Outdone, outplayed, outmatched
Despite playing their third game in four nights, the Ducks showed no signs of fatigue. Anaheim took a 2-0 lead in the first period before Kyle Connor halved the deficit with his ninth goal of the season. The Ducks restored their two-goal lead before the second intermission and added another on the power play early in the third.
“The start was good. They had some looks, but then we gave up some weird rushes in the second period. I like that we put five, six, seven shifts in a row and it seemed like everyone was on the same page.” said head coach Scott Arniel. “Only our F3 got caught, even our other two attackers got beaten up by their defense. The team transitioned very well and we ended up on the wrong side of people too often.”
Perfetti returns to the line-up
600 points for KFC
With the Ducks up 2-0 early in the second period, Josh Morrissey found Kyle Connor in the slot, and the winger buried his ninth of the season, a goal that also marked his 600th career NHL point. Connor became the 52nd American in league history to reach the milestone, joining Ilya Kovalchuk, Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele as the only players in franchise history to reach the milestone. After doing so in just 627 games, Connor is the second-fastest of that group, trailing only Kovalchuk (579 games) and ahead of Scheifele (667).
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