He was present throughout the Ducks’ 5-4 comeback win over Arizona on Thursday, making several defensive plays and picking off Clayton Keller’s errant pass into the neutral zone to start a counterattack that led to Ondrej Kase’s second-period goal.

The night’s total – One assist and a plus-3 rating over 20 minutes, 46 seconds of action.

“That’s what it’s all about,” Montour said Friday. “I have the confidence in myself to play like that. Continue to have them have trust in me and vice versa. It’s good. When they have confidence in me on the ice, it just makes me play that much better.”