Recap: Klingberg, Dostal Run it Back, Lead Ducks to 4-3 Win Over Oilers

John Klingberg broke another third-period tie and Lukas Dostal made 46 saves, guiding the Ducks to a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers today at Rogers Place.
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Anaheim closed its four-game Canadian road trip (2-2-0) with back-to-back victories, improving to 9-20-3 on the season.

Klingberg, Sam Carrick, Cam Fowler and Ryan Strome scored for the Ducks, who also moved to 4-4-0 against divisional opponents this season. Mason McTavish added two assists.
Klingberg became the second Ducks defenseman to score back-to-back game-winning goals (also Sheldon Souray) and the second NHL blueliner to do so this season (also Brett Pesce).

Making his sixth career NHL start, Dostal was excellent again in net for Anaheim, making 46 saves and helping the Ducks protect a one-goal lead in the final minutes of regulation.
Darnell Nurse, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid scored for the Oilers, who fell to 17-14-1 on the season and 9-8-1 on home ice.
Rookie netminder Stuart Skinner made 13 saves.
Anaheim overcame a slow start and an early Oilers goal to take a 2-1 lead to the first intermission, thanks in large part to the youngest player on the ice, McTavish.
Edmonton went ahead first though on a low, hard point shot by Nurse, which snuck through traffic in front of Dostal and just over the goaltender's left pad.
The Oilers defense has been an active part of the club's attack all season, now fourth in the NHL with 73 combined points.
The Ducks seemed to find their game from that point forward, driving the better of play in the back half of the period and capitalizing twice in less than three minutes.
Carrick tied the game on one of the most impressive plays of McTavish's young NHL career. The 19-year-old center collected a pass in the middle of the ice after Jayson Megna had tracked down a dump-in along the boards. McTavish worked his way to the slot, finding himself alone in tight and seemingly ready for a premiere scoring chance, but instead delivered a cross-crease pass right to Carrick, who tapped it home long before Skinner could adjust.

The goal was Carrick's first of the season as he continues to work his way back from offseason hip surgery. Carrick posted career-best marks in goals (11), assists (eight) and points (19) in 64 games a year ago, and now owns 1-2=3 points in 17 appearances this season.
Megna's assist marked his first point as a Duck.
The Ducks struck again 2:42 later on a well-executed power-play, with McTavish spinning away from trouble and leaving a backhand pass to Fowler, which the veteran defenseman hammered through a screened Skinner to put Anaheim ahead.

Fowler has 2-5=7 points in his last 10 games and ranks tied for fourth among NHL defensemen in scoring since Nov. 15 (3-12=15).
The two assists gave McTavish his sixth career multi-point effort, second-most by a teenager in Ducks history, trailing only Fowler (nine).
McTavish also became the fifth teenage Duck to eclipse 20 career points, joining Fowler, Jamie Drysdale, Oleg Tverdovsky and Stanislav Chistov.
Strome added to the Anaheim advantage with a heady veteran play midway through the middle frame, keeping his stick in a passing lane at the Ducks blue line and turning the subsequently deflected pass into a breakaway on Skinner, which he converted with a forehand shot to the glove side.

The first-year Duck, who would an assist later on, has points in back-to-back games (1-2=3) and ranks fourth among team leaders in goals (eight) this season.
The Ducks very nearly took that two-goal lead back to the locker room, but penalty issues that have plagued the club throughout the season reappeared at an inopportune time and would wipe that edge out by the early stages of the third.
The longest tenured Oiler, Nugent-Hopkins, got the home side back within one in the final minute of the second, getting to a loose puck in the low slot that had bounced off several skates in front of Dostal.
Nugent-Hopkins, the first pick in the 2011 NHL Draft, has points in three straight games and seven of his last eight. With 36 points in 32 games this season, Nugent-Hopkins in on pace to average more than one point-per-game for the first time in his 12-year NHL career.
McDavid brought the Oilers back level early in the third on another power-play goal. With Anaheim shorthanded 5-on-3, McDavid darted hard to the backdoor, taking a cross-seam pass from Draisaitl and beating Dostal high to the short side.
With two points on the night, McDavid extended his scoring streak to 12 games, the fourth such run of his NHL career. Only two active NHLers have more 12-game point streaks, Patrick Kane (six) and Nathan MacKinnon (five).
The Edmonton captain has power-play goals in three straight games.
Surrendering a two-goal lead to find themselves tied in the third period for the second straight game, the Ducks would turn to a familiar face for the decisive goal, with Klingberg once again coming through in the clutch.
After a failed Oilers defensive zone clearing attempt, Klingberg activated from his right point position to retrieve a bouncing puck at the hashmarks of the right wing wall. The Swedish blueliner got rid of the puck quickly while under pressure from an Oilers backchecker, lifting a blocker-side shot that seemed to surprise Skinner, who could not fight through a friendly-fire screen to keep the puck out.

Klingberg has three goals in his last two games (3-0=3), including his 22nd and 23rd career game-winning tallies.
That would be all the help Dostal would need, as the rookie netminder was stellar in the final minutes of regulation, helping the Ducks eliminate an Oilers power play and locking down the 4-3 win.

The Ducks return to action Tuesday with the first Freeway Face-Off of the season, taking on the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena.