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Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier celebrates his goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Calgary Flames Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier celebrates his goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Calgary Flames Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
ANAHEIM — Another game meant another rally for the Ducks as they came from behind once more on Sunday, when they trailed for most of the match but edged out the Calgary Flames, 3-2 in a shootout, at Honda Center.
The Ducks, who are now 7-0-0 in shootouts this season, have won 12 of their past 14 games. Calgary had been shut out by the Kings 25 hours earlier in a game that snapped its two-game win streak to begin a two-game losing streak.
Cutter Gauthier scored a pair of goals to stretch his team-topping total to 28. Lukáš Dostál repelled 32 pucks.
Joel Farabee and Yegor Sharangovich each had a goal for Calgary. Devin Cooley made 33 stops.
In the shootout, Leo Carlsson’s silky backhand was matched by Nazem Kadri’s rising wrister. The winner came from Mason McTavish, who executed a slowed-down version of his patented move that finished with a shot through the wickets of Cooley.
In the final 2:48 of overtime, Beckett Sennecke nearly ended the game off a partial breakaway with Calgary’s Kadri and the Ducks’ Ryan Poehling also got involved.
The Flames appeared to be content to go to a shootout until Kadri drove the net and tested Dostál with a backhand. At the other end, Poehling nearly scored in tight and Morgan Frost interfered with Jacob Trouba. Gauthier’s buzzer-beating bid for a hat trick didn’t go, sending the affair to a shootout.
With pressure mounting, the Ducks drew a penalty against Calgary captain Mikael Backlund and cashed in on the power play. After some early miscues, they scored nearly halfway through their infraction off a Gauthier one-timer from the right dot with 9:19 left in regulation.
The hosts and visitors swapped goals in the second period, with the Ducks tying the game at 11:14 and retroceding the lead 4:56 later. The Ducks threatened, thanks in part to a late power play, but went into the second intermission down 2-1.
As a Flames power play wound down, Sharangovich, who had withstood pressure from two penalty killers to start a puck reversal, got it back in the right circle. There, he maneuvered inside of Pavel Mintyukov to open a shooting lane for a far-side, go-ahead goal.
The Ducks had squared up the score by way of Gauthier’s team-topping 27th goal. He set a pick on Kadri in the neutral zone and burst forth to follow up Carlsson’s shot attempt with one shot on net, then a second and finally a third from below the goal line that ricocheted off Cooley’s mask and back before entering the net.
In the first period, Farabee was at the center of the action. His interference with Dostál drew a crowd in the corner, and a penalty against Calgary, but it was Farabee himself scoring the only goal of the frame.
As the Flames regrouped in the neutral zone, Farabee came off the bench for Adam Klapka and skated unimpeded from the red line to the netfront, where his redirection goal gave Calgary the lead 9:41 after the opening draw.
On deck await the Colorado Avalanche, the NHL’s best team by record this season.
