WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Ducks have been rising to the occasion more often lately.
Troy Terry scored his second goal of the game at 3:34 of overtime to give the Ducks a 4-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night – their second win against the Western Conference-leading Jets in a little more than two weeks, a stretch that has seen the Ducks topple several of the NHL’s top teams.
Terry added an assist in a three-point night, Radko Gudas and Leo Carlsson also scored and John Gibson stopped 27 shots for the Ducks (16-7-4), who have won three straight and four of their past six games.
The Ducks’ three-game winning streak has come against teams who are a collective 38 games over .500 (72-34-7). They defeated the New Jersey Devils (at the time, the top team in the East), the Edmonton Oilers and the Jets, all with third-period rallies. The Ducks trailed both the Oilers (Sunday) and the Jets by two goals before coming back to win in regulation and OT, respectively.
Terry also scored the game-winner with 24 seconds left in regulation when the Ducks rallied to beat the Jets, 3-2, on Dec. 18 at Honda Center.
Gudas forced overtime in Thursday’s game when his screened shot from the point beat Connor Hellebuyck with 1:50 left in regulation and Gibson off for an extra attacker.
Alex Iafallo, Adam Lowry and Mark Scheifele scored for the Jets (27-11-2), who lost their second straight game.
After allowing the first goal just 33 seconds into the game, the Ducks hung tough enough to tie it at 2-2 in the second, then rebounded from a late 3-2 deficit.
Scheifele opened the scoring with his early goal. He pounced on a backhand pass from Kyle Connor in front and potted it into the open net. Gabe Vilardi, who stole the puck along the boards and passed to Connor, got the second assist to extend his point streak to five games.
Lowry put the Jets up 2-0 late in the first when he converted a 2-on-1 with Iafallo. Iafallo saucered a pass to a racing Lowry, who then wristed a shot past Gibson.
Carlsson got the Ducks on the board when he deflected a shot past Hellebuyck with 1:02 left in the first period. Gudas shot from the point and Carlsson deflected it in behind Hellebuyck’s back.
Terry tied the score at 2-2 at 6:52 of the second period when he beat Hellebuyck five-hole from a bad angle after a pass from Ryan Strome.
After Iafallo gave the Jets a 3-2 lead with a wraparound goal with 2:44 left in regulation, but Gudas tied it with his screened shot from the point less than a minute later.
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The Ducks are at Edmonton on Friday at 6 p.m. PT.