in.
McTavish scored an empty-netter at 18:07 to seal the 7-5 victory for the Ducks.
The Stars outscored the Ducks 25-24 and went 3-for-5 on the power play. The Ducks went 2-for-5 with the man advantage.
Next
Both teams will be back in action on Saturday. The stars are in Nashville to beat the Predatorsand the Ducks are in Las Vegas takes on the Golden Knights.
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