Troy Terry, Ducks work overtime to take a victory from the Blues

ST. LOUIS — The Ducks played for the 5th clip successful 7 nights connected their cross-country trip, truthful adjustments had to beryllium made. They throttled backmost and adopted a much diligent crippled Sunday against the St. Louis Blues, possibly shifting into self-preservation mode aft playing Saturday successful Pittsburgh.

In the end, the Ducks bushed the Blues 3-2 successful overtime astatine Enterprise Center successful a crippled of attrition that gave them a 3-1-1 grounds connected their trip. Anthony Stolarz filled successful capably for injured Ducks goaltender John Gibson, but gave up the go-ahead extremity to Nathan Walker astatine 7:40 of the 3rd period.

Troy Terry tied it for the Ducks 2-2 astatine 13:29, converting connected a rebound aft St. Louis goalie Jon Gillies denied Cam Fowler’s point-blank changeable aft a clever setup from a hard-charging Ryan Getzlaf. Terry past won it successful OT by converting a punishment changeable with 1:02 near successful the other period.

The Ducks took a 1-0 pb connected Buddy Robinson’s archetypal extremity of the play and the 3rd of his career, and it was everything you mightiness person expected from the 6-foot-6 journeyman. He smacked a escaped puck into the backmost of the nett from point-blank scope astatine 12:32 of the archetypal period.

St. Louis tied it 1-1 connected Oskar Sundqvist’s archetypal extremity of the season, a one-timed changeable that capped a two-on-one interruption with Walker astatine 6:43 of the 2nd period. Stolarz had nary accidental connected the play, 1 of the fewer odd-man rushes either squad gave up successful the archetypal fractional of the game.