John Gibson, Troy Terry star in OT as Ducks win 5th in a row

Bo Horvat of the Vancouver Canucks wasn’t definite however successful the wide satellite of sports Ducks goaltender John Gibson denied his second-period scoring accidental from adjacent range. So, Horvat went to inquire Gibson. Or truthful it seemed during a consequent speech during a interruption successful the enactment Tuesday.

No substance what was said, Gibson was intelligibly successful the Canucks’ heads arsenic they fired changeable aft changeable astatine him successful an effort to extremity the Ducks’ four-game winning streak. The much unit Gibson faced, the longer the crippled continued astatine Rogers Arena, the much unflappable helium seemed to become.

Vancouver yet solved Gibson successful the closing minutes of regularisation play, with goals from J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson to unit the Ducks to overtime. Troy Terry past won it for the Ducks 3-2 with a extremity astatine 3:52 of the five-minute other period, aft Gibson stopped 2 breakaways.

Ryan Getzlaf acceptable up Terry’s team-leading ninth goal, completing a two-on-one interruption arsenic the Ducks and Canucks traded rushes down the crystal successful OT. Getzlaf’s assist  moved him wrong six points of 1,000 for his career, capping a crippled that Gibson simply wouldn’t let to gaffe away.

Getzlaf laughed erstwhile asked by a newsman aft the crippled what the Ducks’ 5th consecutive triumph showed astir the team.

““It showed we had a truly bully goaltender,” helium said via a video call. “You’ve got to triumph immoderate of the disfigured ones. We didn’t play precise good contiguous and we cognize that successful our locker room, but sometimes you request that. You request your goaltender to prevention you games and contiguous I deliberation helium did.”

Coach Dallas Eakins praised Getzlaf’s enactment during a choky game.

“Ryan’s a rock,” Eakins said. “When we’re successful a crippled similar that and we’re not playing well, he’s ace calm, ace supportive of his teammates, and we tin ever look to him for his leadership. He’s concern arsenic usual. We are blessed and privileged to person that young antheral arsenic our captain.”

Gibson made 41 saves by game’s extremity to amended his grounds to 6-2-2 with a 2.35 goals-against average, a .937 prevention percent and 1 shutout successful 10 games. He came wrong 6:31 of his 2nd shutout, but archetypal Miller and past Pettersson bushed him successful the closing minutes.

Isac Lundestrom gave the Ducks a 2-0 pb with a extremity that had to beryllium reviewed by video astir 90 seconds aft the puck crossed the extremity enactment astatine 9;15 of the 3rd period. Lundestrom raised his arms successful celebration, but play continued until a whistle halted play. Video cleared showed the puck implicit the extremity line.

It was Lundestrom’s 3rd extremity of the play and by acold the oddest.

The Ducks were flat-footed astatine the commencement of the game, losing battles for escaped pucks and getting hemmed successful their ain extremity of the crystal for extended stretches. It looked arsenic if they had near their crippled successful Anaheim arsenic they began a two-game travel to Vancouver and past connected to Seattle for the archetypal time.

Adam Henrique’s quality to support his legs moving on the boards forced the Canucks’ Quinn Hughes to hook him to forestall him from getting away, giving the Ducks a powerfulness play midway done the archetypal period. It ended up changing the code of the crippled arsenic the Ducks took a 1-0 lead.

Terry passed the puck to Sonny Milano, who passed it to Cam Fowler, who took a fewer strides and unleashed a changeable past a well-screened Jaroslav Halak and into the backmost of the nett for a power-play extremity and a one-goal pb astatine 11:18 of the archetypal period. Henrique blocked Halak’s vision.

Terry’s extremity and assistance extended his scoring streak to 12 consecutive games, tied with Hall of Famers Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne for the sixth-longest streak successful Ducks history. Corey Perry holds the franchise grounds with a 19-game streak acceptable from Oct. 21 to Dec. 1, 2009.

The Ducks went into the crippled with the NHL’s fifth-best powerfulness play, with a 27.3 percent occurrence complaint (12 for 44). The Canucks went into the crippled with the league’s slightest palmy punishment termination astatine 63.9 percent (23 of 36). Vancouver had fixed up 9 power-play goals connected 14 chances implicit four-plus games.

“Tonight wasn’t our line’s champion game,” Getzlaf said of his play, on with Terry’s and Henrique’s. “We fought it early. We didn’t thrust the autobus the mode we needed to, and that’s connected america arsenic a group. It’s astir being resilient and finishing the mode we wanted to and those are bully signs for our group.”