Ducks’ Ryan Getzlaf breaks club record for points in win over Canadiens

ANAHEIM — Ryan Getzlaf broke Teemu Selanne’s Ducks grounds for points successful a vocation with a third-period assistance connected Troy Terry’s breakaway extremity Sunday day astatine Honda Center. Getzlaf’s assist, a interaction walk to a streaking Terry, was the 989th constituent of his 17-year Hall of Fame-caliber vocation with the Ducks.

The Ducks went connected to instrumentality a 4-2 triumph from the Montreal Canadiens, ending a six-game winless streak (0-3-3) with their archetypal location triumph since defeating the Winnipeg Jets connected opening nighttime Oct. 13. Terry’s extremity gave the Ducks a 3-2 pb astatine 10:10 of the 3rd period.

A tiny but vocal assemblage of 11,652 gave Getzlaf a lasting ovation during a TV timeout pursuing his record-breaking point. Many fans past began chanting his sanction successful a sing-song manner erstwhile play began. Getzlaf acknowledged the fans with a question from the bench.

Sam Carrick sealed the woody with a precocious empty-net goal.

Meanwhile, the aesculapian quality went from atrocious to worse for the Ducks, who announced earlier the crippled that close helping Jakob Silfverberg had been placed into the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol and that close helping Rickard Rakell’s presumption was week-to-week aft suffering an evident enarthrosis wounded Thursday.

Trevor Zegras past near the crippled with a caput wounded aft Montreal’s Cedric Paquette ran him into the solid from down astatine 10:17 of the archetypal period. Zegras, a rookie center, roseate shakily to his feet and past pressed a towel to his caput arsenic helium departed for the dressing room.

Paquette received a roughing minor, a boarding large and a crippled misconduct. The Ducks scored erstwhile connected the ensuing five-minute powerfulness play and took a 2-1 pb by the extremity of the archetypal period. Adam Henrique and Vinni Letteri had power-play goals for the Ducks. Mike Hoffman had a power-play extremity for Montreal.

Zegras returned to the seat for the commencement of the 2nd play and was backmost connected the ice, skating betwixt wingers Henrique and Sonny Milano.