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ST. PAUL http://www.avalancheshoponline.com/authentic-j.t.-compher-jersey , Minn. (AP) Nick Ritchie isn’t one of the first players called upon for the Anaheim Ducks in a shootout.He wasn’t among the first 10 shooters Saturday.Yet, Ritchie scored in the 11th round of the shootout and John Gibson stopped the final seven shooters in the Ducks’ 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild.Article continues below ...”It seems like once it gets over five or six (rounds) it can go over 15 sometimes, so there was a good chance I was going to get a shot there and I capitalized on it,” said Ritchie, whose quick shot split the pads of Devan Dubnyk. Ritchie missed his other shootout attempt this season.Prior to the goal, the teams combined for 13 straight misses.”Anytime you win a shootout that goes that long, you feel fortunate you get the extra point. Some big stops from our goaltender, and we found a guy who scored the big goal. We’ll take it,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said.They’ll also gladly take the extra point that lifted the Ducks into a tie with the Wild for the second wild-card slot in the Western Conference. Anaheim also jumped Calgary for third in the Pacific Division, although the Flames play Saturday night.”It’s teams battling for playoffs. You’re battling for your lives right now,” said Corey Perry, who scored in regulation along with Ondrej Kase. ”There’s only 23 Youth Matt Nieto Jersey , 24 games, whatever it is, left and you need every point you can get.”Ryan Getzlaf and Kase also scored for Anaheim in the shootout. Gibson made 36 saves for the Ducks, 4-1-1 in their past six.”It’s going to come down to the wire. That point could end up being huge for us later on, you never know,” Ritchie said.Mikko Koivu and Jason Zucker scored in regulation for Minnesota, Nino Niederreiter and Zach Parise connected in in the shootout, and Dubnyk made 28 saves.Minnesota ended a five-game homestand 2-1-2 and is 20-5-6 at Xcel Energy Center, including points in 14 of its last 15. However, Minnesota is 11-15-1 away from home. The Wild will play 14 of their final 24 games on the road, including the next three games in and near New York City.”We had some good games and some areas where we definitely need to get better but overall we definitely had a solid homestand. Now it’s on the road and we have to make sure we get better and better every game,” Niederreiter said. ”We’re definitely on the right track. Even today Mikko Rantanen Jersey , the guys played very good and at the end of the day, we lost in a shootout so sometimes you have that luck on your side. Sometimes you don’t.”Anaheim won for the third time in 22 games when trailing after two periods. Kase tied it at 2 at 6:12 of the third, stopping a point shot from Hampus Lindholm, shifting the puck to his forehand and tucking it past Dubnyk. Kase has five goals in seven games.Perry and Koivu scored in the first, and Zucker gave the Wild a 2-1 lead with his career-high 23rd goal midway through the second, tipping in a shot from Nate Prosser. Initially waved off for being touched by a high stick, it was deemed a good goal after the four officials conferred near the penalty box.NOTES: Eleven rounds is the longest shootout in Minnesota history. Anaheim went 14 rounds in a Nov. 22, 2016, home loss to the Islanders. … Anaheim C Ryan Kesler missed the game with a lower-body injury. Considered day-to-day, he’d played 22 straight games since returning Dec. 27 from offseason hip surgery. … Minnesota scratched LW Tyler Ennis for the first time in 10 games – and third time this season. He was replaced by RW Chris Stewart, a healthy scratch for the past five games.UP NEXTDucks: At Vegas on Monday night.Wild: At New York Islanders on Monday.— SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Brent Burns delivered a clutch goal on a night he reached a milestone that is a testament to his durability.Burns scored midway through the third period of his 1 http://www.avalancheshoponline.com/authentic-nathan-mackinnon-jersey ,000th career game and led the San Jose Sharks to a 4-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night.“It’s just nice to score a goal again, it had been so long. It’s nice to contribute — I feel good about that,” Burns said.Burns scored his fifth goal at 10:21 of the third period to break a 2-2 tie, and the Sharks snapped a three-game losing streak. The 33-year-old Burns was playing in his 428th consecutive regular-season game. The 2017 Norris Trophy winner as the league’s top defenseman hasn’t missed a game since November 2013.“What a great career,” Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said. “For a guy who was drafted as a forward and changed positions and got traded and wins the Norris Trophy as a defenseman. Just the way he approaches the game and what he brings to the rink every day. It’s a great accomplishment for him from where he’s come from, but it looks like he’s got a lot more games left in him.”Burns’ goal was controversial, with the Ducks asserting that the play should have been called dead when the puck went into the netting moments earlier.Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said he couldn’t challenge what he considered a blown call.“That’s what you chalk it up to,” Carlyle said. “You can plainly see there’s five players on our hockey club stopped playing, but that happens.”Marcus Sorensen, Melker Karlsson and Tomas Hertl also scored for San Jose. Barclay Goodrow had two assists and Martin Jones had 26 saves.Jakob Silfverberg and Kiefer Sherwood scored for Anaheim, which lost its fourth straight game after winning four in a row and nine of 10.The Ducks trailed 2-1 when Sherwood scored his fifth goal at 3:53 of the third period.Anaheim scored first, getting a power-play goal by Silfverberg — his 10th — midway through the first period.Karlsson tied it for San Jose with his fourth goal with just under two minutes left in the first period.Sorensen scored his seventh goal at 5:44 of the second period to give San Jose a 2-1 lead.Hertl added an empty netter for San Jose with 23 seconds left. It was his 13th goal and 200th career point.Ducks goalie Chad Johnson came in for starter John Gibson at the start of the second period Patrick Roy Jersey , who left the game with an upper-body injury. Johnson gave up two goals and turned back 22 shots. Gibson gave up one goal and had 16 saves.Carlyle said Gibson’s injury status wasn’t immediately known.“I always warm up and prepare at the start of the games,” Johnson said. “You never know in this league what’s going to happen. I was as prepared as I could be for that situation, but you’re never fully into it compared to when you know you’re going to start and your mindset the whole day is different, but it’s part of my job and I’m confident with my ability. It’s just kind of getting out there and getting warm and getting into the flow of things. It’s difficult, but it’s part of the job.”NOTES: Ducks D Cam Fowler (facial fracture) skated earlier this week and is close to returning, but didn’t join the team in San Jose. . Sharks D Joakim Ryan was in the lineup after being a healthy scratch 11 straight games. . Anaheim concluded a season-long six-game trip. . The Ducks were 5-0-2 in San Jose going back to 2015. . Sharks veterans C Joe Thornton rejoined F Joe Pavelski on first line, and Hertl moved from second line wing to third line center in lineup shuffle that involved all four lines.UP NEXTDucks: Host Arizona on Saturday.Sharks: Visit Edmonton on Saturday.