Ducks top Avalanche on Perry's OT goal
The official game recap Anaheim Ducks vs Colorado Avalanche.Corey Perry scored at 1:25 of overtime to give the Anaheim Ducks a 3-2 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Honda Center on Friday.
Perry beat Colorado goalie Semyon Varlamov to the glove side with a wrist shot on a breakaway for his 29th goal after Ducks defenseman Sami Vatanen poked the puck free from Colorado defenseman Brad Stuart at the Anaheim blue line.
It was the third straight game in which Anaheim erased a third-period deficit to win.
The line of Jiri Sekac, Rickard Rakell and Tomas Fleischmann combined for two goals and an assist for the Ducks (46-20-7), who are the first team in the NHL to reach 99 points.
Varlamov made 37 saves for the Avalanche (33-26-12), who got one point and are six points back of the Winnipeg Jets for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.
Rakell tied it 2-2 when he beat Varlamov with a wrist shot from the left circle at 9:04 of the third period. Rakell poked the puck free and pivoted into position for his seventh goal this season.
Colorado erased a 1-0 deficit with two goals in 1:51 of the third period by Jarome Iginla and Ryan O'Reilly. Iginla one-timed Matt Duchene's saucer pass from the slot past Frederik Andersen for his team-leading 24thhgoal at 5:28 after Duchene grabbed the puck at the half-wall off a dump-in.
O'Reilly scored his fourth career shorthanded goal at 7:19 when took a loose puck that hopped over Vatanen's stick at the blue line, raced past him and used a backhand-forehand move to beat Andersen.
Sekac scored his first goal as a Duck 3:37 into the game with a turnaround shot that banked off Varlamov. Sekac, acquired from the Montreal Canadiens on Feb. 24, has been scratched the previous game.
Vatanen returned from a lower-body injury that kept him out for 15 games.
-- by Curtis Zupke for NHL.com --
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21/03/2015 - 06:00
