Terry completes hat trick in OT, Ducks top Coyotes for 5th straight victory

ANAHEIM -- Troy Terry completed a hat trick at 3:27 of overtime to lift the Anaheim Ducks to their fifth straight win, 4-3 against the Arizona Coyotes at Honda Center on Wednesday.

Mason McTavish skated around Coyotes defenseman Nick Schmaltz in the neutral zone and fed Terry on a 2-on-1. His shot beat Karel Vejmelka from the right face-off circle.

"I was kind of assuming he was going to bring it back to our end," Terry said of McTavish's move to create the 2-on-1. "I tried to just hang there and he made an incredible move, kind of baiting that he was going to bring it back, and just took a couple hard strides the other way."

Leo Carlsson also scored and Lukas Dostal made 32 saves for Anaheim (6-4-0), which is on its longest winning streak since winning eight straight from Oct. 31-Nov. 16, 2021.

Logan Cooley scored his first NHL goal, and Lawson Crouse had two goals for Arizona (4-4-1). Vejmelka made 25 saves.

Cooley, a 19-year-old forward, was the No. 3 pick at the 2022 NHL Draft.

"In the moment, it was the best feeling ever," he said. "It felt like I was on cloud nine there for a little bit, but I would've taken the win over that any day of the week."

The Ducks scored power-play goals on two of their first three shots to take an early 2-0 lead.

Terry intercepted a clearing pass up the wall, skated into the right circle and scored with a wrist shot for a 1-0 lead at 3:46 of the first period.

He made it 2-0 at 9:35 on a rebound, one second after a 4-on-4 ended.

"I think the worst thing is we get up 2-0 and we're thinking, 'OK, this might be easy,'" Anaheim coach Greg Cronin said.

Crouse cut it to 2-1 at 11:41 on a one-timer after a feed from J.J. Moser (two assists), and Cooley tied it 2-2 at 14:51 when he took a pass from Moser as he entered the Ducks zone with speed and scored on a breakaway.

"With the way they play, if you're not sharp and you're not skating, they're going to get quality chances and they scored on two of them in the first period," Cronin said. "We're lucky there wasn't more."

Crouse scored again at 14:25 of the second period when he won a battle for position in front of the crease and made it 3-2 on a backhand after Matias Maccelli sent the puck toward the net from above the left circle.

"We had a tough start. We battled back. We came back in the game, and we even had a lead," Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. "We could expect to win in that type of situation."

Dostal made a save on a short-handed breakaway by Alex Kerfoot 1:01 into the third period to keep it a one-goal game.

Carlsson then tied it 3-3 at 4:01 on a deflection of Terry’s wrist shot from the left circle. It was Carlsson's third goal in six games after he was selected with the No. 2 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

"I did not like the way we played when we were under attack," Tourigny said. "We need to be comfortable being uncomfortable, and we were not today."

Terry was stopped on a breakaway 31 seconds into overtime before later getting the game-winner.

"The maturity of this team is growing," Terry said. "You see it in a win like that. We didn't have our best game, but we were able to keep them to the outside and score on our opportunities."

NOTES: The Ducks have four wins this season after trailing in the third period, the most in the NHL. ... McTavish extended his point streak to an NHL career-high six games (four goals, five assists). .. Anaheim is the fifth NHL team to have at least four third-period comeback wins through the first 10 games of a season, joining the Columbus Blue Jackets (2021-22), Tampa Bay Lightning (2013-14), Detroit Red Wings (2008-09) and Toronto Maple Leafs (1934-35). ... Ducks center Ryan Strome was a late scratch because of an illness. ... Maccelli's assist extended his point streak to an NHL career-high six games (one goal, six assists). ... With seven points each, Cooley (one goal, six assists) and Mintyukov (one goal, six assists) are tied with Ridly Greig of the Ottawa Senators for the NHL lead in points among rookies.