Chris Kreider collects 4 points as Ducks down Canadiens in shootout
Chris Kreider scored the tying goal in the last minute of regulation and had three assists for the Anaheim Ducks, who recovered for a 6-5 shootout win against the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Friday.
Cutter Gauthier, Leo Carlsson and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist and Alex Killorn scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of the shootout for the Ducks, who are 7-1-0 in their past eight games.
Anaheim's Radko Gudas also scored, and Lukas Dostal made 23 saves.
Cole Caufield had two goals and an assist while Lane Hutson had a goal and two assists for the Canadiens, who have lost three of four (1-1-2). Nick Suzuki collected a goal and an assist, Alexandre Carrier added a goal, and Samuel Montembeault stopped 28 shots.
Carlsson scored 35 seconds into the third period to give Anaheim a 4-2 lead. Kreider stripped Hutson of the puck in the neutral zone, brought it to the right circle and fed Carlsson at the left hashmark for a wrist shot that went over Montembeault's blocker.
Caufield pulled the Canadiens within one when he one-timed a pass from Dobson from the left circle at 8:41.
Carrier tied it 4-4 at 11:47. He caught a puck out of the air above the slot and snapped it through traffic past Dostal's glove.
Less than a minute and a half later, Caufield put the Canadiens ahead 5-4 with a tip of Dobson's shot from the left circle.
With Dostal pulled for an extra attacker, Kreider tipped Jacob Trouba's point shot to tie it 5-5 at 19:18.
Gauthier gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead 39 seconds into the first period, snapping a one-timer from low in the right circle off a feed from Carlsson.
Suzuki tied it 22 seconds later. Caufield was along the goal line to feed Suzuki in the slot for a quick wrist shot that beat Dostal on the glove side.
Hutson scored on a snap shot blocker side on the power play to put the visitors ahead 2-1 at 3:33 of the opening period.
Gudas' one-timer from the right point beat Montembeault in the top right corner at 11:56 of the first to pull the Ducks even.
LaCombe's shot from the right point on the power made it 3-2 Anaheim at 12:15 of the second period.