(SportsNetwork.com) - The Anaheim Ducks will try to begin December with a third consecutive victory when they visit the Minnesota Wild for Fridays Western Conference battle at Xcel Energy Center. The Ducks ended November on a brief 0-2 slide, but the Pacific Division leaders kicked off the new month with home wins over Boston and Philadelphia. Anaheim hopes to keep heading in the right direction tonight, when it begins a road-heavy portion of its schedule. The Ducks are playing two straight and seven of their next eight as the guest, beginning with Fridays tilt in St. Paul. The Ducks, who are tied with Vancouver for the division lead, have a 7-3-2 road record this season but have lost three of their four away from Orange County. After edging the Bruins 3-2 in regulation on Monday, the Ducks were pushed to the shootout phase by Philadelphia. Jakob Silfverberg and Corey Perry scored in the tiebreaker to lift Anaheim to the 5-4 win. Anaheim rallied from 3-1 down to eventually grab a 4-3 edge on Patrick Maroons goal with 5:02 left in regulation. However, the Flyers would answer back as Wayne Simmonds scored with 1.8 seconds left in the third to even the score and send the game to overtime. Maroon and Ryan Getzlaf each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who have won five of their last seven games. Frederik Andersen made 31 saves before stopping two of Philadelphias three shooters in the tiebreaker. The Flyers held their biggest lead after R.J. Umberger scored to make it 3-1 at 10:47 of the second period. Getzlaf, however, would tally just 28 seconds later to make it a one-goal game again. We werent happy with the 3-1 deficit, but we thought we were in it, said Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau. It was a good thing Getzlaf scored quickly after they made it 3-1 so we didnt get a chance to get down any further. Andersen could get the start in net. His only career appearance against the Wild came on Oct. 17, when Andersen stopped 27-of-28 shots to help Anaheim record a 2-1 regulation win on home ice. The Ducks have won seven of the last eight meetings in this series and Minnesota has lost four straight encounters as the host. The Wild won in their last trip to the ice despite playing without top defenseman Ryan Suter, who is the latest Minnesota player to contract the mumps. Suter had played in every game since joining the Wild as a free agent in the summer of 2012, but had to sit out Wednesdays 2-1 home win over Montreal due to illness. The workhorse defenseman joins Keith Ballard, Jonas Brodin, Christian Folin and Marco Scandella as Minnesota players who have missed time this season due to the mumps. Sutter, who leads the NHL with over 29 minutes of ice time per contest, is questionable for tonight. Minnesota is on a three-game point streak (2-0-1) after edging the visiting Canadiens on Wednesday. Darcy Kuemper stopped 18 shots and Jason Pominville scored the game winner in the second period to help the Wild pick up the close victory. Jason Zucker also provided a first-period tally for the Wild, who have won three of their last five. Minnesotas season-long struggles on the power play continued Wednesday, as the team won despite going 0-for-5 with the man advantage. The Wild are ranked 29th in the league in power-play efficiency, and the home crowd let the club hear it on Wednesday. It doesnt matter. We beat arguably the best team in the Eastern Conference, said a defiant Wild forward Zach Parise when asked what he thought of the home fans booing the ineffective power play. You want us to score four power-play goals and lose? Kuemper could start again tonight and is 1-2-0 with a 2.38 GAA in his career against Anaheim. The Wild are playing the third part of a four-game homestand tonight and will close the residency Tuesday against the New York Islanders. 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He believes the streaking Leafs have more in them.We think this groups got more to give, he said. We think we still have some areas we definitely need to clean up and work on. And were going to continue to be a work in progress, I think as every team is.The road will also get tougher. Toronto has played 20 games at home so far and, after one more Air Canada Centre date Tuesday with Anaheim, faces eight of nine games away from home.We have to skate, we cant turn that puck over and we have to establish that forechecking game, Carlyle said, detailing his recipe for success. Thats when were most effective.Carlyle has seen his team ride peaks and valleys. He knows things can go south quickly.Theres always danger. Pro sports is about danger, youre always living on the edge ... If you look at the schedule we have and the opponents we have coming, it can have a snowball effect. Wed like to keep this snowball rolling in our direction and not allow it to go in any other direction.After going up 2-0 in the first period on goals by Mike Santorelli and Cody Franson, Toronto wobbled late in the second period as Justin Williams and Dwight King scored three minutes 44 seconds apart.The Kings pulled ahead 1:02 into the third when Marian Gaborik, taking a slick pass from Williams, beat James Reimer on the second try after the goalie stopped the first shot. The Leafs answered on the power play with James van Riemsdyk redirecting a Franson pass past Jonathan Quick at 6:49 for his 13th goal, making it 3-3.Reimer had the last laugh in the shootout, stopping Gaborik, Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar. He is now 9-9 in shootouts, having stopped 41 of 60 attemptsJoffrey Lupul scored the lone goal for Toronto in the shootout, beating Quick. Tyler Bozak and Santorelli missed.Theyre a good team, said Kings defenceman Drew Doughty. I think maybe we could have deserved a little bit better if we had got off to a better start.dddddddddddd But we didnt and thats why we lost.It was a game that took a while to reach the boil but the third period was fast-paced and entertaining before an Air Canada Centre crowd of 19,219 on a rare 5 p.m. local time Sunday start.Los Angeles outshot the Leafs 33-30 in regulation and 36-31 in total. Torontos second line of Nazem Kadri, Santorelli and Daniel Winnik excelled for the home side.The Kings (15-10-6), who wrap up a five-game road trip in St. Louis on Tuesday, have lost four of their past five and are 4-4-2 in their last 10.We need to play desperate, said Doughty, because were losing points and were slowly getting out of the playoff spots. So we definitely need to start paying attention to the standings and win more games.The frustration is building for the defending champions.Were used to winning, said Doughty. We have a lot of winners as players on this team and as an organization. Its definitely frustrating. But we need to get through it as players together and get to where we know we can be.The second period has belonged to the Leafs this season with a league-high 41 goals. But the Kings ruled this time.Williams cut the lead to 2-1 with his eighth goal at 16:02. The King winger beat Jake Gardiner on a rush, helped somewhat by a lucky bounce, and swept the puck in past Reimer. King then tied it up at 19:46, twisting Franson inside out en route to the goal from the corner before neatly depositing the puck past Reimer, who thought he had it.Former Kings goalie Jonathan Bernier got the night off after helping the Leafs to a 4-1 win over visiting Detroit on Saturday. It was Reimers second start in 11 games, a stretch that included a stellar 41-save performance in a road win over the Wings on Wednesday.Santorelli, celebrating his 29th birthday, opened the scoring at 14:00 of the first when he came from behind the net, after taking a deft pass from Winnik, and beat Quick high stick-side for his sixth of the season.Trevor Lewis had a glorious chance for the Kings late in the period when, with Reimer face down, he hit the bottom of the goalpost and the puck bounced under the goalie.Franson made it 2-0 with 30 seconds left in the first period, floating a shot through traffic from the blue-line for his fifth goal of the season.Toronto emerged from the period with the lead despite being outshot 11-8 and losing 16 of 20 faceoffs.Follow @NeilMDavidson on Twitter ' ' '