Ducks at Blues
After beginning the season with a three-game winning streak, the Anaheim Ducks look to avoid a third straight setback when they visit the St. Louis Blues on Sunday. Anaheim lost to Arizona in a shootout on Wednesday before dropping a 5-3 decision at Dallas three nights later.
Rookie forward Kiefer Sherwood scored his first career goal as the Ducks built a 3-0 lead against the Stars before yielding five straight tallies - one fewer than the amount they surrendered in their first four contests. The Blues enter the contest with a three-game point streak (1-0-2) after falling 4-3 in overtime at Chicago on Saturday. St. Louis scored three consecutive goals after yielding the first two but was unable to hold the lead as it suffered its second overtime loss to the Blackhawks in eight days. Brayden Schenn netted his first two tallies of the season and David Perron recorded his team-leading fourth for the Blues, who are 6-for-20 on the power play after converting two of their four opportunities on Saturday.
TV: 7 p.m. ET, Prime Ticket (Anaheim), FS Midwest (St. Louis)
ABOUT THE DUCKS (3-1-1): Sherwood was not the only player on the team to notch his first point in the NHL on Saturday as Sam Steel and Isac Lundestrom each registered an assist against Dallas. The rookies have been necessary members of Anaheim's lineup as Corey Perry, Patrick Eaves and Ondrej Kase have yet to play this season due to injuries while Ryan Kesler and captain Ryan Getzlaf each have appeared in only two games thanks to ailments. The Ducks lost another forward on Saturday as Carter Rowney took just one shift before exiting with an upper-body injury.
ABOUT THE BLUES (1-1-2): Perron has scored four goals in his last two games after registering 16 in 70 contests with Vegas last season. The 30-year-old left wing, who signed a four-year contract as a free agent in July, is on his third tour of duty with St. Louis as he spent the first six seasons of his career with the club after being selected in the first round of the 2007 draft and returned as a free agent for the 2016-17 campaign. Schenn, who set career highs last season with 28 goals, 42 assists and 70 points - leading the team in the latter two categories, tops the club with five points in four contests.
OVERTIME
1. Three of Perron's four goals have come on the power play.
2. Anaheim RW Jakob Silfverberg, who leads the club with six points, is five goals shy of 100 for his career.
3. Each team has seen only five of the 22 skaters that have appeared in a game thus far fail to record a point.