ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Although Terry Troy was only five games away from his NHL career, he had already become a legend of the shootout before even reaching Anaheim.

When he had his first barrage opportunity for the Ducks on Monday night, Terry had the same talent he had used to win two huge shootouts at the World Junior Championships last year.

Terry sent the happy crowd home – with a lot of help from John Gibson, of course.

Terry scored the only shootout goal, Gibson made 19 saves and the Ducks celebrated the home opening game of their 25th birthday with a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings.

Jakob Silfverberg scored the equalizer in 11:31 and Hampus Lindholm also scored. The Ducks improved their score to 3-0-0 for the first time since their 2006-07 season at the Stanley Cup championship.

Terry scored between Jimmy Howard's legs in his fifth NHL game, and Gibson stopped all three Red Wings fencers.

Terry made him three times famous for the US junior team against Russia in a semifinal in Montreal in January 2017. He placed the puck over Howard with roughly the same shot from five holes that he had used three times against Ilya Samsonov during this win. .

"There is so much pressure every time I jump over the wall to take them," said Terry. "I'm kind of known to have scored five holes, so I figured I'd try again, luckily it worked, it's the strangest thing, my brain is limited to one." thing."

Terry also scored the only shootout goal of the championship game against Canada to win the World Junior Championship, but he does not claim any particular expertise in shootout skills. The Ducks coach, Randy Carlyle, was not in agreement, sending the rookie as the second gunman.

"It was pretty easy (to choose it) because he was able to score," said Carlyle. "It was a natural."

Tyler Bertuzzi and Darren Helm scored and Howard stopped 24 shots for the Red Wings, who are without a win in their first three games. Detroit could not hold two heads in a match between two young line-ups getting an NHL experience on the fly.

"I think we'll just stay the course," said striker Gustav Nyquist. "We liked the way we played, especially in the first two games, and today we could be a little better with the puck, but overall we will be fine if we continue to play. compete as we are. "

Exactly twenty-five years after the Anaheim Mighty Ducks debuted at the Honda Center against the Red Wings, the teams came together for the Ducks' home opener. Detroit spoiled the Mighty Ducks debut on October 8, 1993 with a 7-2 win.

After starting this season with two victories on the road despite exhausted training, Anaheim has finally opened her birthday season at the Honda Center, the home of the Ducks for all their existence – and much better known hockey fans like The Pond.

Captain Ryan Getzlaf, NHL MVP Corey Perry, Selke Trophy winner Ryan Kesler, and forwards Patrick Eaves and Ondrej Kase all missed the opening game due to injury.

"They are finding ways to win now without their big players in training," Howard said of the Ducks.

Six recruits were part of the Ducks starting lineup, highlighting Anaheim's commitment to using its many young talents this season.

"We put them in historical situations where they would play at lower levels," said Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle. "It's the best league in the world.They have survived, so hopefully they're feeling good."

The Ducks hosted a brief pre-match ceremony in the first chapter of a story-telling celebration of an expansion franchise named after a children's movie as part of the Walt Disney Company's adventure in team sports from the 1990s. Owners Henry and Susan Samueli dropped the first ceremonial puck alongside Michael Eisner, the former Disney president who had directed the franchise.

NOTES: Isac Lundestrom, an 18-year-old Swedish center, made his NHL debut for the Ducks. He is the youngest and youngest player ever to make his debut with Anaheim. … D Joe Hicketts returned to the Red Wings after Trevor Daley injured himself in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Healthy Canadians wore eggplant and jade jerseys from 1993 during pre-game warm-ups, and they were playing in their new third sweater using similar colors and the club's original logo with a guardian mask and crossed hockey sticks.

FOLLOWING

Red Wings: Welcome Toronto Thursday.

Ducks: Welcome Arizona Wednesday.

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