Strome has 2 points, lifts Ducks past Devils

ANAHEIM -- Ryan Strome scored the tie-breaking goal with 3:24 left and the Anaheim Ducks recovered for a 3-2 win against the New Jersey Devils at Honda Center on Tuesday.

Strome scored with a slap shot from above the right circle with Troy Terry providing a screen to give Anaheim the lead after it had surrendered a two-goal advantage in the third.

Strome also assisted on Terry's goal, Robby Fabbri scored and Lukas Dostal made 32 saves for the Ducks (15-17-4), who have won two in a row.

"There's going to be different guys contributing at different times of the year," Strome said. "Right now, we're getting contributions, whether it's goals or blocks or penalty kills, from everybody and that's what it takes to win in this League."

Strome scored the tie-breaking goal with 2:36 left in a 5-3 comeback win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers on Sunday, making him the 14th player in NHL history to score a game-winning goal in the final five minutes of regulation in consecutive games.

Jonas Siegenthaler and Timo Meier scored and Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves for the Devils (24-13-3). With Saturday's 5-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, the Devils have lost consecutive games in regulation for the first time since Oct. 22-24.

“The chances we gave up were completely egregious," New Jersey coach Sheldon Keefe said. "You have no chance to win in the NHL playing like that. It was disgraceful.”

Anaheim took a 1-0 lead into the first intermission after the Devils outshot the Ducks 15-5 and hit the crossbar twice.

Anaheim did not have a shot on goal until Terry scored at 10:05.

The Ducks won the puck on the forecheck and Strome passed the puck from below the goal line to Terry at the left hash marks and he fluttered the puck into the net for his team-leading 11th goal of the season.

"We're trying to work as hard as we can," Strome said. "The goals are coming a little more now, so we're starting to see some better results."

Fabbri hit the same crossbar with a backhand try on a breakaway at 16:51 of the second period, but he finished off a 2-on-1 to extend the lead to 2-0 at 3:57 of the third.

Anaheim defenseman Brian Dumoulin poked the puck ahead to Gauthier to spark the 2-on-1. Gauthier passed the puck from the left circle to Fabbri in the right circle and he skated in before scoring up high from in close.

Fabbri, Gauthier and fellow linemate Mason McTavish also scored in the win against Edmonton.

"We’re just communicating well on the ice, on the bench," Fabbri said. "We’re just complementing each other right now. Cutter is skating great, creating plays. 'Mac-T' is playing like a horse out there."

The Devils cut it to 2-1 at 5:31 when a point shot by Siegenthaler nicked off the stick of Anaheim forward Brett Leason and into the net.

Markstrom stopped McTavish on a breakaway at 13:09 and the Devils went the other way on a rush with Meier scoring with a wrist shot from the high slot to tie it 2-2 at 13:20.

"'Marky' was great," Keefe said. "He deserved two points here today and he should be very upset with his teammates tonight."

NOTES: Meier's goal was his 16th against the Ducks, the most against any opponent. ... Markstrom came in 9-0-1 in his last 10 games against Anaheim. ... New Jersey, which entered the day tied with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the NHL lead with 50 second-period goals, was outshot 11-6 in the second. ... The Ducks went 0-for-3 in the power play and are 0-for-16 in the past four games. ... The Ducks are 14-0-1 when scoring three or more goals this season. Gauthier's assist on Fabbri's goal gave him five points (one goal, four assists) in his past five games. ... Fabbri has six points (four goals, two assists) in his last five games. ... Anaheim defenseman Jackson LaCombe assisted on Strome's goal to give him eight points (two goals, six assists) in his past nine games.