Ducks fall to San Jose in fight-filled matchup

Leaders Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry were thrown out for fighting, and goalie Frederik Andersen gave up multiple goals, giving the Ducks more ejections than points Sunday in a rout by San Jose.

Driven by the urgency of their four-game losing skid, the San Jose Sharks beat the division-rival Ducks, 4-1, slamming the brakes on Anaheim’s seven-game winning streak in a fighting fest at Honda Center.

“Wasn’t a good game for us, tensions ran high, we dealt with them … don’t want to see games get out of hand like that, but we stuck together as a group,” Getzlaf said.

He’d decided late in the third period he’d heard enough chirping from San Jose forward James Sheppard, and he slammed a right hand to his jaw.

The game featured 37 combined penalties — with seven misconduct and 165 penalty minutes assigned.

The Ducks showed only six skaters on the bench in the game’s waning minutes.

“Frustration … it’s a useless emotion, but it’s easy to say those things,” Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau said. “The last thing we want is Getzlaf and Perry fighting … but they’re competitive men.”

San Jose’s desperate effort caught the Ducks off guard.

“That’s just not good enough,” Andersen said. “We’ve been getting two points the last seven games, but it was getting too easy. We just weren’t ready for it.”

Off a first-period faceoff, Sharks defenseman Brent Burns launched a shot aided by traffic in front of Andersen and found the net 8:25 into the game.

Sharks goalie Antti Niemi (33 saves) stopped Perry on an early breakaway, and defenseman Marc Edouard Vlasic knocked Perry to the boards.

The Ducks couldn’t convert on two power plays, and then San Jose needed just 61 seconds on its own advantage to take a 2-0 lead when Joe Pavelski deflected in a pass/shot from Joe Thornton late in the first.

“You’re going to have games you just don’t have it,” Getzlaf said. “[This] was one of those. Pucks got away from us, we weren’t moving our feet … nobody’s giving us a pass any night.”

That’ll be especially true on Tuesday in Chicago as the Ducks (7-2) open a four-game trip to meet four returning Western Conference playoff teams.

“We’ll see what we’re made of,” Boudreau said.

In the second period, both Getzlaf and Perry were lured into fights, and tempers on the Ducks’ side boiled over when an official called embellishment on Anaheim defenseman Sami Vatanen after San Jose’s Scott Hannan jarred a stick to Vatanen’s mouth.

San Jose (5-4-1) made it 3-0 just 23 seconds after the Vatanen call when Vlasic backhanded a shot under Andersen, who had won his first six starts.

“We were playing probably the best team in the league right now, and it was a great opportunity to get back on track,” Vlasic said. “Guys were excited to play.”

After Vlasic’s goal, the Ducks’ focus turned to getting some payback.

They would only land one shot in the net, Matt Beleskey’s fifth goal of the season with 5:07 left in the game, but they wanted to score some fighting blows.

Defenseman Ben Lovejoy unleashed a right uppercut to Pavelski’s face. Perry pulled Tommy Wingels’ jersey over his head.

“Things just got out of hand,” Beleskey said.

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