In Anaheim Tuesday night, the Ducks continued their recent hot streak and got goals from Rickard Rakell, Hampus Lindholm and Ryan Garbutt in a 3-2 regulation win over the San Jose Sharks.
Frederik Andersen made 30 saves for the win.
“That was a really big game for us,” Andersen said. “We wanted to make sure that we 
countered their push. They’re a team that comes out really hard in the first period. We had a good first period, tightened things up a little bit and the last minute or two we were scrambling a little bit but the [penalty-kill] came up for us there.”
The loss snapped San Jose’s streak as they had not lost in regulation since early January.
“It was there; we were fighting hard and we had the chances to score tonight but we didn’t find a way to get that extra one that we needed,” Sharks forward Joe Pavelski said. “Overall, it was good when we laid it in and forechecked it was there for us. But we were a little too cute through the neutral zone and it kind of went the other way.”
Dainius Zubrus and Tommy Wingels scored for the Sharks.
Defenseman Cam Fowler, returned to the ice for the Ducks and contributed on the special teams.
“He’s basically the reason we won,” Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. “I thought we were pretty sloppy as a group and we didn’t play as well as we’ve been playing. When that happens, you need your goalie.”
Martin Jones had 22 saves in the loss.
“Every game is really important and we’re taking it that way,” Boudreau said. “It’s like a doubleheader in baseball; you want to win that first game. We were sloppy and there’s things that we could do a lot better, but we’ll be better at them in the next game.”
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