Thursday, February 15, 2007
FINAL OT
5 - 4
FINAL OT 1 2 3 OT T
Ducks 1 1 2 1 5
Coyotes 2 2 0 0 4
GOAL SCORERS

ANA:   T. Selanne (03:33 - 1st) , C. Pronger (PPG, 19:55 - 2nd) , D. Penner (05:11 - 3rd) , C. Pronger (PPG, 07:32 - 3rd) , T. Selanne (PPG, 01:53 - OT)
PHX:   O. Nolan (12:33 - 1st) , K. Ballard (19:18 - 1st) , M. Tjarnqvist (02:48 - 2nd) , O. Saprykin (06:58 - 2nd)
GOALIES

ANA: J. Giguere (W)
 PHX: C. Joseph (L)
Ducks 5, Coyotes 4, OT
Associated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -Teemu Selanne sensed a lack of urgency in his Anaheim Ducks teammates. Then they got frustrated. And then they rallied.

Selanne scored his second goal on a power play with 3:07 left in overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks erased a three-goal deficit to beat the Phoenix Coyotes 5-4 on Thursday night.

"When it was 4-1 I was thinking, 'What's going on? There's no intensity, no passion, none whatsoever," Selanne said. "But it takes 20 guys getting frustrated to get their work boots on and start working. We started battling and the momentum totally changed for us."

Chris Pronger also scored twice and Dustin Penner added a goal for the Ducks, who beat Phoenix for the fifth time in six games this season and snapped a three-game skid overall.

"Hopefully this is a turning point for us," Selanne said. "I almost forgot how good it feels to win a game."

Anaheim's comeback, starting with Pronger's goal at 19:55 of the second period, was the latest three-goal rally in franchise history.

"We need to get on a little bit of a roll, get some wins under our belt and get some confidence back," Pronger said. "Certainly after getting three goals on the power play tonight and coming from behind, we were able to do it."

Mathias Tjarnqvist, Keith Ballard, Owen Nolan and Oleg Saprykin scored for Phoenix, which has lost three straight.

"I don't think we sat back at all in the third," said defenseman Travis Roche, whose interference penalty led to the Ducks' power play and Selanne's goal. "Certainly we didn't intend to. They came out hard and threw their 'A' game at us in the third and we didn't respond."

The Coyotes were without defenseman Ed Jovanovski, who was a late scratch with an elbow injury.

Selanne beat Curtis Joseph with a shot from the left edge of the crease into the top right side of the net for his 526th career goal.

Pronger started the Ducks' rally from a 4-1 deficit with a power-play goal with 4.4 seconds left in the second period, beating Joseph on a blast from top of the left faceoff circle.

"Anytime you can score in the waning seconds of a period it seems to light a fire under your group," Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said. "It wasn't pretty for a while but we aren't going to critique a win."

Penner made it 4-3 at 5:11 of the third off a rebound before Pronger tied the game on a disputed goal from the top of the left circle.

Television replays showed Corey Perry had used a hand pass to move the puck from the crease to Ryan Getzlaf on the wing before the pass to Pronger, but the play was not reviewable.

"It was pretty obvious," the Coyotes' Shane Doan said. "But they refs are trying. They're doing their best. It was a mad scramble in front and it's unfortunate that it ended up going straight into our net immediately after that sequence."

It was a trying night for the officials overall. Three of Phoenix's four goals and a near miss by Anaheim had been reviewed earlier in the game.

Ballard had given Phoenix a 2-1 lead with 41.8 seconds left in the period when he took a backhand pass from Doan and guided the puck into the net as he was tripped from behind by Anaheim's Francois Beauchemin.

Tjarnqvist, acquired from Dallas on Monday along with a first-round pick for Ladislav Nagy, extended the lead to 3-1 at 2:48 of the second period when he beat Jean-Sebastien Giguere on rebound in the crease. Saprykin made it 4-1 at 6:58 while laying prone in the crease, redirecting Roche's shot from the right goal line past Giguere.

"At 4-1 we got back on our heels and took the penalty that made it 4-2 and gave them momentum," said Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky said. "They're a good hockey club but they just kept coming at us."

Notes: Selanne, who also had an assist, moved past New York Islanders great Bryan Trottier into sole possession of 27th place on the career goals list. ... Selanne, traded away by the Winnipeg Jets just before the club's move to Phoenix, has 30 goals and 33 assists in 44 career games against the Coyotes. ... Tjarnqvist's goal was his first since January 4. ... The Coyotes' offensive ranks have been thinned so severely after the Nagy trade that Ballard, a defenseman, was positioned in front of the crease as a power forward on the Phoenix power play. ... Gretzky said Jovanovski also would miss Saturday's game against Detroit. "He's got an injury that's been bothering him and hasn't been getting any better and we need to get it better," Gretzky said.


Three star selections
1st:   CHRIS PRONGER
2nd:   CURTIS JOSEPH
3rd:   KEITH BALLARD
Winning Goaltender
Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Losing Goaltender
Curtis Joseph

SCHEDULE

HOME
AWAY
PROMOTIONAL

STANDINGS

WESTERN CONFERENCE
  TEAM GP W L OT GF GA PTS
1 p - CHI 48 36 7 5 155 102 77
2 y - ANA 48 30 12 6 140 118 66
3 y - VAN 48 26 15 7 127 121 59
4 x - STL 48 29 17 2 129 115 60
5 x - LAK 48 27 16 5 133 118 59
6 x - SJS 48 25 16 7 124 116 57
7 x - DET 48 24 16 8 124 115 56
8 x - MIN 48 26 19 3 122 127 55
9 CBJ 48 24 17 7 120 119 55
10 PHX 48 21 18 9 125 131 51
11 DAL 48 22 22 4 130 142 48
12 EDM 48 19 22 7 125 134 45
13 CGY 48 19 25 4 128 160 42
14 NSH 48 16 23 9 111 139 41
15 COL 48 16 25 7 116 152 39

STATS

2012-2013 PLAYOFFS
SKATERS: GP G A +/- Pts
R. Getzlaf 7 3 3 2 6
F. Beauchemin 7 2 4 -2 6
K. Palmieri 7 3 2 5 5
E. Etem 7 3 2 4 5
N. Bonino 7 3 1 2 4
B. Ryan 7 2 2 1 4
M. Beleskey 7 2 1 1 3
T. Selanne 7 1 2 1 3
S. Koivu 7 1 2 -4 3
C. Fowler 7 0 3 3 3
 
GOALIES: W L OT Sv% GAA
J. Hiller 3 4 3 .917 2.46
 

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