When hosting your most hated rival, it’s imperative to pull out all the stops. Just ask the Anaheim Ducks.

After allowing the Los Angeles Kings to score 57 seconds into the second period Sunday night, the Ducks wasted no time delivering a response. A mere 33 seconds later, Anaheim defenseman Shea Theodore pounded a point shot that zipped past three players, hit the stick of forward Rickard Rakell in midair, hooked casually to the left and straightened out just enough to get over the shoulder of Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick.

Oh, yes.

“Ridiculous” seems like an undersell for a deflection that good, since Theodore’s original shot certainly would have gone wide of the net.

“I just saw the puck coming up behind me and tried to get something on it,” Rakell told Fox Sports at second intermission. “I was surprised to see it go in.”

The goal, which tied the latest installment of the “Freeway Faceoff” at 1-1, was Rakell’s ninth of the season, which incidentally also tied his 71-game season total from last year. And since he couldn’t create this particular goal again if he tried, it’s a fitting milestone tally.