Recap: Ducks Power Play Comes Alive in 3-1 Win over Sharks

Troy Terry and Leo Carlsson scored power-play goals, guiding the Ducks to a 3-1 victory over the rival San Jose Sharks tonight at Honda Center.

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With the win, Anaheim improved to 3-2-1 on the young season and 2-1-0 on home ice.

Terry and Carlsson provided the offense with power-play goals, Anaheim's first two markers on the man advantage this season. Alex Killorn sealed the win with an empty-netter. Rookie winger Cutter Gauthier registered two assists while Mason McTavish and Jackson LaCombe added one apiece.

Lukas Dostal was again terrific in net for Anaheim, continuing his stellar start to the new campaign with stops on 27-of-28 San Jose shots. Dostal is now 3-1-1 on the season with a .936 save percentage.

Mikael Granlund scored the lone goal for the Sharks, who fell to 0-5-2 as the NHL's last winless team this season. Goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood made 38 saves. Anaheim's 40 shots in the win marked a season high.

San Jose came an inch from tying the game on an early first-period rush, ringing the crossbar behind Dostal before seeing the rebound bounce off the goal line and the far-side post before trickling away from the net.

With some help from his iron friends, Dostal was sharp from the drop in the first period, making quality stops on odd-man rushes. The best was a sliding denial of Will Smith in tight, denying the rookie his first NHL goal.

Instead it would be Anaheim claiming the night's first lead on a remarkable individual effort by Terry, who went coast-to-coast before beating Blackwood over the shoulder with a wrister from the high slot.

Terry paces the Ducks with four goals anf five points in six games this season. LaCombe and Gauthier each collected their first points of the season with assists on the go-ahead goal.

The goal also marked Anaheim's first power-play tally of the new season.

San Jose's Barclay Goodrow hit the visitors' third post of the night in the final minute of the second period, commencing a wild scrum in the Anaheim net with again somehow keeping the puck out of the net.

Granlund would momentarily level the score for the Sharks early in the third, directing a shot from the point that inadvertently deflected off Jackson LaCombe's stick before sneaking under Dostal's glove.

The goal was Wennberg's first point as a Shark.

That tied scored would last for all of 41 seconds though, when Carlsson drove the net and tapped home a loose rebound off Gauthier's one-timer.

The two-assist performance marked Gauthier's first multi-point game in the NHL.

Carlsson has tallied four points in his last four games (3-1=4). McTavish leads Anaheim with three assists.

Killorn capped the scoring with an empty-netterin the game's final minutes.

The Ducks begin a four-game road trip Saturday against the New York Rangers.