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Trevor Zegras scored his third goal of the season and John Gibson made 36 saves, but the Detroit Red Wings skated to a 5-1 victory over the Ducks today at Little Caesars Arena.
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The loss capped Anaheim's five-game road trip at 0-4-1 and moved the club to 1-4-1 on the season. The Ducks return home to face the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday at Honda Center.
Zegras scored the lone goal for Anaheim in the first period, his third in six games this season. Troy Terry and Adam Henrique added assists.
John Gibson made 35 saves in his fifth start of the season. The Ducks netminder leads the league in saves (165).
Dylan Larkin, David Perron, Joe Veleno, Dominik Kubalik and Elmer Soderblom scored for the Red Wings, who extended their season-opening point streak to five games (3-0-2). Former Blues netminder Ville Husso stopped 31-of-32 Anaheim shots for his second win as a Red Wing.
The teams traded early goals on second chance opportunities in tight, but the Red Wings would take a 2-1 lead to the first intermission with a couple of power-play markers.
Larkin opened the scoring just two minutes in, winning a race to a rebound in the low slot for his third goal of the season.
The Detroit captain has points in four of five games this season (3-4=7).
Anaheim responded on a hard-working effort by the Zegras, Terry and Henrique line. Terry got to a loose puck in the slot, swiping it back towards the net as he fell to the ice with both Zegras and Henrique crashing the net searching for the rebound. Zegras got to it first, chipping it over a sliding Husso's leg pad to level the score.

ANA@DET: Zegras evens the score with a goal in tight

Zegras co-leads the Ducks in goals (three). With the primary assist, Terry now has a team-high seven points on the season.
Detroit would reclaim the lead with another power-play goal though, going back ahead when the former Duck Perron beat Gibson with a one-timer from the left faceoff circle.
For Anaheim, it was a continuation of the penalty killing struggles that have plagued the team early in the season. The Ducks entered play Sunday having killed eight straight opponent power plays, but the two first-period tallies and a later third-period insurance goal against marked the third time in six games the club has allowed three power-play goals.
Perron, who signed a two-year deal with Detroit in the offseason, has four goals in his last four games (4-1=5).
Kubalik, a fellow offseason signee, assisted on both first period goals for the home side, and now has eight points (3-5=8) in his first five games as a Red Wing. Kubalik leads the team in points and assists.
The Wings would get another power play less than a minute later, with Max Comtois getting the extra minor penalty in a tangle with Oskar Sundqvist, but Gibson bounced back with a couple of big saves to kill it off.

ANA@DET: Gibson robs Kubalik with great glove save

Anaheim had a golden opportunity to again tie the game late in the period, with nearly two minutes of five-on-three power play time, but the Ducks could not get set up in the offensive zone to generate any good looks.
After scoring twice on the power-play in the season-opening win over Seattle, the Ducks went 0-for-17 with the man advantage on the road trip.
That missed chance gone by would prove costly early in the middle frame. With the pacing of play picking up and teams trading scoring chances, Detroit would cash in on an odd-man rush, as Adam Erne fed Veleno in front, where he reached his stick through Jamie Drysdale's skates to tap the puck past Gibson.
Detroit nearly added to the advantage midway through the period when a blocked shot on an Anaheim power play turned into a breakaway for Pius Suter, but Gibson denied him with a glove save to keep the Ducks within two.

The Red Wings would add an insurance goal early in the third, once again converting on the power play. This time it was Kubalik finishing it off, beating Gibson off a cross-crease pass by Sundqvist.
The Ducks had a couple of good looks in the third, including a bid by Mason McTavish with about nine minutes left, but could not sustain consistent pressure necessary to overcome a three-goal deficit.
Soderblom capped the scoring, poking home a rebound off a rush chance with Michael Rasmussen to seal a 5-1 Detroit victory.
The Ducks host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday at Honda Center.