Leave it to the player who looks like a character from “The Revenant” to lead the Ducks out of the wilderness.
The heavily bearded Patrick Eaves does all the things the Ducks have been meaning to do in going to the net, being on the attack and playing with the puck.
And Tuesday night, he had two assists and the game-winning goal in the fifth round of the shootout for a 4-3 win over the Nashville Predators.
The Ducks discovered their forechecking game in the second half of a Jekyll-and-Hyde game they desperately needed to win before a run of three games in four nights against the Chicago Blackhawks, St.