Ducks defeat Stars, retake third place in Pacific Division

ANAHEIM -- The Anaheim Ducks moved into third place in the Pacific Division with a 5-3 win against the Dallas Stars at Honda Center on Friday.
The Ducks (43-25-13) are one point ahead of the Los Angeles Kings and within one point of the second-place San Jose Sharks with one game remaining for each on Saturday. The Kings dropped into the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.

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Jakob Silfverberg had a goal and two assists, Josh Manson and Andrew Cogliano each had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Getzlaf had two assists for Anaheim, which has won four in a row and is 9-1-1 in its past 11 games.
Ryan Miller made 23 saves in his second straight start for the injured John Gibson and is 7-0-2 at home this season. Miller played 736th NHL game to move past Dominik Hasek and into a tie with Marc-Andre Fleury for 22nd place on the all-time list.
Jamie Benn had a goal and an assist, and Marc Methot scored his first goal in 108 games for the Stars (41-32-8). Mike McKenna made his first NHL start since Feb. 16, 2015 and gave up a goal on the first shot he faced before finishing with 28 saves.
"It would have been nice to get [McKenna] a better result," Methot said.

Anaheim built a 3-1 lead in the first period on goals by Silfverberg, Rickard Rakell and Derek Grant.
Silfverberg finished off a 3-on-2 to give the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 2:28.
"It's been a little bit up-and-down," Silfverberg said of his season. "There is no better time of the year to get the confidence going."
McKenna made a left pad save on a breakaway by Corey Perry for his first save at 2:57, but the Ducks went on the power play and Rakell tied his NHL career high from last season with his 33rd goal at 6:33 for a 2-0 lead.
"We had a really good start," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "We had lots of energy. We were really skating and had our feet underneath us. They're still an opponent that scares you because they have a transition game and a lot of skill on that side that can make you pay."
Methot scored for the first time since March 19, 2016 to make it 2-1 at 11:13. The Ducks increased the lead to 3-1 when Grant deflected a shot by Silfverberg with 20 seconds left.
Manson scored on a rebound off Getzlaf's shot to make it 4-1 at 4:36 of the second period.
"We turned the puck over at the top of both zones too many times, and we made mistakes in what we call critical ice," Dallas coach Ken Hitchcock said. "They took advantage of it."
Radek Faksa cut the lead to 4-2 off a deflection at 7:49, and Benn beat Miller over his left shoulder from the slot at 2:52 of the third to make it 4-3. It was Benn's 33rd goal of the season.
Cogliano scored with 5:25 left to make it 5-3, his fifth point in the past three games (three goals, two assists).
"They looked like a team that was getting ready for the playoffs," Hitchcock said. "That's what they looked like, and we looked like a team that still was trying, but they had details in their game that we didn't have."

Goal of the game

Manson's goal at 4:36 of the second period.

Save of the game

Miller's save on Mattias Janmark at 3:19 of the second period.

Highlight of the game

Silfverberg's goal at 2:28 of the first period.

They said it

"We had a lot of scoring chances ourselves, even ones that didn't hit the net, but we made mistakes in the wrong area, either in our zone or the offensive zone, and it came back to haunt us." -- Dallas coach Ken Hitchcock
"The whole team is building that confidence. We're playing the right way. That's the biggest key. We're not cheating. We're ready. We just need to make sure we have a strong finish tomorrow and see who we get [in the first round]."-- Ducks forward Jakob Silfverberg

Need to know

Benn has seven points (five goals, two assists) in a four-game point streak. … Stars defenseman John Klingberg got his 58th assist of the season, tying the Dallas mark for assists by a defenseman set by Sergei Zubov in 2005-06. … Getzlaf passed Teemu Selanne and set a Stars record with his ninth 60-point season. … Silfverberg has six points (goal, five assists) in a three-game point streak. … Manson has back-to-back multipoint games for the first time in his NHL career, and is plus-8 in the past three games. … Cogliano has nine points (five goals, four assists) in his past 10 games. … The Ducks are 18-2-2 at home since Dec. 29.

What's next

Stars: At the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday (10:30 p.m. ET; NHLN, FS-W, FS-SW+, NHL.TV)
Ducks:At the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday (9 p.m. ET; FS-A PLUS, PRIME, NHL.TV)