Ducks Lose Thriller To Thrashers, 5-4

ANAHEIM (AP) -- Anthony Stewart scored his first three goals of the season, completing his first career hat trick with a tying power-play goal that was upheld by video replay late in the third period, and the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-4 in a shootout on Friday night.

Stewart, who had only four goals in 105 games entering this season, got the equalizer with 5:22 left in regulation while Corey Perry was off for slashing Alexander Burmistrov. Atlanta's Rich Peverley tried to bat a fluttering puck into the net with a high stick and grazed it, then Stewart's stick also hit the puck before it went in.

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Two of Stewart's goals came with the man advantage. He had a chance to win it in the final seconds of regulation, but the puck slid off his stick at the end of a breakaway and Jonas Hiller was able to stop it with his right leg.

Hiller stopped Atlanta's first three shots of the shootout before Nigel Dawes beat him to the glove side to end it.

Chris Mason made 37 saves for the Thrashers and turned aside all three Anaheim shots in the tiebreaker.

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