Ducks score second-fastest three goals in NHL playoff history (Video)

In the third period of their Western Conference Final Game 4 against the Anaheim Ducks, the Chicago Blackhawks were feeling, well, ducky.

They had extended out to a 3-1 lead, and it looked like the Blackhawks would cruise to a win on home ice.

Then the Anaheim Ducks embarked on the second-fastest three goals scored in a Stanley Cup Playoff game in NHL history.

Center Ryan Kesler went to the net, banging his stick on the ice asking for the puck. It was Jakob Silfverberg that eventually found him, as Kesler snapped the puck past Chicago goalie Corey Crawford to cut the lead to 3-2 at 8:42.

Then it was Matt Beleskey, making a mockery of the Blackhawks’ trade deadline acquisitions to tie the game. He stripped Antoine Vermette of the puck, and then scored around Kimmo Timonen to knot the game at 3-3 at 9:05 of the third period. It was his sixth of the playoffs.

Fourteen seconds later, Ducks star Corey Perry scored his ninth of the postseason, sneaking behind Duncan Keith to collect the rebound of a Ryan Getzlaf shot and tuck it past Crawford for the 4-3 lead.

Three goals, 37 seconds. The second-fastest offensive outburst in NHL playoff history, second only to the 1979 Toronto Maple Leafs scoring three in 23 seconds against the Atlanta Flames in a 7-4 win.

One of the players in that game for the Leafs? Current Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville, who assisted on the third of the three goals.

So at least he knows these things happen. 

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