Ducks 4, Red Wings 3, 3OT.
Todd Marchant cut through the neutral zone, wristed a shot from the top of the left circle, and watched the puck sail over Chris Osgood's glove 1:15 into the third overtime.
Jonas Hiller finished with 59 saves, and the series shifts back to Anaheim tied 1-1.
Marchant told NBC's Darren Pang after the game that "guys battled all night. It's like we said during intermission, it's going to take one little break somewhere, here or there. Forunately for us it happened early. I saw the defenseman slide over to his right, my left, I slid back the to right side. Fortunately for me (the shot) went in the net."
Asked about the challenge of playing 101 minutes of hockey, Marchant replied, "we said that our practices are harder than what we have to play right now -- Teemu (Selanne) actually said that."
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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