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Recap: Klingberg, Strome Guide Ducks to Comeback 3-2 OT Win over Detroit

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John Klingberg tied the game with 46.2 seconds left in regulation and Ryan Strome buried the overtime winner, giving the Ducks a 3-2 comeback victory over the Detroit Red Wings tonight at Honda Center.

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With the win, Anaheim improved to 5-10-1 on the season and 3-4-0 on home ice. All five of the Ducks’ wins this season have come beyond regulation, three of which concluded in overtime.

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Klingberg, Strome and Mason McTavish scored for Anaheim. Trevor Zegras and Cam Fowler each tallied two assists.

John Gibson stopped 31-of-33 Detroit shots for his third win of the season. Gibson is now four victories from matching Guy Hebert for second-most in Ducks history.

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Ducks forward Sam Carrick made his season debut in the win, tallying four hits in 4:38 of ice time.

Jonatan Berggren and Michael Rasmussen scored for the Red Wings, who fell to 7-5-4 on the season and 2-4-1 away from Little Caesars Arena. Ville Husso made 27 saves.

After a thoroughly questionable interference call on Carrick early in the opening period, which Red Wings defenseman Filip Hronek seemed to sell with a quite willing fall to the ice, Detroit took the night’s first lead on a power-play goal. Hronek took a shot from the point, hoping to get it through traffic in front but had his bid blocked up high by Colton White. Unfortunately for the home side, the deflection bounced right to Berggren, who lifted it home before Gibson could slide to the far side of his crease.

The goal marked the first of Berggren’s NHL career in his third game. The Swedish winger tallied 64 points in 70 American Hockey League games last season, his first in North America.

Second-year winger Lucas Raymond grabbed the secondary assist and now has points in four straight games (2-2=4). Five of Raymond’s 10 points this season have come on the power play.

The early goal continued a troubling early-season trend for Anaheim on the penalty kill. The Ducks snapped a nine-game streak of conceding a power-play goal Saturday, but have now allowed 21 on the season, tied for most in the NHL.

Anaheim responded late in the frame with a power-play tally of their own, pulling even on McTavish’s second goal of the season. As the Ducks worked the puck around the perimeter of the zone, it eventually came to Fowler in the middle of the ice, where he turned and slid a pass to Henrique in the right faceoff circle for a one-timer. Husso denied Henrique’s bid with the blocker but could not corral the rebound, which McTavish quickly buried from the low slot to tie the game.

Video: DET@ANA: McTavish scores PPG in 1st period

McTavish has 2-6=8 points in 16 games this season. He ranks tied for fourth among NHL rookies in scoring and tied for fifth in assists.

Henrique pushed his point streak to four games (3-1=4) with an assist.

It appeared that 1-1 score would last into the third period, but Detroit beat the buzzer in the middle frame when Rasmussen walked out from behind the net, spun away from trouble and tucked a wrist shot over Gibson’s glove to put the Red Wings ahead with 35 seconds to play in the period.

Rasmussen’s goal was his first since opening night, when he tallied a career-high three points. The former top-ten pick registered a career-best 15-12=27 points in 80 NHL games last season.

Anaheim twice came inches from tying the game on a third-period power play, but McTavish and Zegras each hit the post in a span of five seconds, keeping Detroit ahead.

The Ducks would pepper the Red Wings net for the remainder of regulation, nearly tying the game on multiple occasions, but it would take until the final minute to break through for the tying goal. Klingberg took a pass at center ice, pausing for a moment to find a shooting lane before firing an attempt that snuck through bodies in front of Husso, hit the goaltender’s glove and trickled over the line, evening the score at two with 46.2 seconds left in regulation.

Video: DET@ANA: Klingberg fires a shot through traffic

Late in a back-and-forth five minute overtime session, Zegras and Strome teamed up to earn Anaheim the extra standings point. After a failed Detroit clearing attempt hit Strome, the first-year Duck played catch with Zegras across the Detroit crease, with Strome slamming the puck home on the return feed to clinch a 3-2 Anaheim win.

Video: DET@ANA: Strome tucks in a return pass for OT winner

With two assists on the night, Zegras notched his fifth multi-point game of the season. He ranks second among team leaders in scoring (7-8=15) and assists, and leads the club in goals.

The overtime winner was the third of Strome’s career, his first a Duck and his first since the 2018-19 campaign. Strome has collected 5-6=11 points in his first 16 games with Anaheim. 

The Ducks begin a three-game road trip Thursday night in Winnipeg.





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