Recap: Klingberg, Dostal Lead Ducks to 5-2 Win in Montreal

John Klingberg scored twice, including the game-winning goal in the third period, and Lukas Dostal made 23 saves, leading the Ducks to a 5-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens tonight at Bell Centre.
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With the road victory, Anaheim snapped a four-game winless skid and improved to 8-20-3 on the season.
Klingberg scored twice, breaking a third period 2-2 tie minutes after the Canadiens had erased a two-goal Ducks lead.

Playing at the Bell Centre for the first time

, Trevor Zegras tallied two points, a pair of primary assists just 28 seconds apart that put Anaheim ahead early.
Klingberg, Troy Terry, Adam Henrique and Frank Vatrano scored for the Ducks, who have now won four of their last five games against the Canadiens. Mason McTavish collected two assists for his fifth career multi-point game.
Dostal was terrific all night for Anaheim in his fifth career start, stopping 23-of-25 Montreal shots and earning his second career NHL win.

Cole Caufield twice scored for the Canadiens, who dropped to 14-14-2 and 7-8-0 on home ice.
Veteran netminder Jake Allen made 27 saves in his 20th start for Montreal.
Anaheim led by two after the opening period thanks to a couple of quick goals on back-to-back shifts.
After killing a slashing penalty on one end, Anaheim would get its own opportunity on the man advantage less than a minute later. As the Ducks worked the puck around the perimeter of the zone following a faceoff win, McTavish found Zegras in the left faceoff circle with a cross-seam slap pass. Zegras stepped in to sell a potential shot, but instead zipped a pass right onto Terry's tape in front of the net, which the winger tapped past Allen to put the Ducks ahead first.

With the assist, Zegras (99 points in 130 career games) passed former Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf (97, 139) for second-most points by a Duck prior to their 22nd birthday and now trails only Paul Kariya (147, 129).
McTavish tallied his 11th assist of the season with the secondary helper. The 19-year-old skated in his 40th career NHL game tonight and now owns 6-13=19 points. He seems to have found a home in the right faceoff circle on Anaheim's first power-play unit, with seven power-play points this season.
Terry leads the Ducks in goals (12) and power-play goals (four). Since the start of the 2021-22 season, the 25-year-old has totaled 49 goals and 95 points in 106 games.
Power-play goals have come in bunches for Anaheim this season. The Ducks have scored multiple power-play goals in a game on five occasions this season, but have just two total goals on the man advantage in the other 26 games.
Terry's goal snapped a 167:51 goal drought for the Ducks after shutout losses to the Maple Leafs and Senators, but the next cause for celebration came not half-a-minute later on another impressive effort by Zegras.
This time the 21-year-old center gained the Montreal blue line and weaved his way through the Habs defense across the slot from left to right, eventually leaving a drop pass for the trailing Klingberg, who beat Allen through the five-hole.

The two goals, 28 seconds apart, marked the second time Anaheim has scored twice within a 30-second span this season (also Nov. 6 vs. FLA).
With two assists on the night, Zegras is now one point shy of 100 for his 130-game NHL career. Kariya (98) and Bobby Ryan (126) are the only Ducks to accomplish the feat in less than 140 games.
Klingberg, who would add the decisive goal later on, has 3-7=10 points in his first 24 games as a Duck and eight points in his last 15 appearances.
That sudden two-goal lead would last all the way until the early minutes of the third, when Caufield followed up his longtime buddy Zegras' quick-strike first period with a pair of goals himself, scored 3:26 apart.
The first came on a power-play one-timer from the left circle, beating Dostal just inside the short side post despite a good read from the Anaheim netminder.
Jonathan Drouin grabbed the secondary assist, his first point since returning to the lineup after a month-long absence due to an upper-body injury.
Former third-overall pick Kirby Dach also grabbed an assist and now has points in back-to-back games. Dach ranks fourth in career scoring among players selected in the 2019 NHL Draft, trailing only Zegras, New Jersey's Jack Hughes and Buffalo's Dylan Cozens.
Caufield scored again on his next shift, tracking down an errant shot behind the net and winning the race to the far post on the wraparound to even the score at two.
The 21-year-old Caufield, who played his final pre-draft seasons with Zegras at the U.S. National Development Team and ranks fifth among those 2019 draftees, has goals in four of his last six games and a team-leading 19 on the season, tied for seventh among league leaders.
Just minutes later, the newest Duck, Jayson Megna, came mere inches from answering right back for Anaheim on an odd-man rush, beating Allen over the shoulder but ringing it right off the left post. Shattenkirk did the same on the next shift, getting his shot through traffic from the right point but finding nothing but iron as a reward.
But for visitors it would be the third time that proved to be the charm, with the Ducks finally breaking through for the go-ahead goal on Klingberg's second of the night. Vatrano worked the puck off the left wing wall, spotting Klingberg open at the far point. The first-year Duck defenseman took the pass from his fellow offseason signee, quickly winding up to use Canadiens defenseman Jordan Harris as a screen and firing his shot past Allen to the blocker side.

The eventual game-winner marked Klingberg's fifth career multi-goal game and his first as a Duck.
Henrique and Vatrano sealed the deal with a couple of empty-net goals in the game's last two minutes, after a few clutch saves from Dostal, clinching a 4-2 Ducks victory.

With two points on the night, Henrique now has 200 in his career as a Duck.
The Ducks conclude their four-game Canadian road trip Saturday afternoon in Edmonton.