ANAHEIM -- Corey Perry slipped behind the defense and beat Eddie Lack five-hole at 4:58 of overtime to lead the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Honda Center on Sunday night.
The Ducks were on a 4-on-3 power play and the puck came out of their zone before Nick Bonino retrieved it and got it to Ryan Getzlaf, who slid the puck to Perry for the game-winner.
Lack made 45 saves on his 26th birthday. The Canucks signed Rob Laurie to a professional tryout contract to serve as Lack's backup after Roberto Luongo was reportedly injured in a 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.
Luongo's status was not immediately known. He was struck high by the leg of Kings captain Dustin Brown in the third period Saturday when Brown crashed the net to score. Luongo stayed down for several moments after the hit.
Anaheim outshot Vancouver 40-7 over the final 40 minutes of regulation and forced overtime with 1:33 left in regulation on Bonino's wrist shot from the left side after Jason Garrison couldn't clear the puck.
The injury-depleted Canucks were trying to become the first team this season to hand Anaheim a regulation loss at home, but the Ducks improved to 17-0-2 at Honda Center.
Lack anchored Vancouver during a third period played almost entirely in the Canucks' zone. Anaheim put 14 shots on Lack in the first 13 minutes of the third, only to have Lack stop Perry and Saku Koivu before Francois Beauchemin hit the post. Matt Beleskey later couldn't finish on an odd-man rush.
Kevin Bieksa gave Vancouver a 3-2 lead 66 seconds into the third when his wrist shot found its way through traffic and past Jonas Hiller (17 saves). Anaheim had seemingly demoralized Vancouver in the second period when it outshot the Canucks 20-2 and got goals by Saku Koivu and Beleskey to forge a 2-2 tie.
Koivu deflected Jakob Silfverberg's shot from the slot 24 seconds into the period after Bieksa turned it over below the goal line and Andrew Cogliano found a wide open Silfverberg. Beleskey completed a pretty rush with a backhand chip of Kyle Palmieri's backhand saucer pass at 16:38.
Palmieri blocked a shot in the defensive end to start the play.
Vancouver did not put a shot on goal in the second until 2:14, when Jason Garrison sent a 60-foot floater at Hiller. The Canucks also lost Zach Kassian after teammate Tom Sestito took a run at Hampus Lindholm, missed and had his skate smack Kassian in the face.
The first 20 minutes had Anaheim on its heels and Vancouver took a 2-0 lead on two power-play goals. Ryan Kesler one-timed Henrik Sedin's shot at 9:40 and Sedin's shot deflected off Cam Fowler's stick blade at 11:39 on a too-many-men penalty by Anaheim.
Vancouver could have increased its lead, but Mike Santorelli missed an open net and Kassian hit the right post.
Kesler has goals in two straight games after a 10-game drought.
Vancouver scratched Chris Higgins with illness. Anaheim's Mathieu Perreault was a healthy scratch.
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