Terry has 3 points, Ducks rally to defeat Jets in OT for 3rd straight win

WINNIPEG -- Troy Terry scored his second goal of the game 3:34 into overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks rallied for a 4-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre on Thursday.

Terry finished a 2-on-1 to give the Ducks the victory while play continued when the Anaheim net was knocked off its moorings.

“When I saw the puck come out, I obviously got pretty excited because I knew it was going to be an odd-man rush,” Terry said of the game-winner. “And then with the net coming off I wasn't positive what the rules were.

“I felt like until I got to the red line, I wasn't sure if they were going to blow it down or not, and then once I kind of got up, I just -- I was looking to get it to Jackson LaCombe. I would have loved to get it over to him, but it worked out.”

Terry’s second goal came after Radko Gudas tied it 3-3 with a slap shot near the blue line at 18:10 of the third period with Ducks goalie John Gibson pulled for the extra skater.

“We’re diggin’ and scrapin’ and clawin,’” Anaheim coach Greg Cronin said. “We’ve have a hard time scoring and I thought tonight was a really good bounce after we get down 2-zip. The good thing is the bench was staying calm and positive.

“We were very fortunate to get the third goal on the pulled goalie there. I don’t know how it went in, but I think we just have a really good mentality as a team. We don’t get too rattled by what the score is.”

Terry and Gudas also each had an assist, and Leo Carlsson scored for the Ducks (16-7-4), who have won three straight and four of six. Gibson made 27 saves.

“I think [Gibson] is extremely underappreciated in the NHL,” Terry said. “I think he’s genuinely one of the best goalies in this league. And I think for him to miss a lot at the start of the year, be sick coming out of the break, it just seems every time he goes in there he just gives you that sense of calmness and he makes the big saves.”

Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist, and Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry also scored for the Jets (27-11-2), who have lost two straight after winning four in a row. Connor Hellebuyck made 20 saves, and Josh Morrissey had two assists.

“They’re a young group that’s got a lot of speed,” Winnipeg coach Scott Arniel said. “They transition really well. We watched them do it (in wins) against Edmonton and New Jersey this last week. If you’re going to make mistakes, they’re going to capitalize. They’re a young team that’s added some veterans and they were trying to play a certain way tonight. We fed them with some of the mistakes we made and gave them some opportunities.”

Scheifele scored 33 seconds into the first period to give Winnipeg a 1-0 lead. Gabriel Vilardi won a puck battle in the corner and got it to Kyle Connor, whose pass found Scheifele for a quick shot from the slot.

"We came out really well in the first, obviously a great start,” Morrissey said. “I thought there were some points in time where we could have managed the puck better at the blue lines. But I thought we actually did a good job of kind of losing momentum, getting it back, and playing a pretty solid third period until giving up that tying goal. Those are some things we can clean up.”

Iafallo set up Lowry on a 2-on-1 rush to make it 2-0 at 17:17 of the first.

“There’s a calmness and a confidence on the bench, you can feel it,” Cronin said. “Even when we were down 2-0, there was no panic. Our leadership group -- we’ve got a bunch of guys who are 30 years and older and bunch of guys who are 23 years old and younger -- and I think the older group has kind of taken ownership of the culture here.”

Carlsson cut it to 2-1 at 18:58. His tip of Gudas’ point shot bounced off the ice, hit the post, and then off the back of Hellebuyck’s leg before trickling across the goal line.

“I thought in the first we were great, and we had all kinds of opportunities,” Arniel said. “Then in the second period, through the neutral zone we turned some pucks over and kind of let them get into some rush situations.”

Terry tied it 2-2 at 6:52 of the second period with a one-timer from the left face-off dot, beating Hellebuyck five-hole.

“I think that's kind of the maturity of this team, it’s just being able to, instead of getting pushed out of the game when it's like that early, just to kind of settle in and be confident, and going down again with [2:44] left or whatever,” Terry said. “A big thing we talked about this summer was just how many one-goal losses we had last year.

“So it just feels like there's a bit of a belief in here that even if we go down, we can we can come back and we're kind of not out of any game. It's a big character win for us.”

Iafallo’s wraparound put the Jets ahead 3-2 at 17:16 of the third.

“It was kind of a roller coaster of a game,” Iafallo said. “I just think we didn’t have enough pressure moving forward… We just have to have a strong three periods. It would have been a different game, I think.”

NOTES: Anaheim’s fourth multi-goal comeback win of the season is tied with the Vegas Golden Knights for the second most in the NHL behind the Seattle Kraken (five). … Terry has six points (four goals, two assists) on a four-game point streak. … Gibson assisted on the overtime winner for the goaltender’s seventh career point, passing Jean-Sebastien Giguere for sole possession of the second most in Ducks history, behind only Jonas Hiller (eight). … Carlsson (20 years, 7 days) scored his 20th NHL goal and became the youngest player in Ducks history to reach the mark, besting Mason McTavish (20 years, 257 days on Oct. 14, 2023). … Ducks forward Frank Vatrano skated in his 600th NHL game. … Scheifele scored his fourth career goal in the opening-minute of a game, which is the third most in Jets/Thrashers history behind Nikolaj Ehlers (six) and Bryan Little (five).