Troy Terry and Ryan Getzlaf power Ducks to 5-3 victory over Bruins

Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf, left, celebrates with his teammates after scoring against the Boston Bruins.
Geese captain Ryan Getzlaf, left, celebrates along with his teammates after scoring in opposition to the Boston Bruins within the first interval of a 5-3 win Monday.
(Charles Krupa / Related Press)

Troy Terry scored his team-leading twenty third objective, Ryan Getzlaf had a objective and arrange one other, and the Geese cooled off the Boston Bruins with a 5-3 victory Monday night time.

Isac Lundestrom, Derek Grant and Greg Pateryn additionally scored for the Geese, who gained for the fourth time in 11 video games. John Gibson made 23 saves and Hampus Lindholm had three assists.

“We got here out with slightly of an in-your-face angle,” Getzlaf mentioned.

David Pastrnak scored his twentieth objective for Boston, with 12 coming in 13 video games this month. Taylor Corridor added a power-play objective and Erik Haula scored late for the Bruins, who had gone 10-2 since New Yr’s Day.

Boston netminder Tuukka Rask struggled, stopping 22 photographs. It was his first time making two straight begins since re-signing with the workforce after offseason hip surgical procedure.

Rask has performed poorly in two of his 4 begins.

“Clearly, you don’t anticipate it. You’re a proud participant and also you set your expectations excessive,” he mentioned. “Clearly, I haven’t been ok.”

Boston coach Bruce Cassidy thinks it would take some time for Rask to get his timing again.

“He’s not the place he must be,” Cassidy mentioned. “I feel that’s evident and we didn’t assume he can be. You want seven, eight video games.”

Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins missed his second consecutive sport after he examined optimistic for COVID-19. Assistant coach Geoff Ward ran the workforce.

It was the Geese’ second straight win after shedding 4 straight.

“Whenever you’re sick of shedding, you discover a technique to win hockey video games,” Ward mentioned.

With Oskar Steen off for boarding — a penalty that was switched from a serious to a minor after a video evaluation — Grant gave Anaheim a 1-0 edge when he tipped Getzlaf’s shot from the appropriate level halfway into the opening interval.

Rask gave up a delicate short-handed objective when Lundestrom skated down the appropriate wing, minimize towards the online and slid a seemingly innocent backhand that slipped between the goalie’s pads 1:28 into the second.

“Only a horrible objective,” Rask mentioned.

Pastrnak then one-timed Tomas Nosek’s cross-ice cross by Gibson from the left circle, slicing it to 2-1 at 7:47. Getzlaf fired a wrister over Rask’s proper shoulder from the left circle simply greater than three minutes later.

There was a slight smattering of “We Need Swayman!” from the group that echoed across the balcony, referring to promising younger goaltender Jeremy Swayman, who was despatched to the AHL when the Bruins re-signed Rask.

“Tuukka’s been off for some time. I don’t assume there’s any scouting studies proper now,“ Getzlaf mentioned.

Corridor redirected Brad Marchand’s cross into the online from the sting of the crease with simply greater than 4 minutes left within the second.

Terry and Pateryn put it away with third-period objectives.

COVID-19 replace

Terry and defenseman Cam Fowler each returned from COVID-19 protocol, however backup goalie Anthony Stolarz and defenseman Josh Manson remained in protocol. Anaheim ahead Sonny Milano missed his fourth straight sport with an upper-body damage.

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