Six Ducks score in win against Bruins

BOSTON --Corey Perry, David Perron, Ryan Kesler and Shea Theodore each had a goal and an assist, and goaltender Frederik Andersen made 32 saves to help the Anaheim Ducks defeat the Boston Bruins 6-2 at TD Garden on Tuesday.
Anaheim (22-18-7) has won three in a row and five of its past six. The Ducks went 10-3-1 between the NHL's Christmas break and All-Star break to get back into contention for a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs; they started the season 1-7-2.

"It's been good," said Perry, who has six goals and two assists in the past eight games. "I mean things have turned around. We dug ourselves a whole early in the season, and it's not easy to get out of. We've been pushing for a while, and good things are starting to happen now, and we've just got to continue that."
Mike Santorelli and Kevin Bieksa each scored a goal for Anaheim.
Bruins goaltender Jonas Gustavsson made 14 saves on 16 shots in the first period but left the game because of illness. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for observation, the Bruins said. There was no further update on Gustavsson after the game, and the Bruins did not expect one before Wednesday.

Defensemen Zach Trotman and Zdeno Chara scored for the Bruins (26-18-5), and forward Matt Beleskey had two assists in his first game against his former team. Beleskey left the Ducks to sign with the Bruins as an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
Boston lost for the first time in three games.
"We were in a 4-2 hockey game in the third where I thought we got better," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "We're still a young hockey club, and there are a lot of guys that realized tonight that when you play against a heavy team, you got to be ready to play. We did in spurts, but there were other times that we weren't there, and probably after that third goal, we kind of let our guard down a little bit, which hurt us in the second.
"So again, we chock those up to trying to get better as a team, and when you're playing those kind of teams, we have to have good execution, good pace and speed to our game, and when we did, we were able to certainly take some of the game to them."
Trotman opened the scoring 40 seconds into the game. Beleskey finished his check and caused Ducks forward Rickard Rakell to lose the puck to David Krejci, who fed it out to Trotman at the right point for a slap shot that beat Andersen high to the glove side.
It was Trotman's first goal of the season and his first in 31 games dating to April 2.
Just as they did in their past two wins, the Ducks bounced back after allowing the first goal.
"That comes from belief that you can come back," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "You don't hang your head and shoulders slump or anything like that. You believe, 'OK, there's a lot of game left. Let's respond.' At the beginning of the year, we were, 'Oh no, they scored a goal, there's no chance we're going to come back.' So it's a big difference in the mindset right now."
Perry tied it 1-1 after Perron took advantage of a bad pass from Gustavsson to Trotman below the Boston goal line. Perron intercepted the pass and set up Perry for a goal from the right hash marks at 7:54.
The Ducks had a 2-1 lead after the first period because defenseman Shea Theodore beat Gustavsson with a wrist shot from the high slot at 14:27 during a power play.

Tuukka Rask (19 saves) relieved Gustavsson to start the second period, when the Ducks scored two more goals to take a 4-1 lead into the third. Perron banged in a rebound of a Chris Stewart shot at 11:06, then Bieksa beat Rask with a slap shot off the rush from the top of the right circle at 17:13 after a give-and-go with Jakob Silfverberg.
Andersen made saves on all 12 shots he faced in the second, including a point-blank stop on David Pastrnak at 7:14 when the Ducks led by one goal.
Andersen stopped Pastrnak again on a breakaway 57 seconds into the third period, but he couldn't stop Chara's wrist shot from the high slot at 2:04. Ryan Spooner set up Chara for the goal to cut the Ducks lead to 4-2.
Kesler scored into an empty net with 54.4 seconds left, and Mike Santorelli scored against Rask with 31.3 seconds remaining.