
Detroit @ Anaheim 3-4 SO - A sellout crowd featured a typically-large turnout of Red Wings fans, and Teemu Selanne's presence seemingly helped turn the game for the Ducks. Corey Perry and Jakob Silfverberg scored and goalie John Gibson saved two of three attempts in the shootout to give the Anaheim a 4-3 win against Detroit to complete a comeback from 2-0 down in the third period.
Anaheim scored three goals in a 3:40 span of the third, a sequence that began right after Selanne, the Ducks' all-time leading scorer, was shown in attendance on the video board. Perry scored five-hole on Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard and Silfverberg scored his NHL-leading ninth shootout goal this season with a snap shot. Gibson denied Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Tatar, who missed the net, to end the game. It was Gibson's first career shootout win for the Ducks, who are 26-0-7 in one-goal games. Riley Sheahan tied it 3-3 for the Red Wings when he converted a rush with Gustav Nyquist at 16:09 of the third. It swung the momentum after Anaheim erased a two-goal deficit with fewer than 11 minutes remaining on goals by Cogliano, Emerson Etem and Beauchemin. Beauchemin shot a loose puck from the right side through traffic at 12:57 to give Anaheim a 3-2 lead. Cogliano whacked in Hampus Lindholm's rebound from the slot at 9:17, and Etem tapped the puck five-hole on Howard at 11:27. Detroit was on its way to a big win in its first game without injured leading scorer Henrik Zetterberg.

Datsyuk scored his 20th and 21st goals in a 1:56 span of the second and Howard looked solid until Anaheim put Detroit under duress in the third after it chased most of the game shorthanded. Datsyuk executed a delayed backhand past Gibson on a power play at 6:50 of the second. Datsyuk freely skated alone to the front of the net and took a pass from Justin Abdelkader seconds into Patrick Maroon's holding penalty. Datsyuk's first goal was just as impressive. He grabbed Clayton Stoner's clearing attempt and beat Gibson high with a snap shot inside the right post at 3:54. The goal clinched Datsyuk's eighth 20-goal season, and his two goals tied him with Slava Kozlov for fifth on the all-time Russian points list at 853.

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