Ducks lose to Minnesota Wild in final seconds of overtime

Ryan Hartman scored with 12.1 seconds left in overtime and the Minnesota Wild extended their season-opening win streak to four games, rallying to beat Anaheim 4-3 on Saturday night.

Minnesota has won two straight overtime games and rallied from a deficit in all its wins.

Brandon Duhaime, Jared Spurgeon and Jon Merrill scored for Minnesota, which has won its first four games for the first time since 2008-09. The franchise best for season-opening wins is six in 2006-07.

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In overtime, Mats Zuccarello corralled a loose puck in the neutral zone and fed Hartman, who beat John Gibson from the left circle.

Minnesota has won its last nine games against Anaheim, and is 11-1-1 in the last 13 games between the teams. The Wild won 2-1 in Anaheim on Oct. 15.

In the last outing of a four-game trip in which it went 1-2-1, Anaheim got two goals from Rickard Rakell and another score from Troy Terry. Hampus Lindholm and Ryan Getzlaf each had two assists, and John Gibson made 32 saves.

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Rakell scored on a redirect early in the second, and Merrill tied the game 3-3 in the middle of the period with his first goal in 59 games, converting a feed from Marcus Foligno, who circled behind the net before a backhand feed to Merrill. Anaheim unsuccessfully challenged that the Wild were offsides.

Rakell scored on a rebound 78 seconds into the game, before Duhaime netted his first career goal midway through the opening period in an unusual way. Looking down to pick up his stick, a shot from Nico Sturm ricocheted off a defender’s stick, then Duhaime’s skate and into the net.

Spurgeon scored on a slap shot less than two minutes later, and Terry scored on a deflection a couple minutes after that, tying the game at 2-all. Terry has two goals and four assists in his last four games.