Strome scores in OT, Ducks top Hurricanes to end six-game slide

ANAHEIM -- Ryan Strome scored at 1:56 of overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks ended a six-game skid with a 4-3 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at Honda Center on Tuesday.

Anaheim caught Carolina on a change, and Strome finished a 2-on-1 with Cam Fowler for his second overtime goal this season.
"I wanted to pass, but the shot was there and I shot it," Strome said. "Lucky it went in. Nice play by Cam and I thought we possessed the puck well in overtime."
John Gibson made 34 saves, and Adam Henrique, Max Comtois and Brett Leason scored for the Ducks (7-17-3), who went 0-4-2 during their slide.
"They're a quick team," Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins said. "They're one of the elite teams in the League, and to get two points against a team like that is certainly encouraging."
Brady Skjei, Sebastian Aho and Jordan Staal scored, and Pyotr Kochetkov made 26 saves for Carolina (14-6-6), which had its four-game winning streak end but has an eight-game point streak on the road (4-0-4).
"Mentally, you could tell, right from the start of the game, we were not ready to go," Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "Not from a lack of effort, just the sharpness was not there."

Carolina tied the game for a third time when Staal deflected a point shot from Brent Burns at 15:49 of the third period to make it 3-3.
"You know 'Burnsy,' he's going to let it rip however he can," Staal said. "I was in the right spot at the right time, got a good little stick on it and I'll take it."

Henrique gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 3:59 of the first period, scoring on the rebound of a Kevin Shattenkirk slap shot that glanced off Henrique's stick and hit Hurricanes defenseman Brett Pesce in the throat, causing him to fall to the ice.
Skeji tied it 1-1 at 5:38 when he scored on a wrist shot from the left face-off circle on a pass from Jack Drury, who was credited with his first NHL assist.
"Great play from [center Paul Stastny], gave me the puck there and [Skeji] joined in late, kind of saw him out of the corner of my eye," Drury said. "Great shot by him."
Comtois put the Ducks ahead 2-1 at 11:13 on a one-timer after Jakob Silfverberg stripped the puck from defenseman Jaccob Slavin behind the Hurricanes net and found Comtois, who missed the previous 11 games with a lower-body injury.
"It was a little rocky to start, not going to lie, but obviously getting a goal in the first couple shifts, it's always a good thing," Comtois said. "We have a good line on the forecheck, and we saw it on that play. We can create a lot of things from doing that and it paid off."

Aho tied it 2-2 at 10:16 of the second when Slavin's point shot hit the stick of teammate Seth Jarvis and ricocheted to Aho.
Leason gave Anaheim a 3-2 lead 48 seconds later at 10:59 off a pass from Mason McTavish, who scored for the second straight game.
"It was incredible," Leason said of McTavish's pass. "Obviously, it started on the wall there, [Max Jones] and McTavish went into battle and come down on a 2-on-1. He has good patience with the puck and was able to wait until the right time and find me."
Carolina did not have a shot on goal the first 14:59 of the third.
"At least we came back," Brind'Amour said. "We got back into the game, had a good second period, and then you could see how exhausted we were there in the third. We had no jump."
NOTES: The Hurricanes (10) have played the most overtime games in the NHL this season, followed by the Ducks (nine). ... Jarvis assisted on Aho's goal to extend his point streak to six games (two goals, four assists) ... Aho passed Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek for eighth on the all-time Hurricanes/Hartford Whalers list with 192 goals .... Anaheim has won eight of the past 11 games against Carolina (8-3-0). ... Fowler has 13 points (three goals, 10 assists) in his past 12 games.