Mon Jan 14 00:02:39 2008

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Ducks escape defeat with stunning OT win over Sharks

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Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - Doug Weight tied the game with 27.7 seconds left in regulation on a lucky deflection and Francois Beauchemin won it 33 seconds into overtime in Anaheim's 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks.

Todd Bertuzzi and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks, who have won three in a row and five of six. Jean Sebastien-Giguere made 26 saves, as Anaheim moved to 5-0-1 against the Sharks this season.

"Some nights we play good and we don't win and tonight was one of those nights where we didn't play our best, but we got the two points," Beauchemin said.

The Sharks had won 10 consecutive road games dating back to Nov. 14 at Dallas (a franchise record) and it was tied for the second-longest mark in a single season in NHL history. San Jose went 13 games without losing in regulation on the road, going 12-0-1 in that stretch before faltering on Sunday.

Evgeni Nabokov had his start streak end at 43 games, and Thomas Greiss made his NHL debut and allowed four goals on 29 shots for the Pacific Division- leaders.

Jeremy Roenick, Torrey Mitchell, and Milan Michalek scored while Joe Thornton had two assists for the Sharks, who had a three-game win streak broken.

"These are games I think we should have won," San Jose's Mike Grier said. "We played well enough to win, but when it comes down to it they make the plays they need to make and we're not as strong. We had a little lapse in our own end and it cost us."

San Jose scored three times in the third period to down the Maple Leafs, 3-2, at HP Pavilion on Saturday, but just one day later the tables were turned.

With the Ducks goaltender pulled for an extra attacker, Weight held the puck along the right boards and then fired it toward the crease. The disc deflected off the right skate of Alexei Semenov and past Greiss.

The Sharks nearly won it at the end of regulation, but Giguere made a stop on an attempt by Michalek.

In the opening moments of the extra session, Todd Marchant fed a pass from the right circle to the left side for Beauchemin's successful deflection between the pads of Greiss.

Roenick scored on the power play 2:11 into the game, but Bertuzzi responded nearly seven minutes later.

The Sharks went ahead after Mitchell's goal on a short-handed deflection with 4:37 left in the first, and it became 3-1 on Michalek's tally at 14:02 of the second.

Perry scored with 3:05 left in the second on a scramble in front.

Game Notes

These teams won't meet again until March 24 at San Jose...Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf had an assist to extend his point streak to 10 games....Nabokov had the second-longest longest streak of starts for a goaltender in a single season since 1989-90, a game shy of Martin Brodeur during the 1995-96 campaign.