ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Rickard Rakell scored twice and Jonathan Bernier stopped 37 shots to beat his former team as the Anaheim Ducks got a 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night.
Jakob Silfverberg and Sami Vatanen also scored goals and Patrick Eaves got his first with the Ducks on an empty-net score to wrap up an impressive win coming off their league-mandated bye week.
Making his fourth consecutive start, Bernier was sharp in his first game since being victimized by the Los Angeles Kings during a third-period meltdown by the Ducks last week at Staples Center. It was Bernier's first game against the Leafs since they traded him to Anaheim last summer.
The Ducks (33-21-10) managed to overcome three minor penalties from long-struggling goal scorer Corey Perry, with the last of those cashed in on Nazem Kadri's power-play scored 5:53 into the second period. They couldn't jump-start their own ice-cold power play but they didn't need to.
Rakell factored into that and Silfverberg joined him in a 16-second sequence that turned the game later in the second. Toronto's impressive youngsters have thrilled often but made some critical errors on this night, with Mitch Marner turning the puck over in the Leafs zone to Ryan Kesler.
Kesler dropped a pass to Silfverberg in the slot and the winger followed up his initial shot on Leafs' goalie Curtis McElhinney with a sterling backhand top-shelf shot on the rebound for a 2-2 tie. The goal extended Kesler and Silfverberg's point streaks to three games after each went four without one.
And then it was the other Swedes that put the Ducks up before the crowd of 16,293 could get settled back into their seats. Hampus Lindholm hopped to the blue line to keep Leafs forward Connor Brown from getting the puck out and the defenseman threw the puck toward the net.
Trailing behind the play, Rakell took advantage of the quick counter by putting the puck by a sprawling McElhinney for his 26th of the season. It became his fourth two-goal game of the season and the team-leading goal total has come on 126 shots, just the seventh-highest on the Ducks.
Rakell started it off with a one-time conversion past McElhinney after Chris Wagner put in some extra effort to get past Toronto defenseman Alexey Marchenko and get the puck to the scorching scorer. Wagner was playing in his first game since being recalled from San Diego of the AHL.
The Leafs pulled even nearly six minutes later in the first. Nikita Zaitsev's point shot went in off Zach Hyman's glove as the forward looked for a deflection. It was Hyman's first goal in 13 games.
Carlyle challenged the scoring play contending Toronto was offside, but a review ruled that Auston Matthews stayed onside when William Nylander brought the puck into the offensive zone.
