In Anaheim, the visiting Carolina Hurricanes snapped a three-game skid behind Petr Mrazek’s 18 saves to defeat the Ducks, 4-1.
Brett Pesce, Justin Williams and Sebastian Aho scored in the third to break open a 1-1 game.
Clark Bishop tied the game for the Hurricanes in the second period with his first NHL goal.
“Not something that I ever pictured scoring my first NHL goal like that, but they all count, and luckily that one did,” Bishop said.
The Canes improved to 13-11-4.
“It was a great effort all the way up and down the lineup,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We had a lot of guys banged up, a lot of guys that were just muscling it out, and I think we deserved that win. It was nice to begin the long trip home here and at least have that in our bank.”
Jakob Silfverberg staked the Ducks to a 1-0 lead in the first period that they frittered away.
“It was one of those games where nothing we seemed to try to do had any effect on it, any positive effect,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. “It was all frustration and lack of ability to execute. They were faster, quicker, and executed to a higher rate than we did.”
The Ducks dropped to 15-11-5.
For Silfverberg, it was his 100th career NHL goal.
“It’s tough on a night like this to look on the positive side, but it’s an accomplishment. I’m proud of it,” Silfverberg said.
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John Gibson made 32 saves in the loss.
“We didn’t have it. I don’t know how I can explain it to you any different. We just didn’t have anything going,” Carlyle said.
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