Ducks score 1st 2 power-play goals of season, hand Sharks 7th loss in row

ANAHEIM -- Troy Terry and Leo Carlsson scored the first two power-play goals of the season for the Anaheim Ducks in a 3-1 win against the San Jose Sharks at Honda Center on Tuesday.

Anaheim was 0-for-20 with the man-advantage prior to Terry’s goal early in the second period.

Carlsson scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period, Alex Killorn scored, and Cutter Gauthier had two assists for the Ducks (3-2-1), who had lost two in a row. Lukas Dostal made 27 saves.

"I thought, for most of that game, we skated well and we played well," Terry said. "That was the way we want to play, and we all needed that going into the (four-game road) trip."

Mikael Granlund scored, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 37 saves for the Sharks (0-5-2).

"We've got to find a way to win a hockey game," San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. "We've done some really good things for six or seven games. You can arguably say our record could be different, but at the end of the day our record is what it says. Our guys are digging in. We care, we're trying, it's going to come. We've just got to keep plugging away."

Anaheim entered the game 0-for-17 on the power play this season and went 0-for-3 in the first period before San Jose forward Will Smith tripped Olen Zellweger at 6:29 of the second period.

Terry then gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 6:56, scoring their first goal with the man-advantage. He received a breakout pass from Jackson LaCombe at his own blue line and carried the puck through the neutral zone before scoring with a wrist shot from the high slot.

"When you get frustrated, you try to do too much sometimes, and I think that's kind of been the case the last few games, myself included," Terry said of the power play. "Just trying to force things and trying a little too hard. I thought tonight we just played off each other more."

Granlund tied it 1-1 at 4:55 of the third period with a power-play goal on a wrist shot from above the right point that deflected in off the blade of LaCombe.

Carlsson scored just 41 seconds later to put Anaheim back ahead 2-1 off a rebound in the crease.

Killorn scored an empty-net goal at 18:09 for the 3-1 final.

Gauthier assisted on both power-play goals for his first multipoint game in the NHL. He was briefly benched for poor play in Anaheim's home opener against the Utah Hockey Club on Oct. 16, a 5-4 overtime win.

"I'm capable of it, it's just knowing that," Gauthier said. "Just playing the last couple games, I felt like I took a step in the right direction each game and, obviously, it was nice to get on the scoresheet to score for it. The most important thing is we got the job done and we won."

The Sharks had the best scoring opportunity in the scoreless first period.

Danil Gushchin's shot off the rush clipped Dostal's arm at 6:47, hit the crossbar, came down on the goal line and then slid off the post before Anaheim defenseman Brian Dumoulin swept the puck out of the crease.

"You've got to be lucky sometimes, too," Dostal said.

After the Ducks took a 1-0 lead, the Sharks hit the post again on a deflection by Barclay Goodrow before Dostal covered the puck with 16 seconds left.

"We just have to stick together as a team, pick each other up off the ice," San Jose defenseman Cody Ceci said. "It's tough what we're going through. We are competing hard, we're working hard, just not getting the results. It's results-based, so we need to get a win. We need to find a way to get it and just be there for each other until we get it."

NOTES: Sharks defenseman Jack Thompson assisted on Granlund's goal for his first NHL point. ... Terry has four goals in his past five games, and extended his point streak to five (four goals, one assist). ... Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov returned after missing the 4-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday (illness) and played 18:07. ... Ducks center Isac Lundestrom returned after missing the past two games with an upper-body injury and had three shots on goal in 14:52 of ice time.