Penalty killing kept the Anaheim Ducks in the game on Sunday night. The power play won it for them.

Corey Perry scored the go-ahead goal on a power play 7:51 into the third period as the Ducks recovered from a double-overtime loss at home in Game 2 with a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.

Perry's goal, on a screened slap shot from the top of the faceoff circle, came 70 seconds after the Ducks killed off his holding penalty, and less than five minutes after the Canucks failed to score on their second lengthy 5-on-3 of the game.

"We had to weather the storm on the penalty kill and we took a few too many tonight," said Perry, who also set up Dustin Penner's goal 3:08 into the first period.

Francois Beauchemin also scored, and Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 24 saves, including three in the final seconds, as the Ducks took a 2-1 series lead.

Special teams made the difference as the Ducks killed off seven of eight power plays and converted two of their five chances at the other end.

"We had a pretty good power play all year," Perry said. "It's a big key to our game and a big key to our team, we feed off the momentum from our power play."

For the Canucks, the power play was a momentum killer.

Just 3-for-50 in the playoffs coming into the game, Markus Naslund scored with the man advantage late in the first period. But Vancouver managed just two shots during a two-man advantage for 1:22 early in the third period, and failed to get a shot on Perry's penalty just before the winning goal.