Ducks rally late, win in 2OT, 4-3 Four straight goals erase 3-0 deficit

In a blink of an eye, Game 5 turned from a disaster for the Anaheim Ducks to a catastrophe for the Edmonton Oilers Friday night.

With 3:16 left in regulation, Ryan Getzlaf scored for the Ducks to break the shutout that Cam Talbot had been pitching and cut the Anaheim deficit to 3-1.

“We knew once we got one, we’d get two,” Getzlaf said. “We knew we would scratch and claw.”

The Oilers seemed poised but the Ducks, with John Gibson on the bench for the extra attacker, scored again off a goal from Cam Fowler to give the Ducks hope.

Then, with 16 seconds left on the clock and scrum in front of Talbot in the crease, Rickard Rakell potted a backhander that sent the game to overtime and the crowd at the Honda Center into a frenzy.

“It wasn’t a good birthday to start, but it was a good ending,” Rakell said, who celebrated number 24 Friday.

Just four minutes earlier the arena was a tomb.

To cut to the chase, Corey Perry scored for the Ducks to complete the improbable rally with a goal at 6:57 of the second overtime to give the Ducks a 4-3 win and 3-2 series lead.

“It’s something you can’t explain,” Perry said. “You go out and it happens.”

Perry was left untouched and unchallenged as he took pass from Getzlaf off the boards and skated through the slot, deked Talbot and had more than a foot of open net to slide the puck home for the winner.

“You cannot quit believing when you’re in any situation,” Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle said after the win.

The Oilers built a seemingly unbeatable 3-0 lead on goals from Connor McDavid,Leon Draisaitl and Drake Caggiula and were dominating in most aspects of the game.

Gibson made 35 saves in the win but was not nearly as busy as Talbot at the other end of the ice.

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Talbot made an astonishing 60 saves through the match, an Oilers record, and really should be credited for keeping the Oilers in the game early when the Ducks were sending waves of breakaways into the Oilers zone.

“We have to come back with a game that’s that much better,” Oilers head coach Todd McLellan said. “We can do that. We believed we can play with this team from Day One.”