Recap: Ducks Rally for Comeback Win over Canucks, Inch Closer to Playoff Picture

The Ducks dug out from a 2-0 hole to earn a thrilling comeback victory on home ice, tonight downing the division rival Vancouver Canucks 5-2 at Honda Center.

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With the win, Anaheim's seventh in its last 10 games (7-2-1), the Ducks improved to 26-25-7 on the season and moved within six points of the Canucks for the second and final Western Conference Wild Card position.

Ryan Strome and Troy Terry led Anaheim offensively with three-point nights, helping erase a two-goal deficit in a span of 13 minutes and secure Anaheim's sixth multi-goal comeback of the season. Frank Vatrano, Cutter Gauthier and Jackson LaCombe also scored, as the Ducks remained undefeated in regulation this season when scoring at least three goals. Mason McTavish tallied two assists, while Lukas Dostal earned his 17th win of the season with stops on 22-of-24 Vancouver shots.

Pius Suter and Tyler Myers scored for the Canucks, who fell to 27-21-11 in the fourth leg of a five-game road trip. Goaltender Arturs Silovs took the loss in net with 20 saves.

Vancouver claimed a 2-0 lead in the first period on a pair of goals both set up by the typically defensively-focused Myers.

The opening tally came seconds after the Canucks killed an early Ducks power play, as Myers skated down right wing and blasted a slapshot past Dostal to the glove side. Suter scored the second with less than four minutes to go before intermission, finishing a centering pass from Myers who had circled the Anaheim net below the goal line.

Myers, who briefly left Vancouver's game last night in LA after taking a shot to the neck, owns eight points in his last 12 outings and 20 points in 56 total appearances this season. One of the tallest players in the league at 6-foot-8, Myers is three goals shy of 100 for his NHL career.

The script would flip in the second period though, as Anaheim tied the game in a matter of four minutes on two perfectly placed shots.

Vatrano first put the Ducks on the board on a dart of a one-timer from the left faceoff circle, converting a setup feed from Strome before Silovs could adjust to the sudden scoring chance.

Vatrano has found the scoresheet in three of his last four games and leads Ducks skaters with 18 goals in 57 games this season. The secondary helper pushed Terry's point streak to four games.

Gauthier would score off the rush a few shifts later, beating the Canucks defense wide on a pass from Lundestrom before lifting a snapshot over Silovs' glove, again from the left faceoff circle.

The goal was Gauthier's 12th of his initial NHL campaign, and his fourth in the last six games. Gauthier now ranks third among all league rookies in goals this season and tied for sixth in points.

Strome then gave Anaheim its first lead of the night with another well-placed shot off the rush, this one a bullet under the blocker after a deft short pass by McTavish created plenty of space for Strome in the high slot.

Strome has scored in two of the last three games and now owns 33 points in 58 games on the season.

That 3-2 lead held until deep into the third period, when LaCombe delivered the dagger while the sides skated four-on-four. After a Canucks turnover in the offensive zone, and while captain Radko Gudas finished his check on Vancouver's Conor Garland, the Ducks raced ahead on an odd-man rush. The puck eventually found LaCombe on the right wing with enough space to curl to the high slot, where the young defenseman buried his wrister past Silovs to all but seal a crucial comeback win.

Terry hit the empty net with just over two minutes to play in regulation.

The Ducks conclude a two-game homestand Saturday night against Chicago.