ANAHEIM – Here’s what you need to know about the Ducks’ 5-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night:

THE GAME IN 140 CHARACTERS OR FEWER

– A red-hot offense scored in each period. Power play delivered twice. John Gibson was solid as needed. Flames again were lost in Anaheim.

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT

“I think they were trying to target me tonight and obviously it didn’t work.”

– Ducks center Ryan Kesler

STAT OF THE NIGHT

– The Ducks have won 22 consecutive regular-season home games over Calgary.

PLAYER OF THE GAME

– Ryan Kesler. Two goals, one assist, another dominant night in the faceoff circle and a shutdown effort on Calgary’s Sean Monahan. This was a little more than another night at the office.

ANALYSIS

– This one was predictable before the puck dropped. Yes, the game still has to be played but did you really expect another result given the divergent directions the Ducks and Flames are going and that Calgary hasn’t won in Anaheim at any time since Game 3 of the 2006 Western Conference quarterfinals? At this point, the Flames – who’ve taken a step back after a terrific 2014-15 season and run to the second round – don’t match up very well with the bigger, more physical Ducks. They’re better at turning the game into a track meet, which they did with some success in Calgary last week. But they tried to go the physical route Sunday and that failed miserably. It hasn’t helped that their goaltending, which includes former Ducks netminder Jonas Hiller, has been a weak point all season. Outside of a brief period in the second period, the Ducks controlled the game throughout.

The splitting up of Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry as longtime linemates continues to make a huge difference. There are three front-line veterans on different lines and when one is quiet like Perry was with the surging Rickard Rakell on Sunday, the others often respond. Kesler certainly looks as if he has entered into playoff mode and Getzlaf’s chemistry with David Perron continues to show staying power. What Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau was hoping has come to fruition – teams are finding it next to impossible to stop all three lines. Because Kesler and his cohorts Jakob Silfverberg and Andrew Cogliano willingly embrace the checking role against the top lines, it allows the Getzlaf and Perry groups to go up often against an opposition’s lesser defensive pairings. (Calgary’s Deryk Engelland had a particularly rough third period). All the Ducks need is for Nick Ritchie to break through. The rookie is still learning the game at the NHL level and he took two penalties but he also nearly got his first goal and was engaged physically throughout.

KEY MOMENT

– The first shift of the third period saw Mike Santorelli dive to poke the puck ahead into the offensive zone and David Perron took the puck away from Calgary’s Dougie Hamilton in the corner. Perron quickly saw remaining linemate Ryan Getzlaf head toward the net. Getzlaf shot off the pass and beat Flames goalie Jonas Hiller as he bowled over defenseman Deryk Engelland. Just like that, the Ducks restored their two-goal lead and weren’t threatened again.

ANY NEWS?

– Andrew Cogliano extended his consecutive game streak to 680, which moved him past Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin for the sixth-longest ironman streak in NHL history.

MORE POSTGAME QUOTES

BRUCE BOUDREAU

(on whether the opening 20 minutes was what he was looking for …)

“I thought our first period was pretty solid. I don’t think we gave them a chance even strength. It was our goal to come out here and hopefully break their will early. But it didn’t. They were determined. It was a tough game.”

(on Gibson’s work in goal …)

“Goalie was great today. When he’s playing like that – we got to give him a little more help. I didn’t think we were very good in our [defensive] zone the last two periods but at the same time, Gibby was there when we made a mistake.”

(on playing with the lead now …)

“For the most part, we don’t sit back and let the other team come back at us. We keep talking as a coaching staff about keeping the foot on the pedal and the gas and going after them and going after them. You see too often prevent defenses prevent you from winning. Our third period success as far as goal differential ratio is pretty good.”

(on when the Kesler-led checking line starts to score …)

“It’s sure an added bonus. They frustrate the other team’s big lines all the time. And then when they can add a couple goals – and Kes got three points – I think that’s really good.”

KEVIN BIEKSA

(On whether they get into games more when the opponent is physical with them …)

“I think in this day and age, you have to be able to play both ways. You have to be able to play the physical way, especially in the West. But then when you have teams like Chicago and Dallas, you have to be able to skate and play a skill game. I think it’s a good sign that we’re able to adapt in different styles of games. After the [Sam] Bennett hit on Corey there, I think our fourth line went out and had a great energy shift. It’s not necessarily always has to be a fight but they went out and threw four or five hits, created some turnovers. Had a good energy shift and then we picked it up from there.”

(on handling the first few minutes of the third period …)

“It’s confident. We’re a confident team. We’re confident in the close score games and in the third period, we feel like we’re in control. We’re just trying to do our jobs. We’re not trying to do too much. We’ve got a lot of guys contributing. All we do is go out, do our job and the next line comes out and follows it.”

(on getting up into contention for first place quickly …)

“Well, I don’t think it’s been a quick process. It took a while. But I think when you have so many changes like we did in the offseason, this team was a different team last year from playing against them. They played a different style. I think this year we’re a good defensive team. That’s an important thing. We’re a really good defensive team. We don’t give up a lot. A lot of teams we play, afterwards their coaches tell us we’re stingy. We give nothing up in the neutral zone. And that’s a good sign because pucks are going to go in the net with the forwards that we have on this team.”

(on his power-play goal …)

“Well, it was probably the third pass I got from Hampus all season so I know I’ve got to make it count. I know I’m probably going to get six passes total this year. It means I’ll probably score on two of them.”

RYAN KESLER

(on handling the first game after the road trip …)

“Thought the coaches did good job in giving us that first day off and letting us spend time with the families and kind of re-generating. I thought we had a good practice yesterday. There is always usually that funk in the first game when you come back from that road trip, but it didn’t seem that way for us.”

(on what has been pivotal toward maintaining their momentum …)

“I think our mindset. We know every game it’s going to be defense first and generate off that. I think that was the pivot point of the year, when we changed that mindset and so far it’s been working.”

POSTGAME NOTES

• Ryan Getzlaf’s eighth goal of the season extended his point streak to eight games.

• Hampus Lindholm had two assists and has four points in his last four games.

• Ryan Kesler went 10-for-15 in the faceoff circle.

• With an assist, Andrew Cogliano has points in three straight games.

• Kevin Bieksa had a team-leading five shots, including his fourth goal.

• Sami Vatanen logged a team-high 22:22 of ice time.

• Nick Ritchie had a team-leading five shots on goal.

• John Gibson made 22 saves to win his second straight start.

• Flames goalie Jonas Hiller made 28 saves. He’s allowed 12 goals on 64 shots in his last three starts against his former team.

• Calgary’s Mark Giordano played 27:44 and scored his career-high 15th goal.

DUCKS RECORD/STANDING

31-19-8 (17-8-4 at home, 14-11-4 on road), second place in Pacific Division

WHAT’S NEXT?

– The Ducks play the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday at Honda Center at 7:30 p.m.