New York took a 2-0 lead in the first period on power-play goals. Trocheck scored backdoor off a pass from Zibanejad at 7:34, and Zibanejad beat Ducks forward Max Jones to the bottom of the right face-off circle and scored off a feed from Trocheck at 13:10.
"We win a lot of pucks back and that's usually when things open up on the power play," Zibanejad said. "And I think we have a pretty good group, two groups, of being able to make those plays when they're there."
Frank Vatrano made it 2-1 at 15:48, and Zegras tied it 2-2 at 1:34 of the second.
"Their one power-play goal in the first was a gift, absolute missed responsibility, and in the second period we gave them two gifts, I mean absolute gifts," Eakins said. "So, we give them three easy ones and lose by two. That's what's disappointing because there was improvement in our game in a number of areas and then it all gets blown apart by missed responsibilities."
Kaapo Kakko scored at 9:54, deflecting Zibanejad's shot off Gibson's pad and Ducks defenseman John Klingberg's skate to make it 3-2.
Alexis Lafreniere
scored his first of the season at 17:39 with a one-timer from the slot off a pass from Filip Chytil that went between Ducks defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk's legs for the 4-2 lead.
Panarin scored with a wrist shot from between the top of the circles to make it 5-2 at 19:26. It came seconds after the Rangers intercepted Klingberg's stretch pass out of the defensive zone.
"You look at the teams that are champions in this league, whether it's Colorado, Tampa, St. Louis, they never won because they were skilled, they won because they work," Eakins said. "They work and they're relentless with it. It doesn't matter if they have the puck or they don't have the puck, they work. That's part of our development process here and our growing process is that when we don't have the puck we have to work harder."