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EDMONTON, Alberta - Jeered and cursed at by Oilers fans all night long, Chris Pronger never took his eyes off the ice. He simply played his steady game, assisted on a key goal and helped the Anaheim Ducks rally past his former team.
Ryan Getzlaf scored 2:19 into overtime after teammate Chris Kunitz tied the score with 17 seconds left in the third period, and Anaheim beat the Oilers 3-2 Tuesday night in Pronger’s return to Edmonton.
Pronger, who led the Oilers to the Stanley Cup finals last season and then asked to be traded, was booed every time he touched the puck. He assisted on Teemu Selanne’s power-play goal in the second period.
“Obviously, you’ve got to expect the worst. It was respectful, I think,” Pronger said. “It’s always nice to win when you come back and play a team you used to play for.”
Marty Reasoner and Ryan Smyth scored for Edmonton, which had won five straight.
The Oilers appeared to have this one in hand, too, but the Ducks pulled goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere for an extra attacker and scored late in the third. Kunitz grabbed the puck from a goalmouth scramble and backhanded it past Dwayne Roloson.
“It looked inevitable that they would get the goal. We played basically the whole third period in our own zone,” Oilers coach Craig MacTavish said in a quiet dressing room. “We got basically what we deserved.”
Pronger knew the tying goal was coming, too.
“We were coming on and they were going backwards,” he said.
It was the second time this season the Oilers lost to Anaheim. Pronger had three assists in the previous matchup, a 6-2 Ducks victory on Oct. 25.
Reasoner opened the scoring almost eight minutes into the first period. After linemate Raffi Torres dug the puck out of the corner, Reasoner fired a wrist shot from a bad angle over Giguere’s shoulder.
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“We did all the right things to win the hockey game but weren’t able to finish it off,” Roloson said.
When the anti-Pronger boos began to trail off midway through the second period, it was Pronger who reignited them. With the Ducks on a power play, he fired a wrist shot from the top of the right faceoff circle that Selanne, standing at the crease, tipped past Roloson to make it 2-1.
“We knew it would be a bit difficult for him coming back in here and we wanted to support him as much as we could,” said Anaheim captain Scott Niedermayer, who played in his 1,000th NHL game and got a rousing cheer when the milestone was announced.
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