In Anaheim, the Ducks gutted out a 4-2 win over the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Monday night.
The win pushed the Ducks back to .500 hockey at 12-12-4.
Ryan Miller made 33 saves in the win as the Ducks are 2-3-2 in their last seven games.
Kurtis MacDermid and Nikolai Prokhorkin were the Kings’ strikers.
Derek Grant struck twice in the win.
“As a team, when you’re struggling to score goals, you’re going to take them from anywhere,” Grant said. “It’s something that, for our team to be successful, we need all four lines to chip in at different times. We did that tonight.”
LA is 0-8-1 in their last nine road games.
“It seems to me that we don’t bring the same energy on the road as we do at home,” Los Angeles coach Todd McLellan said. “We take a lot of jabs, we get knocked down, we slowly pick ourselves up off the mat, and then it’s too late. Can’t play that way. So we’ve got some things we need to address.”
Carter Rowney scored for the Ducks.
“We thought it was important, especially against a team that had been playing well as of late, to do our best to get ahead in that game,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said.
Jakob Silfverberg also scored for the Ducks.
“They just do everything that’s asked of them,” Eakins said of his fourth line. “They play a very, very simple game, and I think playing a simple game has a great advantage. And, again, tonight those guys leading the way was very important to our success.”
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Jack Campbell made 16 saves in the loss.
“We didn’t get the start that we wanted, but I think after the first (period) we got some legs and found ourselves,” Los Angeles forward Michael Amadio said.
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