ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Corey Perry crumpled to the ice and crawled to the bench in the second period, his right leg hanging limply from his torso after a leg-on-leg hit. Just a few minutes later, Anaheim’s top goal-scorer willed himself back onto the ice.
A period or so after that, Perry bounced up off his knees and leaned into a goalmouth scramble to score the goal that propelled the streaking Ducks into the Western Conference finals.
“Textbook Perry,” Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen said with a grin.
Perry scored his seventh goal of an incredible postseason 2:26 into overtime, and the Ducks eliminated the Calgary Flames with a 3-2 victory Sunday night in Game 5 of their second-round series.
Matt Beleskey got the tying power-play goal early in the third period for the Ducks, who have won eight of their nine playoff games this spring. They will face the Chicago Blackhawks for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals in a tantalizing collision of two NHL powers.