now 7-0-0 in shootouts this season<\/a>, have won 12 of their past 14 games. Calgary had been shut out by the Kings 25 hours earlier in a game that snapped its two-game win streak and began a two-game winless streak.<\/p>\nCutter Gauthier scored a pair of goals to stretch his team-topping total to 28. Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dost\u00e1l repelled 32 pucks.<\/p>\n
Joel Farabee and Yegor Sharangovich each had a goal for Calgary. Devin Cooley made 34 stops.<\/p>\n
In the shootout, Leo Carlsson\u2019s silky backhand was matched by Nazem Kadri\u2019s rising wrister. The winner came from Mason McTavish, who executed a slowed-down version of his patented move that finished with a shot through the wickets of Cooley.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hung in there, got a big power-play goal late in the third, there was some excitement late in the game, and then overtime was exciting, and the shootout was (McTavish\u2019s) moment,\u201d Coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing how he makes that move. I still don\u2019t know how he does it; he\u2019s very creative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cooley, who experienced that ingenuity firsthand but may not have seen it coming \u2014 despite McTavish going to that well regularly \u2014 offered some insight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gets really close, and then you\u2019re like \u2018oh, when do I go down or when do I not go down?\u2019 Then, he tries to go around you, and you\u2019re already down, and then he cuts it back,\u201d Cooley said. \u201cIt was pretty sneaky by him, that\u2019s definitely a sneaky move. I should have watched some video on him, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the final 2:48 of overtime, Beckett Sennecke nearly ended the game off a partial breakaway with Calgary\u2019s Kadri and the Ducks\u2019 Ryan Poehling also got involved.<\/p>\n
The Flames appeared to be content to go to a shootout until Kadri drove the net and tested Dost\u00e1l with a backhand bid. At the other end, Poehling nearly scored in tight, and Morgan Frost interfered with Jacob Trouba. On the resulting truncated power play, Gauthier\u2019s buzzer-beating bid for a hat trick didn\u2019t go, sending the affair to a shootout, where the Ducks have been flawless.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always talk about (the shootout), I work with the (skaters), and they work with me,\u201d Dost\u00e1l said. \u201cThere\u2019s kind of a bond between us, because we know it\u2019s important. When we get to that position, we have to capitalize.\u201d<\/p>\n
As pressure mounted, the Ducks drew a penalty against Calgary captain Mikael Backlund and cashed in on the man advantage. After some early miscues, they scored nearly halfway through the infraction off a Gauthier one-timer from the right dot with 9:19 left in regulation.<\/p>\n
The hosts and visitors swapped goals in the second period, with the Ducks tying the game at 11:14 and retroceding the lead 4:56 later. They threatened, thanks in part to a late power play, but went into the second intermission down 2-1.<\/p>\n
As a Flames power play wound down, Sharangovich, who had withstood pressure from two penalty killers to start a puck reversal, got it back in the right circle. There, he maneuvered inside of Pavel Mintyukov to open a shooting lane for a far-side, go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n
The Ducks had squared up the score by way of a funky goal from Gauthier. He set a pick on Kadri in the neutral zone and burst forth to follow up Carlsson\u2019s shot attempt with one shot on net, then a second and finally a third from below the goal line that ricocheted off Cooley\u2019s mask and back before entering the net.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever scored a goal like that,\u201d Gauthier said.<\/p>\n
In the first period, Farabee was at the center of the action. His interference with Dost\u00e1l drew a crowd in the corner and a penalty against Calgary, but it was Farabee himself scoring the only goal of the frame.<\/p>\n
As the Flames regrouped in the neutral zone, Farabee came off the bench for Adam Klapka and skated unimpeded from the red line to the netfront, where his redirection gave Calgary the lead 9:41 after the opening draw.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe penalty and all that kind of got me into the game,\u201d Farabee said. \u201cOn the goal, something that\u2019ll never come up on the scoresheet was (Klapka\u2019s) change \u2026 he made the decision to come off and it let me come on the ice with a lot of speed.\u201d<\/p>\n
On deck for the Ducks awaits the Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, the NHL\u2019s best team by record this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier celebrates his goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-200490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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