Adam Jona

What started glorious for Gibson went quickls downhill after 20 minutes of play. The Ducks went into the third having scored three and shutting out the Pens, thanks to the heroic efforts of Gibson, but the wheels completely fel of early in the second and Pittsburgh methodically did the Ducks in from that point on. Gibson stopped 29 shots on 35 attempts.

Silfverberg took an Adam Henrique strip of the puck off of one Evgeni Malkin and calmly used his trademark shot to make it 4-3 Ducks late in the third period.

Rakell created the third Anaheim goal in the first period yb centering a pass from right wing on a counter rush.

Sprong snapped home the third Ducks goal in a row in the first stanza to help his team close out the period three zip.

Cogliano backhanded a Pittsburgh fumble to Ryan Getzlaf for the second Anaheim goal within the first 8 minutes of the game.

Getzlaf went dormant for 9 games prior, the longest pointless streak of his career, to come back with a first period goal and assist against Pittsburgh.

Henrique dug out a puck behind the Pittsburgh net that lead to the first Ducks goal early on, then added another helper after a strip of Evgeni Malkin mid-ice playing a man down.

Kase made a far side shot attempt that got tapped in by Nick Ritchie at the back door not even 90 seconds into the game.

Ritchie tapped in a backdoor shotpass early in the first period to open scoring.

Subban played a heck of a game despite the early 0-2 hole his team found itself in as he shut it down past the 9:37 mark of the first period, making 36 saves on 38 shots.