Here come the Ducks

Trailing 3-2 heading to the third period, the Anaheim Ducks struck four times in the period to defeat the visiting Dallas Stars, 6-3.

Ondrej Kase picked up his first NHL hat truck in the win.

“He’s the type of player who seems to hound the puck effectively and now he’s getting rewarded for the hard work that he’s putting in,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said.

The Ducks improved to 17-11-5, not bad for a team mired in the early season in the muck of a miserable start.

Brandon Montour and Jakob Silfverberg also scored for the Ducks.

John Gibson made 26 saves in the win.

Miro Heiskanen, Blake Comeau and Alexander Radulov scored for the Stars.

“In the second they had trouble handling our intensity, and in the third I thought the first couple minutes they came at us, and then we weathered the storm for about five or six minutes,” Stars head coach Jim Montgomery said. “We had some chances, and then they got that goal and it seemed like we were on our heels the rest of the way.”

Dallas dropped to 16-12-3 with the loss.

Hampus Lindholm added an empty-net goal late to close out the scoring.

“Once we were able to establish a forecheck in the hockey game we were effective. We did it in the first period and we did it in the third period. We didn’t do it in the second. When we’re tenacious and on the puck we’re a hard team to control,” Carlyle said.

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Ben Bishop made 30 saves in the loss.

“It was a tale of three periods,” Bishop said. “They obviously took it to us in the first. We took it to them in the second. Then they took it back to us in the third.”