ANAHEIM — After all the misplays and missed opportunities, Ducks right wing Jakob Silfverberg stood at one end of the ice facing New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist at the other end and decided it was time to try something different Saturday afternoon at Honda Center.
What happened next was some serious Swede on Swede crime. Silfverberg lifted a backhanded shot past a befuddled Lundqvist for the winning goal in a shootout that gave the Ducks a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over the Rangers.
Silfverberg’s go-to shootout move over the years has been a quick snipe to the goalie’s glove side that was deadly in his first few seasons, but not nearly as effectively recently. But he crossed up Lundqvist with a backhander for his 20th career goal in shootouts.
“I think it was the first time I’ve done something else,” Silfverberg said. “But I think it was about time, too. I think I was 0 for 10 in my last 10 tries or something, so I thought I would try and mix it up and it worked out. You don’t know how it’s going to go in a shootout, but these points are huge.”
After rallying from deficits of 2-0 and 3-2, the Ducks managed to survive an overtime in which goalie John Gibson made two superb saves, including a game-saving stop on New York’s Mika Zibanejad with about 90 seconds remaining in the five-minute extra period.
Zibanejad beat Gibson in the shootout, but Gibson denied the Rangers’ Artemi Panarin and Kaapo Kakko. Ondrej Kase matched Zibanejad’s goal, beating Lundqvist with a backhanded shot. Silfverberg then did the same to give the Ducks a victory.
Zibanejad also scored twice in regulation play, including the go-ahead goal 1:14 into the third period, and Panarin also scored for the Rangers. The Ducks countered with goals from Silfverberg (power play), Erik Gudbranson and Hampus Lindholm (power play).
Lindholm’s goal tied the score 3-3 with only 1:46 remaining in the third period, just as Gibson was leaving his crease in favor of a sixth attacker. Rickard Rakell assisted on each of the Ducks’ goals in regulation, tying Ryan Getzlaf for the Ducks’ lead with 15 this season.
“It was a rough start for us, but I think we just tried to forget about that,” Rakell said of facing a two-goal deficit less than four minutes into the game. “It was nice to get that power-play goal (from Silfverberg). We were still playing a good game when we were down a goal, not thinking too much.”
The Ducks trailed 1-0 only 10 seconds into a rare Saturday matinee at Honda Center, then went down 2-0 after only 3:59 had been played. They rallied smartly when Silfverberg’s power-play goal cut the deficit to 2-1 at 8:53 of the first period, then tied it on Gudbranson’s strike at 1:02 of the second.
In the second, the Ducks seemed to be skating downhill for the better part of the period, outshooting the Rangers by 18-3 and generally creating havoc in front of Lundqvist’s net. They couldn’t produce the tiebreaking goal, though. Zibanejad would put New York in front 3-2 early in the third.
Lindholm’s goal was his first of the season, and it also marked the first time this season the Ducks had scored twice in a game on their 30th-ranked power play. They also scored a man-advantage goal for the third consecutive game, another season high.
“We know we’ve been playing some good hockey lately,” Lindholm said. “We’ve been playing good and outshooting teams, but haven’t really gotten those pucks going in for us. We stuck with it (Saturday) and it shows that if you just keep going, night in and night out, game after game, you can get rewarded.”
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