Recap: Terry, Zegras Score as Ducks Extend Point Streak in 3-2 OT Loss

The Ducks twice fought back from one-goal deficits, but could not find the overtime winner, falling 3-2 to the Washington Capitals tonight at Honda Center.
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Despite the setback, Anaheim extended its point streak to four games (2-0-2), one shy of its best run of the season, and earned three of four possible standings point in a two-game season series with Washington. The Ducks now sit 20-34-8 for the year and 10-16-2 on home ice.
Trevor Zegras and Troy Terry scored for Anaheim, with Zegras scoring the game-tying goal midway through the period as part of a two-point night. Cam Fowler, Mason McTavish and Kevin Shattenkirk added assists. John Gibson made 36 saves.
Tom Wilson scored twice for Washington, including his third career overtime goal. Martin Fehervary also scored, while Darcy Kuemper earned the win in net with 21 stops.
Washington struck for the night's first goal midway through the first period on just the latest spectacular pass in the career of Nicklas Backstrom. As the Capitals worked the puck to Backstrom near the right point, Fehervary raced to the net on left wing, taking a pass from the veteran center and tucking a wrister past Gibson inside the near post.
A former second-round selection by Washington now in his second full NHL season, Fehervary has points in three of his last four games (1-2=3).
The assist was the 754th of Backstrom's decorated career, third among active players and 45th in NHL history.
With the secondary helper, defenseman Dylan McIlrath collected his sixth career NHL point, his first since the 2016-17 season with Florida.
The Ducks responded five minutes later on their own outstanding individual effort, as Terry showed the puck-handling skills that have established him as one of the game's best danglers. The two-time All-Star winger accepted a pass in the neutral zone and danced around two defenders near the blue line, waiting until the last possible moment, and using the McIlrath as a screen, before lifting a shot over Kuemper's blocker to tie the game.

Terry has scored in each of his first four games since returning from a lower-body injury. He owns 5-6=11 points in his last nine games and now sits three points shy of his second consecutive 50-point season.
Zegras has three assists in his last three games (1-3=4) and is within six helpers of his rookie total from last season (38). Now three weeks shy of his 22nd birthday, Zegras leads Anaheim in points (20-32=52), goals and assists this season.
The 1-1 score lasted until quite literally the initial moments of the third period, thanks in part to a terrific middle frame by Gibson. The netminder's best work came on a lunging robbery of his former teammate Sonny Milano, who came inches from finsihing off a backdoor pass but could not get the puck past Gibson's right leg.

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would have little chance to stop the Caps from restoring the lead in the first 10 seconds of the third though, as Washington made Anaheim pay for a defensive zone miscue. As the Ducks tried to break the puck out of their zone, defenseman Trevor Van Riemsdyk intercepted the clearing attempt, turning and delivering a one-timer to Wilson open in the slot for the go-ahead goal.
Wilson, who made his season debut in early January after offseason MCL surgery, has scored in four of his last six games (4-1=5). With the assist, the ninth-year NHLer Van Riemsdyk established a new career high in points (6-12=18).
Much like the first though, Anaheim wasted little time in finding the game's tying goal, with a thoroughly fired-up Zegras doing the honors. After the young center was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the second period and did not take another shift before intermission, Zegras channelled that passion with a hard drive to the net, finding the rebound from McTavish's shot in tight and slamming it home.

He celebrated the goal in typical Zegras fashion, wearing his emotion on his sleeve as he pounded the boards in front of celebrating Ducks fans.

With the goal, Zegras became the first Duck in franchise history with two 20-goal seasons prior to his 22nd birthday.
McTavish drew the primary helper and now has four assists in his last two games (0-4=4). The 20-year-old is second among NHL rookies in scoring (13-23=36) and tied for third in assists. McTavish's 36 points on the season is seventh-most by a Ducks rookie and three short of Ryan Getzlaf's 2005-06 campaign.
Washington grabbed the extra standings point early in the bonus period when Wilson drove the net and had T.J. Oshie's centering pass bounce off his foot and over the line, clinching the Caps' 3-2 victory.
Anaheim concludes its three-game homestand Friday against Montreal.