Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks win 4-2

The streak continues and now we are second place in the conference!

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Todd Bertuzzi has rediscovered his scoring touch and his passion. He has linemates Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry to thank for that.

Bertuzzi scored twice, Ryan Getzlaf had three assists, and Anaheim's streaking top line lifted the Ducks to a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Friday.

"I'm having a blast," Bertuzzi said. "I think it's kind of like being 33 and playing 23, when you're playing with those two. They keep you young. Not only on the ice, but in the room."

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Jonas Hiller made several key saves, but after Bertuzzi’s second goal, the Wild’s fate seemed to be sealed. Coach Jacques Lemaire did not even pull his goalie for the extra attacker at the end. The Ducks dads, who continue with the team on their road trip, were ecstatic from their suite at the Xcel Energy Center. Last year the dads were 3-0 and this year they are 2-0. Can they make it a perfect trip on Sunday against the Stars?

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Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks win 4-3 OT

That was an awesome game! If you missed you can watch Hazy and Ahlers give you a review of the victory.

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One streak was snapped and another rolled on, as the Ducks virtually stole one from the Sharks 4-3 in overtime on a Francois Beauchemin goal just 33 seconds into the extra session.

Something had to give when the Sharks took their 10-game road winning streak into Honda Center, a place Anaheim had won five in a row. It looked late in the game like the Sharks would continue that streak, which ranked second all-time in the NHL, when they led 3-2 with less than a minute left in regulation. But after sending goalie J.S. Giguere to the bench for an extra attacker, the Ducks got a great bounce to tie the game 3-3 with just 27.7 seconds left.

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The weather could not have been nicer for the sixth meeting of these two California teams. Last week it was raining and cold. This week it was back to shorts and flip flops. The Sharks played last night against Toronto, coming back to defeat them 3-2 after trailing 2-0 going into the third period. If Toronto had held onto their lead, the Ducks would only be 2 points behind them in the Pacific Division. The Ducks have been resting since Wednesday’s shut out against the same Maple Leafs.

Robo-goalie, Evgeni Nabokov, finally earned a rest, in spite of having started every single game for the Sharks this season. Thomas Greiss got the nod, making his NHL debut against the Ducks. Jean-Sebastien Giguere was the goalie of choice for the Ducks. The points couldn’t matter more. Ducks win, they pull within 2 points of first place in the Pacific Division. Ducks lose, the Sharks pull 6 points away, and they still have three games in hand. Would the Ducks realize this and play like they meant it?

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The difference in the series between the defending Stanley Cup champion Ducks and the Pacific Division-leading Sharks has been razor-thin this season, but with Anaheim holding a definite edge.

With the Ducks trailing by a goal, Doug Weight scored with 28 seconds left in regulation, then defenceman Francois Beauchemin scored 33 seconds into overtime Sunday night to rally Anaheim to a 4-3 victory over San Jose.

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FIRST-PERIOD SUMMARY
Rookie center Torrey Mitchell gave San Jose a 2-1 lead when he scored for the fourth time this season against the Ducks, short-handed, at 15:23. Mitchell converted a three-on-one pass from Mike Grier. The Sharks took the early lead on a power-play strike by Jeremy Roenick at 2:11, but the Ducks got even when Bertuzzi scored his eighth goal of the season, and second in two games, at 8:58. The teams combined for only 12 shots, eight by the Ducks, in the opening 20 minutes.

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Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks Win 5-2

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Desperately looking for more goal-scoring, the Ducks found the net more times in an 8:07 stretch in the second period than they have in each of the last six games.
Travis Moen, Chris Kunitz, Chris Pronger and Corey Perry each tallied in that window, propelling the Ducks to a 4-1 advantage that would eventually develop into a 5-2 rout over Nashville at Honda Center.

It was the fourth straight home win for the Ducks, who extended their win streak versus Nashville at Honda Center to seven games, dating back to March 23, 2004. The win also snapped a three-game winning streak for the Predators.

"It’s nice and hopefully it continues," said Perry of Anaheim's sudden rash of offense. "It was one of those games where the puck bounced and went in for us. We needed a game like that to take the monkey off our back. It’s just those fractions of an inch either way. Finally tonight, we started getting the bounces."

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Four goals in a span of 8:07 in the second period proved to be the difference as the Anaheim Ducks ended the Nashville Predators three-game winning streak with a 5-2 decision on Monday night at the Honda Center.
Marek Zidlicky posted a multi-point (1g-1a) effort in defeat, while J.P. Dumont scored in his fifth straight game to build on a personal best and match a franchise record for longest goal-scoring streak.

The Predators possessed the game’s early momentum, and used it to draw a penalty to Travis Moen just four minutes and change into the game. On the ensuing power play, Nashville’s leading point producer from the blue line, Zidlicky, made the Ducks pay, belting a howitzer from the left point to give the Preds the lead at 4:59. Ville Koistinen set up Zidlicky for the one-time slap shot to pick up the lone assist.

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"Hopefully it continues," Ducks forward Corey Perry said. "It was one of those games where the puck bounced and went in for us. We needed a game like that to take the monkey off our back a little bit."
Travis Moen started the outburst with his second goal of the season and Perry closed it with his team-leading 22nd.
In between were scores by Chris Kunitz and Chris Pronger as the Ducks easily erased a 1-0 deficit after the first period.
Perry, Kunitz and Ryan Getzlaf each had a goal and an assist. Getzlaf, who has four goals in his last five games, extended his point scoring streak to eight games, tying a career high set earlier this season.

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The Predators got the scoring started with a power play goal by Marek Zidlicky at 4:59. Travis Moen was in the box for holding. The Ducks were unable to clear the puck from the zone and Nashville took advantage with a quick pass by Ville Koistinen to Zidlicky, who took the shot from the top of the circle. The Ducks seemed flat and uninspired until the final five minutes of the period. Moen had a great chance late and was sent careening into the net by Ryan Suter after getting his shot off. Shortly thereafter, Doug Weight made a nice cross ice pass in front of the net to Corey Perry, who missed the feed.

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Four different Ducks scored during a furious eight minutes in the second period as the home team cruised to an easy victory agasnst the Nashville Predators Monday night at the Honda Center.

A few moments after Travis Moen was sent to the penalty box for holding at 4:12 in the first period, Nashville defenseman Marek Zidlicky put the Predators up by a goal, firing a slap shot from the top of the left circle. The puck just made it over Jean-Sebastien Giguere’s glove. That was the 46th power-play goal allowed by the Ducks this year. Only Carolina has done worse when skating short-handed, giving up an NHL-worst 48 goals through Monday night.

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Two power-play conversions and another goal on a delayed penalty enabled the Anaheim Ducks to enjoy a rare scoring binge against the Nashville Predators.

Chris Pronger and Corey Perry scored power-play goals 1:10 apart to cap a four-goal spurt in the second period, and the defending Stanley Cup champions beat the Nashville Predators 5-2 Monday night.

"We stuck with the same program that we've been sticking with the last few weeks - getting the puck in deep, cycling it and taking it to the net. Tonight we finally started getting the bounces," Perry said. "We needed a game like that to take the monkey off our back a little bit. I hope it continues."

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Why the Honda Center was pink tonight

The Honda Center exterior was illuminated with pink lights Monday night to promote breast cancer awareness in Orange County.

The center went pink for a couple of hours prior to the Ducks game against Nashville.

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Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks Lose 2-1

That was a pretty boring game until the last 15 minutes or so. The Ducks were stifled by the Canucks defense and a few great stops by Luongo. We did not have too many penalties, but what we did have did affect key moments of the game. So go figure. One note on the videos, I will not be posting any fights because hockeyfights.com does a great job of posting the videos and giving people who are interested in watching them a forum. Well, onto the game report!

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Given the ever-popular NHL schedule that had them on the ice in Vancouver barely 19 1/2 hours after completing a game some 600 miles away in Calgary, the last thing the Ducks needed Sunday night was to face a five-on-three Canucks power play in the first period.

And yet, there they were, with right wing George Parros and defenseman Sean O'Donnell sitting side by side serving interference penalties, and only center Ryan Getzlaf and defensemen Scott Niedermayer and Francois Beauchemin to support backup goaltender Jonas Hiller.

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The Ducks had little time to reflect on their 5-3 loss to Calgary last night as they had to regroup quickly and play against a well rested Vancouver Canucks team. The Canucks have had the Ducks number all season and tonight was no different. The Canucks dictated the play for most of the game.

Daniel Sedin scored on a 5 on 3 power play at 10:28 of the first period. Jonas Hiller, who was giving Jean-Sebastien Giguere the night off, had no chance on the shot. In the second period Matt Cooke made it 2-0 at 4:18 thanks to a great pass from Henrik Sedin. The Ducks were outshot 19 - 11 by the end of the period.

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"Luongo's one of the best goalies in the league for a reason and he gives them a chance to win every night," Getzlaf said after scoring his 14th goal of the campaign.

Anaheim forced Luongo to make only 11 saves after 40 minutes and the Vancouver netminder jokingly said he took his penalty "just to get some action going.

"I was looking at the puck behind the net and my stick was stuck on the post. I couldn't move. The only thing I could have done is drop my stick not to make him fall. I asked for an explanation but didn't get one."

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The Anaheim Ducks may have had visions of a lengthy winning streak with stalwart defenceman Scott Niedermayer back in their lineup, but they'll need a trip to the optometrist now.

After four straight victories, the Stanley Cup-champion Ducks thudded back to dry land on the weekend, losing 5-3 Saturday in Calgary and 2-1 Sunday to the Vancouver Canucks.

"The honeymoon is over," declared Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle following Sunday's defeat. "These games were an indication of how much work we have ahead of us, even with Scott Niedermayer."

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CBC Coverage

But Luongo pulled the game out, sometimes by keeping his pads square, and others by laying his six-foot, three-inch frame across the goal line and challenging the Ducks to shoot it over him.

"[Roberto] can only do so much, but he seemed to make the saves even with people on top of him," said Canucks' captain Markus Naslund. "And that's why he's the best."

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"They've got Ds that are so offensive-minded, that once they jump in the attack and being that second and third wave, it makes it really challenging defensively," said Canucks coach Alain Vigneault. "They were clogging up the neutral zone as good as anybody I've seen and we were able to chip away and stay high percentage. We only gave them two chances in two periods.

"They came on in the third, but that's why we've got the goalie."

That would be Roberto Luongo, who was cruising toward his sixth shutout of the season before Ryan Getzlaf struck from the slot midway through the third period to make it interesting. He quickly converted a neat backhanded, corner-boards feed by Scott Niedermayer to make it 2-1 with 10:17 remaining.

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Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks lose 5-3

Penalties......Oy! We were doing so well until the second half of the game when the Ducks decided to draw a bunch of penalties. Shockingly enough once we took penalties the Flames came back and took a 4-3 lead and then got an empty netter. The one bright spot is that Parros got his first goal of the season on his birthday. Anyway, here are tonight's game day reports and a new thing I am going to try for the rest of the season.

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George Parros's goal

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Jarome Iginla’s second goal of the game, a power-play conversion at 16:34, snapped a third-period tie and sparked the Calgary Flames to a 5-3 victory over the Ducks on Saturday night at the Pengrowth Saddledome.

Iginla’s 27th goal of the season came on a long one-time shot that caromed off the upper body of Ducks defenseman Chris Pronger and past goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere on Calgary’s fifth power-play opportunity of the third period. Kristian Huselius added an empty-net goal at 18:54.

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The Ducks roared back with a couple of tallies and had it not been for a quick Steve Kozari whistle and a timely Matthew Lombardi hook of Drew Miller, the damage would have been worse.

In the five first periods of their five most recent home dates, the Flames have been outscored by a 5-2 margin and, even more tellingly, been outshot 62-34.

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TSN Coverage

After a lacklustre start to the middle frame, the Flames charged back to tie the contest on goals by Iginla and Huselius. Iginla took a cross-ice pass from Conroy and roofed a shot past Giguere before Huselius stole the puck from Scott Niedermayer behind the Anaheim net and snapped a shot to the top corner to tie the game.

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Anaheim went up 2-1 with less than three minutes remaining in the first when Parros converted a shot from the side of the net.

Niedermayer put the Ducks in front 3-1 just 1:15 into the second with a point shot for Anaheim's second power-play goal.

The lethargic Flames finally began to put things together midway through the second after Iginla took a cross-ice feed from centre Craig Conroy and roofed the puck over Giguere at 11:14.

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The Ducks went into Calgary having won their last four games. Calgary was coming off an embarassing 5-3 loss to Vancouver that had Miikka Kiprusoff pulled from goal. Kipper had his chance for redemption this evening, but it didn’t look good early on. In the first period, the Ducks dominated the Flames, even though the Flames scored on their first shot at 1:42. Dustin Boyd’s goal would be the only shot on goal for the majority of the period.

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LA Times Coverage

Name the quickest way to watch a tie score in the third period -- and thus, a four-game winning streak -- evaporate into the Alberta, well, Saddledome, air on Saturday night.
The answer: Four straight power plays, plus part of one that carried over from the second period.

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Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks Win 2-1

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Tonight, the Ducks got a belated birthday present with a 2-1 win over the Oilers in regulation. Miracles still happen! Even though Edmonton scored first at 4:32 of the second period on a deflected shot by Marty Reasoner, the Ducks were able to tie things up later in the period. Ryan Getzlaf was able to steal the puck and sent a great pass to Todd Bertuzzi. Bertuzzi shot the puck back to Corey Perry, who was coming at the net hard and easily put it past an out of position Mathieu Garon.

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Former Oiler Doug Weight scored the go-ahead goal with 3:39 remaining to give the visiting Anaheim Ducks a 2-1 win over Edmonton on Thursday.

Weight, who played for the Oilers from 1993-2001, took a nifty feed off a rush with teammate Bobby Ryan to get in alone, then snapped a quick shot past the left pad of Edmonton goalie Mathieu Garon.

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The Oilers took a 1-0 lead when Marty Reasoner re-directed Tom Gilbert’s point shot past Ducks goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere at 4:32 of the second period, but the Ducks got even on Corey Perry’s team-high 20th goal of the season at 12:38.

Ryan Getzlaf, who had lost the faceoff that led to Reasoner’s goal, led a three-on-two rush that resulted in Perry’s goal. Getzlaf fed on left wing to Todd Bertuzzi, who carried the puck below the goal line and dished in front to Perry, who buried a quick shot just before being flattened by Oilers center Robert Nilsson.

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Edmonton Journal

"The difference between good players and great players is that great players make other players better. He has that ability," Oilers coach Craig MacTavish had said about Niedermayer before this one got underway.

In what was the final regular season meeting between the two teams, the Ducks threw eights shots at Garon in the first 20 minutes while the Oilers generated four of their own - including the shorthanded shot Fernando Pisani rang off the iron.

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Anaheim Ducks News - Ducks win 5-2

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Chris Pronger and his fellow Ducks love to silence the Shark Tank, and Anaheim stopped the boos again Saturday night in another one-sided win.

The way San Jose is playing at home lately, even the Sharks think they deserve the boos more than Anaheim's much-loathed defenseman.

Pronger had a goal and an assist, and Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 27 saves in the Ducks' second win in San Jose in five days, 5-2 over the slumping Sharks.

Todd Bertuzzi, Corey Perry and Chris Kunitz also scored for the Ducks, who won their third straight against one of their most competitive rivals - or at least the Sharks used to be competitive with the defending Stanley Cup champions.

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To say that this game was physical is an understatement. While no fighting majors were assessed, five roughing penalties were given, along with 2 tripping, 2 interference, 2 slashing, and one each for cross-checking, hooking, holding, & elbowing, for a total of 15 minor penalties.

Just 1:03 into the first, the first major scrum broke out, letting both teams and all of the fans know just how this game was going to play out. Corey Perry took a roughing call just seconds after that, and when the doors opened to let him out, he played the puck while still standing in the penalty box. I thought it was a horrible call on the Ref’s part, but apparently it is a penalty.

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In a jovial dressing room after Wednesday's overtime win over Colorado, Ducks defenseman Mathieu Schneider offered an insight into a changing dynamic within.
"You can sense that some of the guys have their swagger back a little bit," Schneider said at the time. "That little cockiness that's important to have in a winning hockey club."
Maybe the big bad Ducks are back after all.

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The Ducks finished their Shark week with another win over their Pacific Division rivals. Coach Randy Carlyle surmised that one of the reasons why they play well against the Sharks is the “fright factor.” They don’t want to get embarrassed. “You have to be competitive against elite level teams.” The Ducks were competitive again. The Sharks were coming off a loss to the Phoenix Coyotes who tied up the game late with a short handed goal and then went on to win in overtime. That performance elicited a very long player only meeting. When Joe Thornton was asked his response to the meeting, he said it was “time for us to shut up and do what we’re paid to do.” The Sharks still weren’t up to the task.

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The sixth in a row might as well have counted for two for the Ducks.

The big question entering Saturday was whether the Ducks could extend their five-game winning streak on San Jose’s home ice in the finale of a three-game mini-series between the teams.

Not only did the Ducks come out with a 5-2 victory, they defused a San Jose team that was coming off perhaps its worst loss this season by withstanding a third-period rally in front of a boisterous crowd of 17,496 at HP Pavilion.

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