Ducks celebrate Ryan Getzlaf’s 1,000th point with 8th straight win

ANAHEIM — It was a walk similar truthful galore of the others Ryan Getzlaf had made implicit his 17-season NHL career, a cross-ice provender to a streaking teammate that freed him for a changeable and a goal. At the aforesaid time, Getzlaf’s perfectly-directed walk to Cam Fowler was dissimilar each the others.

Getzlaf deftly sent the puck from the close helping to the left, pinballing it disconnected the boards truthful Fowler could skate onto it and, without breaking stride, nonstop it into the nett lone 3:32 into the Ducks’ 3-2 overtime triumph implicit the Washington Capitals connected Tuesday nighttime astatine Honda Center, their eighth consecutive triumph and the 1,000th successful franchise history.

Trevor Zegras won it for the Ducks astatine 4:14 of the five-minute other period.

Earlier, the Ducks leaped from their seat to mob Getzlaf arsenic the Honda Center assemblage roared successful solemnisation of the captain’s 1,000th vocation point. He did it with Ducks royalty successful the house, with Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne coincidentally connected manus to grant longtime enforcement David McNab.

“He’s meant truthful overmuch to the franchise,” Kariya said of the 36-year-old Getzlaf. “He’s been a Duck from the start. Who knows however agelong he’ll play? But he’s been a large person and he’s been a large feline successful the community. Similar to David, however galore guys walk that agelong with 1 team?

“His play this twelvemonth has been incredible, his enactment and his all-around crippled has been fantastic. When you speech astir the discourtesy and the endowment of the young guys similar Zegras, (Troy) Terry and (Jamie) Drysdale, evidently that’s travel to the forefront.”

Getzlaf became the 92nd subordinate successful NHL past to grounds 1,000 points and the 39th to bash it each with the aforesaid team. He has 280 goals and a franchise-record 720 assists successful 1,118 games. The archetypal of his 1,000 points was an assistance Oct. 14, 2005 against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Terry besides assisted connected Fowler’s first-period goal, extending his scoring streak to 15 consecutive games, tying Getzlaf (2007-08) for the third-longest streak successful Ducks history. Corey Perry holds the franchise grounds with a 19-game streak successful 2009-10, followed by Selanne’s 17-game streak successful 1998-99.

The Capitals appeared to person tied the score, 1-1, astatine 4:58 of the opening period, erstwhile Nick Jensen bushed Ducks goaltender John Gibson with a perimeter shot. Ducks manager Dallas Eakins challenged for offside and a video reappraisal upheld the situation and washed retired the goal.

The Ducks dominated the archetypal play successful galore ways, outshooting the Capitals 11-8 and winning 10 of 13 faceoffs, but they held lone a 1-0 lead. They inactive had a one-goal pb entering the third, but it wasn’t for a deficiency of scoring chances, including 2 particularly bully ones.

Terry skated unmarked down the Capitals’ defence with lone teammate Mason McTavish on for company. Terry’s breakaway effort and McTavish’s rebound effort were some foiled by a sprawling Vitek Vanecek with little than 2 minutes remaining successful the 2nd period, however.

The Capitals tied it, 1-1, connected Garrett Pilon’s extremity astatine 5:36 of the 3rd period, capping a determined propulsion to statesman the period. The Ducks regained the pb connected Zegras’ extremity astatine the 10-minute mark, a spectacular determination aft an arsenic eye-catching walk from Sonny Milano portion astatine apical speed.

Tom Wilson’s deflection past tied it, 2-2, astatine 17:28, forcing the crippled to OT.

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