Recap: Ducks Earn Comeback Win over Toronto on Zegras' OT Clincher

The Ducks fought back from a two-goal third-period deficit and Trevor Zegras scored the game-winning goal in overtime, clinching a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Dia De Muertos tonight at Honda Center.
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The comeback win snapped Anaheim's seven-game winless skid and moved the club to 2-1-0 on home ice this season.
Zegras, Jakob Silfverberg, Dmitry Kulikov and Frank Vatrano scored for Anaheim. Derek Grant, Isac Lundestrom, Troy Terry, Frank Vatrano, Kevin Shattenkirk and Ryan Strome added assists.
Zegras' OT winner was the second such goal of his career and his sixth game winner. The 21-year-old center has six goals in nine games this season.
John Gibson stopped 32-of-35 Toronto shots to earn his second win of the year. Gibson, who leads the NHL in saves (238), is now five wins from matching Guy Hebert (173) for second-most in Ducks history.
Auston Matthews, Denis Malgin and Alexander Kerfoot scored for the Maple Leafs, who fell to 4-5-1 on the season. Erik Kallgren made 35 saves.
Toronto led 2-1 after a back-and-forth first period, with Anaheim's special teams struggles again showing up early.
The reigning Hart Trophy winner as league MVP, Matthews put Toronto ahead first with a power-play goal. William Nylander brought the puck down right wing, drawing the Ducks defense towards him before setting up an open Matthews in the slot, where he zipped it past Gibson for his third goal of the season.
Matthews has goals in two of his last three games and appears to be picking up a steam in the season after he became the first NHL player in a decade to score 60 goals in a single campaign.
Nylander, who is now second among team leaders in scoring, has found the scoresheet in eight of his first 10 games this season.
The Ducks have allowed the game's opening goal in seven of nine games this season, and conceded a power-play tally in four consecutive contests.
Anaheim responded on a pretty passing play by Silfverberg and Grant. With the Ducks on the forecheck, Grant got to a loose puck along the goal line, spinning and delivering a no-look pass to Silfverberg in the right faceoff circle. Silfverberg made quick work of the opportunity, quickly burying his bid to the far side before Kallgren could get set in his crease.

Silfverberg is now three goals from tying Bobby Ryan (147) for seventh-most in Ducks history.
The level score would be short-lived though, as the visitors went back ahead minutes later when a broken play in the neutral zone led to a breakaway for Malgin. As the Leafs brought the puck up the right-wing wall, Nylander chipped it past a pinching Ducks defender, allowing Malgin to skate in unchecked and beat Gibson with a backhand move.
That score would hold until the third, despite close calls on both ends.
Gibson did his best work of the evening late in the first, absolutely robbing Toronto captain John Tavares with a lunging glove save.

Anaheim had the better of the scoring chances in the second, namely a backdoor pass from Trevor Zegras to Frank Vatrano, a shot off the post by Terry and a last-minute breakaway for Grant, but could not convert to again tie the game.

Those missed opportunities would prove especially costly early in the third, when the a power-play turnover became a shorthanded rush for Toronto. T.J. Brodie jumped on a loose puck, springing Kerfoot ahead with Jarnkrok, who deposited the cross-crease pass for a 3-1 Maple Leafs advantage.
Despite the club's recent struggles and a sudden two-goal deficit, the Ducks kept pushing to get back in the game, and would soon get rewarded for their efforts.
First, they got back within one on a connection by the club's two most prolific offensive weapons. As Toronto attacked the Anaheim blue line, Adam Henrique poked the puck away from star winger Mitch Marner, allowing Terry to spring Zegras for a breakaway. Zegras raced in to the avoid Marner's backcheck, beating Kallgren with a backhander under the crossbar.

Zegras has scored in three of his last four games (4-0=4) and leads Anaheim in goals (six).
Terry, who has points in seven of 10 games this season, paces the Ducks in scoring and assists.
Before Anaheim could pull even, Gibson had to come through with a massive stop. As Kerfoot took a stretch pass, got behind the Anaheim defense and fought through a slash, the Leafs forward was awarded a penalty shot. Gibson responded with a calm denial of the one-on-one bid though, keeping the deficit at one.
Kulikov then picked up his netminder on the other end, bringing the Ducks back level with a well-executed wraparound. The veteran defenseman took a pass from Vatrano, circling the net and beating Kallgren to the far post, where he snuck his bid just inside the red iron.

Anaheim appeared to take the lead when Vatrano beat Kallgren from the slot with 4:54 to play in regulation, but the goal was nullified after a goaltender interference review.
Instead, the Ducks would earn the extra standings point in overtime when Zegras won a race with Kerfoot to the net before lifting a wrister over Kallgren's glove to win it for Anaheim.

The Ducks begin a three-game roadtrip Tuesday in San Jose.