Corey Perry was the overtime hero.
Knocking the loose puck past Calgary Flames goaltender Karri Ramo just a couple of minutes into the extra frame during a goal-mouth scramble, Perry helped the Anaheim Ducks claim a 3-2 victory in Game 5 to knock out the overmatched-but-not-about-to-admit-it Flames.
But the Ducks don’t rely on their dynamic duo as much as they used to.
Perry and his setup man Ryan Getzlaf didn’t factor into the scoring before that series-clinching moment. They were held without a point in the previous victory in Calgary, too.
There was a time when that mattered. As recently as last spring, when Perry was held to a single goal over the final three games and Getzlaf restricted to a lone assist in the final two contests of a seven-game elimination at the hands of the Los Angeles Kings, the Ducks lived and died by the performance of their top two players.
If there’s a first star for this series, however, it's probably Matt Beleskey.
The second-line winger, along with Ryan Kesler and Jakob Silfverberg, has made the Ducks as mighty as their next opponent, the ...
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