Achi news desk-
CALGARY –
Alex Killorn scored twice, a goal and Troy Terry had two assists and the Anaheim Ducks snapped a five game losing streak with a 5-3 win 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 for a long time. It has been hard. 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 no fun losing games and especially not consecutive ones,” Zellweger said. “Get this win 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 a structure,” Flames defenseman MacKenzie Weegar said. “A team like that, who play freely and are quite skilled, they can make you pay. I don’t know why we don’t prepare like we would against any other team in the league.”
After beating the playoffs Los Angeles Kings and playing a great game, a return to the inconsistent ways of the club that have plagued them all season.
“Today was not up to our standards and we leaders have to show the way to the young boys,” said Flames captain Mikael Backlund. “We know we have to play a lot better. We know we have to learn from it and at some point, we have to play better against teams below us in the rankings.”
Anaheim 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 goal post for his first goal in 22 games. Anaheim made it 4-2 at 5:09 when Terry carried the puck down the left wing and found Killorn in the slot for the goal.
After Kuzmenko’s second of the night at 9:34 cut the lead to one, Killorn put the game away with his second 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 of him by Sharangovich.
Calgary took the lead for the first time when Kuzmenko took a pass from Kadri, cut into the slot to avoid Zegras, then pulled the puck around Fowler, before holding on patiently to stay against Dostal and fire’ the puck into the net.
The Ducks tied it three minutes later as Terry made up for not scoring on a break away earlier in the period.
Terry is the eighth player in franchise history with three consecutive 20-goal seasons and the first since Rickard Rakell did it between 2015-16 and 2017-18.
McTavish later left the game with a lower body injury after a hit.
“It doesn’t look good. We’ll know more later,” Ducks head coach Greg Cronin said. “It was an awkward shot. I didn’t like the way it ended. I thought their man took advantage.”
UP NEXT
Ducks: Start of a four-game homestand against the Kraken on Friday night.
Flames: In Winnipeg Thursday night.
