CALGARY, Alberta — The wins have been few and far between for the Ducks lately, so they feel special when they arrive.
Alex Killorn scored twice, Troy Terry had a goal and two assists and the Ducks snapped their five-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.
“It feels good to win,” said Killorn, who has 17 goals this season. “We haven’t done that in a long time. It’s been tough. It’s nice, especially at the end of the road trip to go home with a good feeling.”
Mason McTavish and Cam Fowler rounded out the scoring for Anaheim while rookie defenseman Olen Zellweger had three assists for his first career multi-point game.
Lukas Dostal made 21 stops as the Ducks won for just the second time in their last 14 games (2-11-1).
“It’s not fun losing games and especially not consecutive ones,” Zellweger said. “Get the win here and now we’re looking forward to the next one where we can keep that going.”
Andrei Kuzmenko had two goals and Yegor Sharangovich also scored for the Flames, who have lost six of their last seven games. Jacob Markstrom had 24 saves.
“We weren’t committed to playing with structure,” Flames defenseman MacKenzie Weegar said. “A team, like that, that plays loose and are pretty skilled, they can make you pay. I don’t know why we don’t get prepared like it would be against any other top team in the league.”
Tied after 40 minutes, the Ducks took the lead 1:52 into the third when Fowler jumped into the rush, took a pass from Trevor Zegras and wired a shot inside the goalpost for his fifth goal of the season and first in 22 games.
The Ducks doubled their lead at 5:09 when Terry carried the puck down the left wing and found Killorn in the slot, who zipped a shot past Markstrom.
After Kuzmenko’s second of the night at 9:34 cut the lead to one again, Killorn put the game away with his second of the period and 17th of the season at 13:14.
Down 1-0 after the first period, Calgary tied it 2:30 into the second period, needing just five seconds to connect on a power play.
After winning the faceoff, the puck eventually came back to Nazem Kadri and his shot was deflected in front by Sharangovich for his 29th goal.
Calgary took its first lead of the night when Kuzmenko took a pass from Kadri, cut into the slot to avoid Zegras, then pulled the puck around Fowler, before holding onto it patiently to outwait Dostal and fire the puck into the net.
The Ducks tied it three minutes later as Terry made up for failing to score on a breakaway earlier in the period.
Zellweger’s shot hit Leo Carlsson in the leg and caromed right to Terry at the side of the net where he buried his 20th goal and 50th point.
Terry is the eighth player in club history with three consecutive 20-goal seasons and the first since Rickard Rakell did it from 2015-16 to 2017-18.
It took the Ducks more than 11 minutes to record its first shot. But when it came, the ice began to tilt the other direction with the visitors recording 13 of the period’s final 14 shots, one of them being McTavish’s goal at 14:03.
After going 14 games without a goal, the 21-year-old in his sophomore NHL season has goals in consecutive games and is up to 19 on the season.
McTavish later left the game with a lower-body injury after a hit.
“It doesn’t look good. We’ll know more later,” Ducks coach Greg Cronin said. “It was an awkward hit. I didn’t like the way it ended. I thought their guy took advantage.”
After beating the playoff-bound Kings and playing an excellent game, Tuesday was a return to the Flames’ inconsistent ways that have plagued them all season.
“Today wasn’t up to our standards and us leaders gotta show the way for the young guys,” said Flames captain Mikael Backlund. “We know we’ve gotta play a lot better. We know we gotta learn from it and at some point, we’ve got to play better against teams that are below us in the standings.”
UP NEXT
The Ducks open a four-game homestand against the Seattle Kraken on Friday at 7 p.m.
