Ducks rally to beat Blues and extend winning streak to 4 in a row

ANAHEIM — Good against the dregs is 1 thing. Good against the elites, well, that’s thing other wholly arsenic the Ducks learned Sunday erstwhile they welcomed the St. Louis Blues to Honda Center and attempted to widen their winning streak to 4 consecutive games.

The Blues were crisp with the puck and without it, a extremist departure from the Ducks’ past 3 opponents. St. Louis offered the Ducks a greater situation than the Arizona Coyotes, New Jersey Devils and Montreal Canadiens, their past 3 opponents, and they roseate to conscionable it.

The Ducks rallied from an aboriginal shortage to instrumentality a 4-1 triumph from the Blues for their 4th consecutive win, their longest streak since Dec. 9-17, 2018. The Ducks improved their wide grounds to 6-4-3; the Blues are 7-2-1. They hadn’t won 3 successful a enactment since the commencement of 2019-20.

John Gibson returned to the Ducks’ nett aft sitting retired Friday’s triumph implicit the Coyotes due to the fact that of an unwellness unrelated to COVID-19, and helium watched his teammates mishandle the puck successful their ain extremity of the crystal and past saw Brandon Saad gaffe it beneath his pads lone 13 seconds into the game.

Gibson stopped the adjacent 34 shots helium faced.

The Ducks countered with Sam Carrick’s 2nd extremity successful arsenic galore games, a redirection of Derek Grant’s centering walk to him astatine 8:23 of the 2nd period. The Blues had applied sustained unit for respective consecutive shifts earlier Carrick and Grant counterattacked.

Troy Terry enactment the Ducks up 2-1 with a power-play extremity 2:46 into the 3rd period, extending his constituent streak to 11 consecutive games. He has 8 goals and 7 assists during his streak. Sonny Milano and Cam Fowler assisted arsenic the Ducks scored a power-play extremity for the 4th consecutive game.

Sam Steel past made it 3-1 astatine 8:31 of the third. Bo Groulx sealed it with an empty-net extremity wrong the last infinitesimal to relationship for the last score.

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