Troy Terry scored twice and added an assist while Leo Carlsson scored once in a career-best four-point game to pace the host Anaheim Ducks to a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.
Mason McTavish and Chris Kreider added singles for the Ducks, who have won four of five games.
Goaltender Lukas Dostal made 27 saves.
Lucas Raymond and Alex DeBrincat both netted one goal and one assist for the Red Wings, who had a three-game winning streak snapped.
Goalie John Gibson stopped 27 shots in his return to Anaheim, where he spent the first dozen seasons of his career.
Terry, who is riding a six-game streak in which he has netted 10 points (five goals, five assists), continued holding a hot hand when he opened the scoring at the 4:53 mark. He zipped away on a partial breakaway and buried a top-corner offering shot while holding off the check for his fourth goal of the season.
Raymond scored on a partial breakaway of his own a few minutes later, his third of the campaign, to pull the visitors even at 8:19.
However, Carlsson put the Ducks ahead at 12:24 of the entertaining opening frame. He took the pass as the trailer on a 3-on-2 rush and snapped home a shot from the left circle for his fifth of the year. Carlsson is on a five-game point streak, the longest of his career, in which he has collected three goals and six assists.
A couple of minutes after the Red Wings had a potential goal disallowed because the puck was kicked into the net, McTavish made it a 3-1 game at 6:35 of the second period. McTavish zipped across the high slot to create confusion and space and whipped a high shot on his off wing for his second of the season.
DeBrincat scored for the fourth consecutive game to again make it a one-goal affair, neatly tucking the puck into the cage for his fourth of the season while on the power play. DeBrincat’s point streak is now at five games (four goals, four assists).
But Kreider’s power-play goal — awarded after a lengthy review because Gibson knocked the net off the moorings just before the puck went in — restored Anaheim’s two-goal edge 55 seconds into the third period.
Terry rounded out the scoring with a late empty-net goal.
–Field Level Media
