March 7th, 2017

The Ducks got off to a slow start on Tuesday night in Anaheim, but rallied to beat the Predators 4-3 in a shootout.

Newly acquired Patrick Eaves scored the only goal of the shootout, which came in the 5th round, and capped off the Ducks rally.

Anaheim was down 2-0, and 3-1, before rallying back.  “We stuck with it,” Ryan Getzlaf said. “I felt like, earlier in the year, at these times, I thought we’d maybe let things get away. We [would] start taking more and more penalties. We took our fair share tonight, but we were able to kind of rally it in and get a couple of bounces.”

Richard Rakell and Nick Ritchie scored 6 minutes apart in the 2nd period to tie the game at 3-3.  That was one of the Ducks best 10 minute stretches in several weeks.  Their forecheck was dominant, and they were very effective in the face-off circle.

Ryan Getzlaf also scored for the Ducks on the power play in the 1st period.  It was his 12th of the season, and ended a 1 for 35 drought in their previous 13 games.

Ducks goaltender John Gibson missed his fifth straight game with a muscle strain.  Jonathan Bernier made the start again, and had 24 saves for the win.

The Ducks will travel to Chicago to play the Blackhawks on Thursday night up next.