Ryan Strome scored the game-winning goal with 3:24 left as the Anaheim Ducks held on for a 3-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night, despite blowing a two-goal lead.
Troy Terry and Robby Fabbri scored the Ducks’ first two goals, but they lost the lead in just under eight minutes in the third period. Strome finished with two points, as did Frank Vatrano, who had two assists.
Strome broke the 2-2 tie after receiving a cross-ice pass from Jackson LaCombe. He took his time above the right faceoff circle before firing a slapshot that went through traffic, past a screened Jacob Markstrom, and into the upper right corner of the net.
Strome’s goal came after Jonas Siegenthaler and Timo Meier had scored for the Devils, who have now lost two straight games. The Ducks have won two in a row.
Anaheim goalie Lukas Dostal made 32 saves, including eight on two New Jersey power plays in the first period. He also stopped Jack Hughes and Dougie Hamilton six times each.
Dostal made two big saves on Hughes during a power play and also stopped Hughes in the first minute of the second period after a turnover behind the Anaheim net.
The Ducks earned their fifth win in eight games and scored on their first shot against Markstrom, who made 23 saves and saw his six-game winning streak come to an end.
Midway through the first period, Vatrano took the puck from defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic behind the net and passed it to Terry. Terry shot the puck over Markstrom’s glove from the outer edge of the right circle.
Fabbri extended Anaheim’s lead with a goal on a two-on-one with Cutter Gauthier at 3:57 of the third period, just after Brian Dumoulin forced a turnover from New Jersey defenseman Brett Pesce.
Fabbri had been stopped on a breakaway late in the second period.
Siegenthaler ended Dostal’s shutout bid with a shot from the left point that deflected off Anaheim’s Brett Leason and into the net at 5:31 of the third period.
Meier tied the game 2-2 by scoring on a feed from Hamilton while falling to the ice with 6:40 remaining, just moments after Anaheim’s Mason McTavish was denied on a breakaway.
