Ducks top Red Wings in shootout for third straight win to open season

ANAHEIM -- The Anaheim Ducks matched the best start in their history with a 3-2 shootout victory against the Detroit Red Wings at Honda Center on Monday.

Hampus Lindholm and Jakob Silfverberg scored for the Ducks, who won their first three games for the first time since 2006-07, when they won the Stanley Cup.
Rookie forward Troy Terry scored the only goal of the shootout, and John Gibson made 19 saves through overtime before denying all three Red Wings shooters.
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"He's been our MVP for the three games," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said of Gibson, who has made the save on 91 of 95 shots he's faced in the three wins.
Tyler Bertuzzi and Darren Helm scored for the Red Wings, who have not won through three games for the first time since 1991-92.
Jimmy Howard made 25 saves, including three in overtime, and got an assist on Helm's goal.
Howard made saves on Rickard Rakell and Sam Steel in the shootout, but Terry scored in the second round with a quick wrist shot between the goalie's pads.

Terry gained recognition at the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship, when he scored three shootout goals on three attempts to give the United States a 4-3 win against Russia in the semifinals. He said he used the same move against Howard.
"It's no secret that I've done that before," he said. "I feel a lot of pressure on those things now, every time I go over the boards and take one. It worked out again."
Thomas Vanek missed the net on Detroit's first shootout attempt, Frans Nielsen lost the puck as he tried to make a move on the second, and Gibson ended the game when he made the save on Gustav Nyquist's attempt to slide the puck through his pads.
Silfverberg tied the game 2-2 at 8:29 of the third period. After Howard made the initial save on Adam Henrique, Silfverberg shot the rebound off Howard's pad, and the puck bounced off Silfverberg and into the net.
"We didn't create as much offense as we wanted to, but in the third you could see us moving our legs a lot more," said Silfverberg, who has five points (one goal, four assists). "Obviously, the goal was a lucky break, but if you go to those areas, every once in a while you get lucky like that."

Helm gave the Red Wings a 2-1 lead at 14:56 of the second period. His shot off the rush was blocked by Ducks defenseman Brandon Montour, but Helm sent the puck back toward the net with a backhand, and it skidded between Gibson's pads.
"We scored and I thought we were probably better through most of [the first] period and then through the second period," Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. "I thought we had big-time chances that their goalie made real big saves."
Bertuzzi gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead at 11:06 of the first period.
Gibson played the puck behind the net and rimmed it around the right corner, but Nielsen trapped the puck inside the blue line. He lost the puck as he tried to spin around Henrique, but it went to Rasmussen, who made a quick backhand pass between Lindholm and Montour onto Bertuzzi's stick at the bottom of the right face-off circle.
Bertuzzi turned his back to Gibson as he received the pass, then continued his 360-degree rotation as he crossed in front of the crease, beating Gibson with a quick shot.
"That's not a typical [Bertuzzi] goal, by any means," Howard said.

Rasmussen, selected by Detroit with the No. 9 pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, earned his first NHL point with the assist.
The Ducks tied it 1-1 at 10:57 of the second. Lindholm trapped the puck at the Red Wings blue line and skated around forward Anthony Mantha before beating Howard over his glove with a wrist shot from the left circle.

They said it

"Tonight, we were right there, but we've got to find a way to flip the switch from being on the wrong end of these games." -- Detroit goaltender Jimmy Howard
"We're 3-0 right now, but the first two games we thought that we could play a little bit better and clean up some areas. … The first two periods (Monday) were a step in the right direction but still not to where we can be." -- Ducks forward Jakob Silfverberg

Need to know

In addition to Terry and Steel, the Ducks had three other rookie forwards in the lineup: Max Comtois, Kiefer Sherwood and Isac Lundestrom. … Comtois had an assist on Silfverberg's goal to give him a point (two goals, one assist) in each of his first three NHL games. He joins Corey Perry as the second rookie in Ducks history to do so.

What's next

Red Wings: Host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday (7:30 p.m. ET; FS-D, TSN4, NHL.TV)
Ducks: Host the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; PRIME, FS-A, NHL.TV)