Perry, Ducks pull away to beat Bruins 6-2

BOSTON – The Boston Bruins did not have an update on goaltender Jonas Gustavsson, who was removed from Tuesday’s game after the first period due to illness and was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital. The Ducks caught the Bruins on a line change as Bieksa had all day to wind up as Silfverberg set the screen in front of Rask.

After struggling through the first few months, the Ducks’ offense has come alive in January and was on display after Boston took a 1-0 lead in the opening minute. Shea Theodore and Mike Santorelli also scored, and Anaheim has won five of six and takes a three-game winning streak into the All-Star break.

The Bruins also allowed the bigger, stronger and heavier Ducks to push them all over the ice for the 60-minute game, and Claude Julien said that should also serve as another lesson to a young group of B’s players. The Ducks have now won a whopping 30 straight games when scoring four goals or more.

“Good things are starting to happen now and you just got to continue do that”.

Frederik Andersen finished with 32 saves for the Ducks.

“To be honest with you, I have no idea”, Julien said. The Ducks head into tonight’s game sitting in fifth place in the Pacific division but are only two points back of the third place Coyotes are playing some of their best hockey of the season as they are on a 6-3-1 stretch that has them back in playoff contention.

Gustavsson was gone after the period and Rask gave up the third goal on a Perron backhander on the rebound of a shot by Chris Stewart, who had taken a pass from Getzlaf. It was the second career goal for Trotman. The forward found Corey Perry entering the zone open, and Perry rifled a quick snap shot past Gustavsson for the tying goal at 7:54 in the first period. They will have a week off before beginning their second half of the year at home against the Toronto Maple Leafs (17-20-9) next Tuesday night. Marchand has recorded five goals in five games since returning from a three-game suspension for clipping Ottawa’s Mark Borowiecki. The Ducks welcomed D Simon Despres back after he missed 42 games with concussion symptoms, but they learned earlier in the day they lost C Shawn Horcoff for 20 games for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program….