Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 36 saves and the Anaheim Ducks, playing without suspended star Chris Pronger, beat Detroit 5-3 on Thursday to level their NHL playoff series.
Ryan Getzlaf broke a 3-3 deadlock with a power play goal 5:24 into the third period and Rob Niedermayer added an empty-net tally with 68 seconds remaining as Anaheim equalized the Western Conference final at two wins each.
The best-of-seven series continues tomorrow at Detroit and returns to Anaheim on Tuesday with a seventh game on Thursday at Detroit if needed. The winner will face either Ottawa or Buffalo in the Stanley Cup championship series.
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Star defenseman Pronger, who had been the Ducks' top playoff scorer, was banished by the league for a game after hitting Detroit's Tomas Holmstron in the head during a loss to the Red Wings on Tuesday.
Finnish star Teemu Selanne scored one goal and assisted on two others while defenseman Francois Beauchemin set up a pair of goals for the Ducks.
Anaheim's Corey Perry opened the scoring 97 seconds into the game but Detroit's Dan Cleary equalized 1:52 later.
Selanne and Richard Jackman added goals later in the first period to give the Ducks a 3-1 edge but Cleary and Todd Bertuzzi each scored a power play goal in the second period to level the score, setting up Getzlaf's unanswered third-period tally.
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