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 Right wingers Corey Perry and Jakob Silfverberg joined defensemen
Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen in scoring goals during in the
first period to lead the Ducks to a 4-2 victory Friday night in
front of 16,201 at the Honda Center.
Anaheim (19-17-7) launched 19 shots on goal in the first period
against Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen, and scored four goals for the
first time in an opening period since Dec. 17, 2013, in a 5-2 road
win against the Detroit Red Wings.
"That might have been our best period of the year," Ducks coach
Bruce Boudreau said, "for energy and just overall playing the way
we're supposed to play."
Goalie Frederik Andersen stopped 22 shots as Anaheim earned its
fourth victory six games.
"Even though they had the puck a lot," Andersen said, "I feel like
they didn't get clean looks to shoot or get pucks through."
Meanwhile, the Stars (29-12-4) sustained their fifth loss in six
games and sixth in a row on the road.
"We didn't want to do the little things right," Dallas center Vernon
Fiddler said. "We don't want to play defense. We were turning pucks
over and we can't recover. We've really got to take a look in the
mirror here, find our game and find ourselves. It's not just one or
two guys. It's everybody."
Left winger Jamie Benn scored his 26th goal but fellow left winger
Patrick Sharp saw the end of his 12-game streak of points.
"They came out pretty hard and we just played stupid hockey," Benn
said. "The teams that are winning right now are the teams that want
it more and are working harder. That's what happened tonight."
Silfverberg began the scoring 3 minutes, 5 seconds into the game by
redirecting defenseman Josh Manson's slap shot at the right post
past goalie Kari Lehtonen for his fifth goal of the season and his
second in two games.
"I thought he was the best player on the ice," Ducks coach Bruce
Boudreau said of Silfverberg. "He could've had two or three goals. I
thought he was playing back to the was Jakob can play."
Left winger Carl Hagelin began the scoring sequence by intercepting
Dallas defenseman Johnny Oduya's blind drop pass from the right
corner intended for left winger Jamie Benn. Hagelin's play reflected
Anaheim's intense forechecking.
"We knew what kind of team we were playing," Silfverberg said.
"They're probably the most skilled team in the league. You've got to
be make sure you keep playing and not get satisfied."
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Vatanen followed 31 seconds later with a wrist shot from the slot
for his sixth goal. Center Nate Thompson started the play by sending
a pass from the Ducks' zone to right winger Andrew Cogliano. At the
left boards, Cogliano spun away from Stars defenseman Jyrki
Jokipakka before passing to Vatanen, who eluded left winger Antoine
Roussel's checking from behind to score.
Lindholm extended the Ducks' lead to 3-0 with a power-play goal at
15:04. Center Ryan Kesler passed the puck from the left post across
the crease to Lindholm, who used a wrist shot from the right post of
Lehtonen's stick to register his third goal.
Perry added his 17th goal 33 seconds later by redirecting defenseman
Shea Theodore's pass from the inner edge of the left circle inside
the right post.
Dallas center Mattias Janmark broke the shutout with a short-handed
goal 1:15 into the second period. Left winger Travis Moen
intercepted Perry's pass in the neutral zone and freed Janmark for a
breakaway that the Swedish center ended with his 10th goal, a wrist
shot past Andersen.
Benn scored on a power play at 11:58 of the third period to break
the Ducks' team record of 34 successive penalties killed. Benn
received center Jason Spezza's pass between the right corner and the
right post, and stuffed the puck under Andersen's right leg pad.
NOTES: Dallas scratched D Patrik Nemeth, D Jamie Oleksiak and C
Colton Sceviour. ... Stars D Jason Demers played in his 400th NHL
game. ... Stars RW Ales Hemsky returned to the lineup after missing
the past six games with a lower-body injury. ... Stars LW Travis
Moen played every game for the Ducks during the regular season and
playoffs in 2006-07, when they won their only Stanley Cup. ...
Anaheim scratched D Korbinian Holzer and RW Chris Stewart. ... The
Ducks sent D Simon Despres to AHL San Diego on a conditioning
assignment Thursday. Despres had been out of action since Oct. 16,
when he suffered a concussion against the Colorado Avalanche.
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