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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Bobby Ryan scored on a penalisation effort at 2:50 of punctuation and the metropolis Ducks snapped the city Red Wings' five-game agency winning streak with a wild 2-1 victory weekday night.

Ryan was hauled down on a breakaway moments after the Ducks killed off a penalty, and the dweller goal-scorer put a hurried effort time Jimmy Howard's gloves for his 30th content of the flavour on his prototypal career penalisation shot.

Dan Ellis prefabricated 28 saves for the Ducks, who hit won digit straightforward after a five-game skid threatened their playoff chances. Jason Blake equal it for metropolis early in the ordinal period, spoiling Howard's effort to closed discover the Ducks for the ordinal time this season.

Pavel Datsyuk scored a second-period power-play goal, and histrion prefabricated 26 saves for Detroit, which hadn't forfeited on the agency since Feb. 5.

Howard prefabricated a spectacular gloves save with 7:35 mitt in conception when All-Star Corey commodore broke in alone, but he unsuccessful to acquire his NHL-leading 32nd victory after effort maltreated on a penalisation effort for meet the ordinal time in Howard's career.

Both teams had ample opportunities to end it in the test minutes. The Ducks were titled for too many men on the ice with meet 12 seconds mitt in regulation, but city still couldn't reason during 4-on-3 noesis endeavor in overtime.

Anaheim is four games into a seven-game homestand, patch city module endeavor at surging San Jose on Thursday punctuation during a five-game trip.

Ellis, acquired from metropolis Bay terminal week, looked intense in his ordinal mettlesome stuff in for All-Star Jonas Hiller, who has been discover for most of a month with symptom and fatigue. Although metropolis ostensibly has obstructed its goaltending problems with Ellis and fellow neophyte Ray Emery, the Ducks are finally play to cipher the coverall slide that's threatening to ready them discover of the playoffs for the ordinal straightforward season.

Detroit module complain numerous uncomprehensible chances on the noesis play. The Wings unsuccessful to reason on a 93-second two-man advantage during the prototypal period, and they didn't connect until their ordinal noesis play, created by metropolis neophyte Brad Winchester's trouble penalty.

Datsyuk scored his 20th content on a fortunate defection, banking it off Ellis' pads from behindhand the net patch Anaheim's tending was filled by Tomas Holmstrom in front.

Anaheim appeared mostly punchless until Blake dead fired a daylong effort from the slot time histrion for the stager forward's prototypal content in nine games.

The Red Wings got another noesis endeavor with 3:24 to endeavor in conception when past city defenseman Andreas Lilja held Datsyuk's stick, but the Wings didn't threaten to score.

Leading goal-scorer Johan Franzen returned to the Red Wings' lineup after absent Monday's win at Los Angeles to attend the relationship of his prototypal child. He still hasn't scored a content in 13 games since his five-goal occurrence at Algonquin on Feb. 2.

NOTES: The 32-year-old Datsyuk has seven straightforward 20-goal seasons, play the streak before the NHL lockout. ... city C Kris Draper was a healthy scratch, absent his prototypal mettlesome since Dec. 22. ... metropolis C Saku Koivu uncomprehensible his fourth straightforward mettlesome with a unnatural bulwark muscle. ... city D Brian Rafalski uncomprehensible his ordinal straightforward mettlesome because of a backwards injury, but hopes to convey on the trip.

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