Preview: Ducks Host Rival Sharks for Friday Night Tilt at Honda Center

The Ducks cap a short two-game homestand and welcome a familiar foe back to Anaheim tonight, hosting the San Jose Sharks at Honda Center.
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Anaheim will look for back-to-back wins on home ice after a
4-3 overtime triumph against Carolina on Tuesday
. The Ducks led by a goal on three separate occasions in regulation, but would head to overtime for the ninth time this season due to a resilient Hurricanes effort, grabbing the extra standings point on Ryan Strome's second overtime winner of the season.

"I thought we did a good job responding when we needed to respond," Adam Henrique said. "The game is going to go back and forth sometimes. The other team is going to do a good job. They're going to have momentum at times or have pressure. Even a few times, on the goals, we could maybe have done something different in the [defensive] zone but I thought we did a good job
responding."

Despite a 7-17-3 record on the season, the Ducks own a 5-6-0 mark at Honda Center, including wins in three of their last five on home ice.
"You want to be rewarded for good play and you want to be rewarded when you're doing things right," head coach Dallas Eakins said. "We've had a couple of games where we've done a lot of things right and, for whatever reason, it's a bad bounce, something goes south late and you're not rewarded at all…It's big for our guys. Our guys come in here every day with an incredible attitude, with a real win today mindset. For me to see that everyday and then to see them get rewarded like that, it's big."
The Ducks now turn their attention to a Sharks team they already know quite well after earning a couple of shootout wins over their California rival four days apart in early November.

Anthony Stolarz was in net for both of those victories, improving his career mark to 7-1-0 against San Jose. Three of Stolarz's four career 40-save games have come in wins over the Sharks.
Tonight's game could include both a Ducks debut and a rare battle of NHL brothers, with newest Duck Jayson Megna potentially facing off against his brother, Sharks defenseman Jaycob Megna. Jayson, the 32-year-old elder brother to former Ducks draft pick Jaycob, was claimed on waivers from Colorado on Tuesday. He appeared in 14 games for the Avalanche this season and owns 10-15=25 points in 162 career NHL appearances.

Jaycob, a 2012 Ducks seventh-round selection, played his first 43 NHL games in an Anaheim sweater. He's skated in 27 of San Jose's 29 games this season, ranking third among team blueliners in scoring (0-8=8) and assists, and fourth in average ice-time (18:21).
Much like the Ducks, the Sharks (8-16-5, 21 points) have struggled out of the gate this season and particularly so on home ice, falling to 2-8-5 at SAP Center with a OT loss to Vancouver Wednesday.
"I liked a lot about our game,"
San Jose coach David Quinn told NHL.com's Chelena Goldman postgame
. "I know we lost, but I liked our resiliency. I like that we got better and better as the game went on. We were down 3-1 and we battled back."
The loss pushed San Jose's losing streak to four, as the club now has just two wins in its last 10 games.
"It's tough," winger Jonah Gadjovich said. "Obviously at the end of the day, those extra points mean a lot. At the end of the year, they add up. We fought back and that [means] a lot, that shows our character. But we've got to find a way to come up with that extra point."