"We turned the puck over at the top of both zones too many times," said Stars coach Ken Hitchcock. "And we made mistakes in what we call critical ice, and they took advantage of it. We had a lot of scoring chances ourselves even the ones that didn't hit the net, but we made mistakes in the wrong areas, either in our zone or the offensive zone and it came back to haunt us."
Jakob Silfverberg tallied one goal and two assists, and Josh Manson and Andrew Cogliano both had one goal and one assist for the Ducks, who improved to 43-25-13 and moved into third place in the Pacific Division -- one point behind second-place San Jose.
"We had lots of energy, we were really skating and had our feet underneath us," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "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 the price. They didn't quit. They continued to come back and found a way to make the game very interesting."
The Ducks took a 1-0 lead 2:28 into the game, taking advantage of a Dallas turnover at the Anaheim blue line. The end result was Silfverberg redirecting a Manson pass into the net with Anaheim on a 3-on-2 rush.
The Ducks made it a 2-0 game a little more than four minutes later by cashing in on their first power play of the game. Rickard Rakell took a pass from Ryan Getzlaf, skated in on net and then scored on the rebound of his own shot at the 6:33 mark.
Methot cut the lead to 2-1 at 11:13 of the first, taking a pass from Alexander Radulov and scoring from the slot for his first goal of the season and his first as a Star.
