Kase scores first NHL hat trick in Ducks win against Stars

ANAHEIM -- Ondrej Kase scored his first NHL hat trick for the Anaheim Ducks in a 6-3 win against the Dallas Stars at Honda Center on Wednesday.

Brandon Montour had a goal and three assists, Jakob Silfverberg scored for the fourth straight game, and Ryan Getzlaf had two assists to give him 901 NHL points for the Ducks (17-11-5), who have won seven of eight. John Gibson made 26 saves.
Miro Heiskanen, Blake Comeau and Alexander Radulov scored, and Devin Shore had two assists for Dallas (16-12-3), which was trying for its first season sweep of Anaheim since the 2000-01 season. Ben Bishop made 30 saves.
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Kase completed the hat trick when a rebound came out to the bottom of the left circle and he scored to the short side to tie the game 3-3 at 10:45 of the third period.
"He's the type of player who seems to hound the puck effectively and now he's getting rewarded for the hard work that he's putting in," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said.
Kase's third goal was the first of four goals in the third period for the Ducks.
Getzlaf tapped a pass to Montour in the right circle, and he scored on a one-timer at 12:06 for a 4-3 lead.
Silfverberg made it 5-3 at 13:44, driving to the net as the puck went off his skate. The goal was initially disallowed but a video review showed there was no kicking motion.
Hampus Lindholm scored into an empty net with 31 seconds left for the 6-3 final.
"It was a tale of three periods," Bishop said. "They obviously took it to us in the first. We took it to them in the second. Then they took it back to us in the third."

Kase scored off a turnover in the Dallas zone for a 1-0 lead at 6:38 of the first period.
Dallas rookie defenseman Gavin Bayreuther tried to make a pass to forward Martin Hanzal as he brought the puck out from behind his own net, but it went behind Hanzal and Ducks forward Pontus Aberg took possession in the right face-off circle. Aberg made a quick centering pass to Kase, who stopped the puck and shot it in one motion.
Heiskanen tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal at 6:01 of the second period.
The Stars kept the puck in the Anaheim zone for a long stretch before a rebound came out in the high slot and Heiskanen banked his one-timer off the inside of the right post.
The Stars went ahead 2-1 at 8:07.
Ducks defenseman Jake Dotchin came off the bench and tried to pinch the puck along the boards in the Dallas zone, but the puck got past him, leading to a 3-on-2 by the Stars. Shore fed Comeau as he neared the crease and he redirected the puck into the net.
Radulov scored the fourth power-play goal in the past two games for Dallas to make it 3-1 at 11:20.

Kase began the comeback with his second goal to make it 3-2 at 16:30. Getzlaf won a puck battle in the corner, passed to Kase in the right circle and he scored on a one-timer for the third multigoal game of his NHL career.
The assist gave Getzlaf 900 points in the NHL. He joins Teemu Selanne (988) as the only players in Ducks history to reach that milestone.

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They said it

"In the second they had trouble handling our intensity, and in the third I thought the first couple minutes they came at us, and then we weathered the storm for about five or six minutes. We had some chances, and then they got that goal and it seemed like we were on our heels the rest of the way." -- Stars coach Jim Montgomery
"Once we were able to establish a forecheck in the hockey game we were effective. We did it in the first period and we did it in the third period. We didn't do it in the second. When we're tenacious and on the puck we're a hard team to control." -- Ducks coach Randy Carlyle

Need to know

Dallas forward Tyler Seguin played his 18th game without scoring a goal against Anaheim, the only NHL team he hasn't scored against. … Dallas has lost six straight at Honda Center since a 4-0 win on April 8, 2015. … The Stars had nine of their 16 giveaways in the first period after coming in averaging 10.7 a game. … Getzlaf, who has nine points (two goals, seven assists) in the past seven games, is the eighth active player in the NHL with 900 points and the 112th in NHL history. … Kase has six points (four goals, two assists) in the past two games.

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What's next

Stars: At the San Jose Sharks on Thursday (10:30 p.m. ET; SN1, SNE, NBCSCA, FS-SW, NHL.TV)
Ducks: At the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; FS-O, KCOP-13, NHL.TV)