The Battle of the Birds continues with the Anaheim Ducks beating the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on a two goal performance by Joe Thornton. Wings netminder Jimmy Howard was standing on his head early on but the Ducks are looking like road warriors winning their 4th straight away from home on their current 6 game road trip.
Detroit scored first with Henrik Zetterberg getting his second of the season at 12:20 of the first but the Ducks answered in the second with two of their own. Left winger Ryan Clowe got a power play goal goal early and the Patrick Marleau goal where he chips it over Howard while racing former Ian White to retrieve Douglas Murray's long pass.
Tomas Holmstrom got his first of the year to tie it on a power play goal seven minutes later but then Joe Thornton put Anaheim back into the lead for good with his goal late in the second period. Thornton added an empty net goal after the Red Wings pulled Howard with a minute left.
Ducks netminder Antti Niemi's record improves to 4-1-0 winning 4 in a row after dropping his first start of the season while Jimmy Howard has the same record of 4-1-0 and had his four game winning streak snapped with the loss.
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