For the second straight game, the Phoenix Coyotes got two goals from defensemen and beat another Pacific Division rival in the process.
Sunday night, Jim Vandermeer scored his second goal of the game at 1:18 of overtime, center Matthew Lombardi also scored and Robert Lang had two assists, leading the Coyotes to a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday night.
"It was one of those games where we kind of just hung in there," Vandermeer said. "They kind of outplayed us a little bit, but we kept to our game plan and kept throwing pucks at the net."
Ilya Bryzgalov made 26 saves against his former team, helping end Anaheim's season-best three-game winning streak. The Ducks have been outscored 34-26 in the third period through their first 26 contests.
"A team that is down 1-0 in the third is going to skate, so you have to match their intensity," Ducks goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere said. "We didn't do that and let them come, and they managed a way to score a couple of goals."
Ryan Getzlaf and Bobby Ryan scored for Anaheim, and Giguere made 23 saves after getting his 32nd career shutout Friday night in a 3-0 win over Chicago.
"Jiggy made a lot of saves early that you think would depress them at some point and get under their skin, but it didn't. They just kept hanging around," Ryan said. "We got ahead and stopped skating in the third period, and they dominated the period."
Anaheim's Corey Perry extended his points streak to 18 games with an assist on Ryan's tying goal with 1:54 left in regulation, breaking the franchise record set in 1999 by Teemu Selanne.
"It's important to focus on the positives," Giguere said. "We found a way to get a point at the end in the last two minutes, so we should be happy about that. The game didn't go exactly the way we wanted, but we know what we did wrong and what we did well."
The Ducks pulled even when former Phoenix defenseman Nick Boynton got the puck from Perry and took a wrist shot from the right point that deflected in off Ryan's stick while he was screening Bryzgalov in the low slot. But Vandermeer ended it with a 35-foot one-timer for his fourth goal of the season after Lang set him up in the slot.
"We weren't down or anything like that (after Ryan's goal). Anything can happen in overtime, so we just were going to go out there and play hard and see what happened and we got a good break," Vandermeer said. "Lang made a great play and I just put it on net."
Lombardi made a nifty more swerving across the front of the crease to put the Coyotes ahead 2-1 with 9:53 left in the third. The goal came less than 5 minutes after Vandermeer scored into a wide-open net with Giguere out of position, following a save on Lang's wrist shot.