- The Canucks beat the Ducks 6-5 in overtime to end their 10-game losing streak
- Filip Hronek scored the winner on a 5-on-3 with 11 seconds left in OT after Vancouver trailed 5-2
- Read below for how Jonathan Lekkerimaki and the Canucks erased the deficit
The Canucks finally won a game.
Vancouver ended its 10-game losing streak Tuesday night with a 6-5 overtime victory over the Ducks in Anaheim. Filip Hronek scored the winner on a 5-on-3 power play with 11 seconds left in the extra frame, completing a comeback from down 5-2 in the third period.
Watch Hronek’s game-winner:
The skid went 0-9-1, and the Canucks entered the night 2-10-1, last in the NHL, after losing 4-2 to the Wild on Sunday. They are now 3-10-1.
Anaheim controlled most of the night. The Ducks led 4-1 through two periods on goals from Jeff Malott, Beckett Sennecke and Leo Carlsson, plus a Vancouver puck that went into its own net off Hronek’s stick.
Brock Boeser got the Canucks going in the third when a rebound hit his chest and went in at 11:40 to make it 4-2. A.J. Greer answered 43 seconds later for a 5-2 lead, his second of the game.
Jamie Oleksiak cut it to 5-3 with a slap shot at 12:54. Then Jonathan Lekkerimaki took over.
Lekkerimaki scored twice in 49 seconds with goalie Leevi Merilainen pulled for an extra attacker, first at 17:14 and then at 18:03 on a shot through a screen from above the left circle. Check out the tying goal:
Boeser finished with a goal and two assists, and Elias Pettersson added two assists. Merilainen made 18 saves. Lekkerimaki now leads all Canucks skaters with six goals this season.
The Ducks have lost six of their last seven (1-5-1) and fell to 5-6-1. Lukas Dostal stopped 27 shots, and Jackson LaCombe had three assists in the loss.
Vancouver visits San Jose on Thursday, then hosts the Maple Leafs on Saturday.
