The Ducks got it right Saturday, turning up their energy and producing a cathartic victory in the finale of their three-game trip after two lopsided losses.
They hardly looked like the same team that was routed Thursday by the Edmonton Oilers and Wednesday by the Calgary Flames.Saturday, the Ducks won numerous battles for loose pucks, passed with a crispness that was lacking in their previous two games and skated purposefully to the front of the Canucks’ net while building a 5-0 lead by the opening minutes of the second period, chasing goalie Thatcher Demko.
“We were really clean with our passing,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. “We were very direct to the net. We just wanted to get pucks there. We didn’t care how they got there, and with bodies going there. We wanted to be physical. We were able to check all three of those boxes.” Terry scored his team-leading 26th goal of the season 57 seconds into the game and the Ducks were well on their way to ending a four-game winless streak . Deslauriers, Rickard Rakell , Adam Henrique and Sam Steel also scored.
Jaroslav Halak replaced Demko after Steel’s goal 4:20 into the second and the Canucks managed to generate some momentum, with Tanner Pearson and Elias Pettersson scoring to cut the Ducks’ lead to 5-2. Henrique’s second goal of the period made it 6-2. Trevor Zegras was initially credited with the Ducks’ sixth goal, but Henrique was rightly given the goal after the stat crew took another look at the play. Zegras assisted on the goal, which blunted the Canucks’ comeback, his third of the game. He also set up goals by Rakell and Steel.Conor Garland and Quinn Hughes then cut it to 7-4 for Vancouver.
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