Corey Perry had a goal and two assists and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 47 shots as the Anaheim Ducks won their third straight with a 6-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
Ryan Getzlaf and Chris Kunitz each had a goal and an assist for Anaheim. Kent Huskins, Travis Moen and Teemu Selanne also scored for the Ducks, who have won four of five since an 0-4 start.
Alex Tanguay had two goals, and Saku Koivu and Tom Kostopoulos also scored for Montreal, which ended a five-game winning streak despite holding a 51-25 margin in shots.
The Canadiens, who hosted their 2,900th NHL regular-season home game, failed to record a point for the first time in seven games (5-1-1).
Huskins and Getzlaf scored 2:51 apart to give the Ducks a 2-0 lead early in the first period.
Montreal answered with three straight goals, beginning with Tanguay's fourth of the season on a power play midway through the first.
Koivu scored his fourth goal just as Todd Marchant's tripping penalty expired with 3:37 left in the first, and Kostopoulos put the Canadiens up 3-2 with his first goal of the season 1:34 into the second.
Anaheim came back with three straight goals before the end of the middle period.
Perry scored his first of the season on a power play at 2:40 to even it at 3, and Kunitz restored the Ducks' lead with his first at 4:40, chasing Jaroslav Halak, who allowed four goals on 12 shots.
Moen scored a short-handed goal with 3:21 left in the second period when he put a backhand past Carey Price on a breakaway.
Perry was awarded a penalty shot with 1:56 remaining in the second but lost control of the puck when he went to his backhand on Price.
Selanne increased the Ducks' lead to 6-3 on a power play 5:40 into the third.
Tanguay scored his second goal of the game with 6:15 left.
Montreal's Andrei Markov played his 500th regular season game, extending his assists and points streaks to seven games with an assist on Tanguay's first goal.
Notes:@ New Ducks D Bret Hedican, signed as a free agent on Thursday, did not dress. LW Brad May was also a healthy scratch. ... Canadiens LW Chris Higgins made his season debut after missing the first six games because of a groin injury. ... It was Halak's first career appearance against Anaheim. ... Koivu's points streak reached six games. He has four goals and six assists over that span.
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