Beckett Sennecke scored with one-tenth of a second left in regulation to tie the game, and Ville Husso stopped all three shootout attempts after making 45 saves, helping the visiting Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night.
Anaheim was short-handed, and Husso had just reached the bench for an extra skater when Sennecke drove to the net. His shot deflected off Pittsburgh defenseman Erik Karlsson and crossed the goal line to tie it 3-3.
Jackson LaCombe and Troy Terry scored in regulation, and Leo Carlsson scored in the shootout for the Ducks, who have won three in a row.
Noel Acciari and Tommy Novak scored, Karlsson had two assists and Arturs Silovs made 25 saves for the Penguins in the opener of a five-game homestand.
Anthony Mantha had given the Penguins a 3-2 lead when he scored on a power play with 3:55 left.
Husso was called for holding the stick of Rutger McGroarty during a scramble in front of the crease and Mantha scored seven seconds into the man-advantage when his attempted pass through the crease went off the stick of Husso and into the net.
Pittsburgh outshot the Ducks 16-8 in the opening period, but could only take a 1-0 lead on the first goal of the season by Acciari at 9:49.
The scoring play began with Acciari winning a faceoff in the Anaheim zone. The puck went to teammate Connor Dewar, who swung and missed but then kicked the puck back to Acciari, who scored with a wrist shot through the legs of Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov from the right circle.
It marked the seventh straight game the Penguins scored a first-period goal, the longest streak in the NHL.
The Ducks began to get their legs moving in the second period and tied it 1-1 at 5:19.
Anaheim won a faceoff in the Pittsburgh zone, and the puck went back to LaCombe along the wall. He drove to the net through the left circle and took a shot from the goal line that squeezed through high on the near side.
The Ducks moved ahead 2-1 at 14:10 of the second when Terry gathered a loose puck in the Pittsburgh zone, and he also scored near side from the bottom of the right circle.
The Penguins tied it 2-2 with 19 seconds left in the second period when Novak banked the puck off the back of Husso from below the goal line on the second rebound try.
–Field Level Media
