Recap: Zegras Scores Twice, Ducks Rally for Comeback Win over Flyers

The Ducks overcame an early two-goal deficit, rallying for a 5-3 comeback victory over the Philadelphia Flyers tonight at Wells Fargo Center.
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With the win, the Ducks earned a season sweep of the Flyers, outscoring their Eastern Conference opponent 9-4 in two games. Anaheim also improved to 29-32-12 (70 points) on the season, sixth in the Pacific Division.
Trevor Zegras scored twice, including his fifth career game-winning goal, becoming the third Ducks rookie to reach 20 goals in their first full NHL season. Zegras has six points in his last six games and ranks third among NHL rookies in scoring and assists.
Sonny Milano, Zach Aston-Reese and Derek Grant also scored for Anaheim while Jamie Drysdale and Andrej Sustr notched two assists apiece.
Drysdale became the fourth Ducks rookie defenseman to eclipse 30 points, joining Cam Fowler, Francois Beauchemin and Hampus Lindholm. Drysdale co-leads first-year blueliners in games played (72) and ranks second in scoring (4-26=30) and assists.
Making his first career start against the club that selected him 45th overall in the 2012 NHL Draft, Anthony Stolarz made 30 saves to earn his career-best 11th win of the season.
Travis Sanheim, Ronnie Attard and Ivan Provorov scored for Philadelphia. Martin Jones made 29 saves.
The first period was all Flyers, especially in the game's opening minutes as the home team jumped out to a two-goal lead before the first television timeout.
Philly went ahead less than two minutes into the action when Sanheim's shot from the top of the circle trickled through Stolarz and just over the goal line. Attard doubled the lead 48 seconds later with his first NHL goal, getting a point bid through traffic after the Flyers cleanly corralled an offensive zone faceoff.
The Ducks flipped the script in the second period though, controlling the play throughout the middle frame and outscoring the Flyers 3-0 to take the lead into the third.
Milano put the Ducks on the board three minutes into the period, spinning away from a Flyers defender and potting the rebound from Jamie Drysdale's point shot over Jones' outstretched leg pad.

The goal snapped an 11-game scoring drought for Milano, who ranks fifth among team leaders in goals (13) and is now one short of his career high set with Columbus in 2017-18.
Cam Fowler collected the secondary helper, matching his single-season career high (30) for the second time.
Like Philadelphia did in the initial period, Anaheim struck again quickly after its first of the night, tying the game on Aston-Reese's second goal as a Duck. Adam Henrique pulled the puck off the wall and quickly fired a shot towards the net, where Aston-Reese redirected it past Jones to even the score.

Aston-Reese has scored in two of his last three games and has three points in his last four appearances (3-1=4).
Henrique grabbed his 20th assist of the season on the goal and has now found the scoresheet in five of his last six games (1-4=5).
Zegras gave Anaheim its first lead of the night later in the frame, blasting a slapshot from the right faceoff circle past Jones for a power-play goal. Urho Vaakanainen held the puck in the middle of the ice, just inside the blue line, freezing the defense while considering passing options to either side. The newest Ducks defender eventually decided to work to his right, feeding Zegras for the one-timer to put the Ducks ahead.

Vaakanainen has two points in six games since his trade deadline acquisition from Boston.
Philadelphia fought back early in the third on a give-and-go by Provorov and former Duck Nate Thompson, with the latter setting up the former for a quick shot from the low slot that beat Stolarz to tie the game at three.
Zegras scored his second of the night and what would become the game-winning goal with just over eight minutes to play in regulation. The rookie forward spun away from a check behind the Philadelphia net and tried to direct a pass towards linemate Troy Terry at the side of the net, but Provorov got his stick in the way. Unfortunately for the sixth-year Flyer though, the puck bounced right off his blade and past his unsuspecting netminder to give the Ducks the back-breaking goal.

Grant added a crucial insurance tally minutes later on a perfect setup feed by Sustr, who spotted the veteran forward on the backdoor and delivered a pass right on the tape to give the Ducks a two-goal cushion.

Stolarz sealed the deal with a few big saves late, including an aggressive stop on Anaheim Hills native Cam York with just over a minute to play.
The Ducks conclude the season's final back-to-back tomorrow against the Carolina Hurricanes.