For Anaheim, it's a chance to immediately right the ship after frustrating setbacks against the Rangers and Islanders to begin the trek.
"In the second period, we gave them two gifts," head coach Dallas Eakins said of Monday night's loss. "We gave them three easy ones [total] and we lose by two. That's what's disappointing because there was improvement in our game in a number of areas but it all gets blown apart by missed responsibilities.
"Those hurt but you learn from it and I am going to try to take some of the good, where we did have some improvement from things we were working on in practice and try to get ready for [tonight]."
"That's a good hockey team and we paid the price for some big mistakes," Troy Terry added. "We battled back and tied the game and I truly think we gave them all three of those [second-period] goals...We need to hunker down, myself included, to get rid of these little mistakes against teams who have these top players."
A point of emphasis for Anaheim tonight will be getting its usually reliable penalty-killing units back on track. Last season, the Ducks finished tenth in the league on the P.K., but have surrended three power-play goals in two of three games to start the new campaign.
"Up front, we're running [Derek Grant] as hard as we can and he's excellent at it," Eakins said. "Our other guys just aren't quite there yet. He's taking on the brunt of the minutes...It's an area we're looking for mass improvement and that's our jobs to keep at it."
Terry tallied two assists in the loss and now has six points through three games, the most to begin a season in Ducks history.
