Pontus Aberg scored twice, including a dazzling goal-of-the-year candidate that tied the score, but the Ducks fell to the San Jose Sharks in overtime 4-3 on Timo Meier’s second goal of the night.
Still, this was an improvement: shades of hope for a team that was listless through most of two periods. The Ducks managed to push the game to the extra period and scraped out their first point since a victory over the New York Islanders almost two weeks ago.
After the fourth-liner lost the puck in the defensive zone, Brent Burns’ point blast caromed off the boards behind goalie John Gibson, around the net, and onto the stick of Logan Couture.