Ducks play a solid 60 minutes and defeat Panthers, 3-1

Andrew Cogliano’s short-handed goal gave the Ducks a late cushion in a 3-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.

Cam Fowler scored the first goal for the Ducks, Jakob Silfverberg added his first goal of the season into an empty net and Frederik Andersen stopped 23 shots.

“We’re trending in the right direction,” Fowler said. “We came here, played a solid 60 minutes and got a good win against a good team.”

Aleksander Barkov scored for the Panthers and Roberto Luongo stopped 38 shots.

Cogliano’s short-handed goal gave the Ducks a 2-0 lead. Nick Bjugstad lost the puck near the blue line and Shawn Horcoff skated toward the net and passed to Cogliano in the right circle. His shot beat Luongo with 5:19 left in the third.

Barkov made it 2-1 less than two minutes later, when his shot from the point hit Andersen’s pads and trickled into the net. Jaromir Jagr had an assist on the goal.

Silfverberg added his empty-netter with 1:08 left.

The Ducks took a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal by Fowler with 3:21 left in the second. Fowler shot from the left of the crease and the puck went under Luongo’s pads. The goal was the first given up by Luongo in 74 shots going back to a 5-4 shootout win at Tampa Bay on Saturday and including a 39-shot shutout of the Lightning last Monday night.

Luongo took a puck to the right side of his face 22 seconds into the second period. A shot by Clayton Stoner hit off Luongo’s mask and he fell to the ice but continued play after several minutes.

The Ducks missed a short-handed scoring chance at 8:12 of the second when Silfverberg shot from the point, but Luongo robbed him with a glove save.

“We put in a full 60 and won the game,” Silfverberg said. “That’s obviously huge.”