The Ducks found themselves on the cusp of a .500 points percentage and six points back of the final wild-card berth in the West as they set out on a six-game road trip, the longest of their campaign, which will begin today against the St. Louis Blues and former Ducks mainstay Cam Fowler.

Fowler, the longest-tenured defenseman in Ducks history, was traded to the Blues on Dec. 14, and the Ducks have gone 7-4-1 since his departure.

They have flung a few stones from their slings of late and hit some of the NHL’s goliaths squarely.

“We’ve been beating some really good hockey teams, and it’s great for our group, just knowing that we can hang with those guys, being such a young team,” Ducks center Mason McTavish said. “It’s nice to be playing meaningful games in early January and it’s something we’re all going to take really seriously.”

McTavish scored a power-play goal in a 3-2 overtime loss to Calgary on Tuesday, the Ducks’ second man-advantage marker in three games. Prior to that affair, the Ducks had gone 4-of-46 on the power play.

Forward Alex Killorn, who scored a goal at even strength Tuesday, pointed last month to the absence of Trevor Zegras as a source of listlessness on the power play. Zegras last played Dec. 4, just six minutes of the match against Vegas in which he tore his meniscus. The Ducks had been scoring at a 15.7% clip with Zegras and now had produced a meager 8.7%, the second-worst rate in the NHL between Dec. 2 and Tuesday.

Nevertheless, the Ducks have recently defeated not then-league-leading Winnipeg twice, but the always-formidable Tampa Bay Lightning, ascendant New Jersey Devils and conference champion Edmonton Oilers. A 3-2 loss in Edmonton is their only regulation defeat in their past six games. Coach Greg Cronin said that after losing a squeaker in Edmonton, there was no talk of moral victories and only the expectation that they’d win next time.

“I love the fact that every game we play, we’re in it,” Killorn said. “There haven’t been many games where we’re in the third period, we’re looking up and looking at a score that we can’t come back from. A lot of times we’re right in the mix.”

It was unknown Wednesday morning exactly when Terry would rejoin his teammates, but regardless they’ll confront the Blues today.

Fowler has four points in as many games since joining St. Louis, including two goals on New Year’s Day in the NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, which marked Fowler’s 1000th career game.

Jordan Kyrou and free-agent addition Dylan Holloway pace the Blues in scoring, though their most lethal weapon on a points-per-game basis remained Robert Thomas.