Game 5: Ducks @ Sharks 10.17.11

Game 5: Ducks vs. Thrashers 10.15.10

OPINION:
This game started out very promising. The Ducks controlled most of the game, and looked sharp. Then, they set out to prove how dangerous the 2 goal lead is. Doing their signature move of trying to protect the lead, they let it go. As disappointing as that was. What looked like a sure 2 points, dwindled to being happy they at least got 1 out of the deal.

POST GAME QUOTES:
"Any time you lose in your own building, it’s disappointing, especially when you have the lead going into the third," said Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf. "We worked pretty hard all game long. We needed to close it out of the end and we didn’t."

"We’re upset with losing the point tonight," said Ducks coach Randy Carlyle. "That is probably as emotional as I have been in losing a shootout because there were mental mistakes that we made that cost us the point, not their effort. They worked and tried. Some nights shootouts go for you, some nights they don’t."

"We just need to keep pushing," Getzlaf said. "We have a big game coming up on Sunday and we know it. We’ll come to work tomorrow like professionals and get ready."

Source for Quotes: ducks.nhl.com

PHOTO OF THE GAME:

ANAHEIM, CA - OCTOBER 15: Toni Lydman #32 of the Anaheim Ducks celebrates his second period goal against the Atlanta Thrashers at Honda Center on October 15, 2010 in Anaheim, California. The Thrashers defeated the Ducks 5-4 in a shootout. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)

Game 5: Ducks at Rangers 10.11.09

Graphic Credit: BuckyHermit @ duckscentral.net

PERIOD 1: 0 - 0
PERIOD 2: 0 - 0
PERIOD 3: 0 - 2




POST GAME QUOTES:
"We didn't have much energy to start the game," Carlyle said. "I thought we played well for 10 or 12 minutes in the second and we started to get through that, but we ran into penalty problems and it took the momentum away from us. We played last night and had an emotional comeback, and it's hard to recapture that."

Source for Quotes: nhl.com

PHOTO OF THE GAME:

Anaheim Ducks' Teemu Selanne(notes), left, of Finland, tries to put the puck past the New York Rangers' Christopher Higgins(notes) and Ranger's goalie Steve Laviquette, hidden, in the second period of their NHL hockey game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. (Photo Credit/Source: sports.yahoo.com

Game 5: Ducks vs. Sharks 10.17.08

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DUCKS WIN 4-0!
Period 1: 1 - 0
Period 2: 2 - 0
Period 3: 4 - 0

Took a little longer than I had hoped to type in "DUCKS WIN" but I finally get to tonight! WOOT! Took away the Sharks undefeated streak to put them at 4-1-0, and notched a win on our belt. Nicely done. Maybe I should mention that it was a SHUT OUT! Giguere stood on his head and boy he showed he wanted that win real bad tonight!

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GAME DAY QUOTES:
DUCKS
“It feels really good,” said Giguere, who had gotten off to a rough start with 13 goals against in three games entering this one. “It was a good night for us. We still have a lot of room for improvement, but this is a good start.”

"It was a big win for us," Pronger said. "It was desperate times, especially with the way we had played the first three games. Tonight, Jiggy held the fort when we ran into penalty trouble there early in the first."

"Right off that goal, we got a lot of life, " Pronger said. "We really started to bear down and cinch things up defensively."

"I’ve been working pretty hard in practice," Giguere said. "Eventually, these things are going to turn around. I believe that you create your own luck and that the bounces are eventually going to go your way. Tonight, the bounces went my way."

"We got our first win and we’re happy with it," Giguere said. "The last game (a 3-2 loss to Edmonton) was a starting point. Now we just have to keep going forward and try to put some good games together."

SHARKS
"They capitalized on their chances. We had a ton of shots and generated a lot of offense, but I don't think we got good quality scoring chances," San Jose defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said.

"They worked real hard and earned their breaks," said San Jose coach Todd McLellan who suffered his first loss as an NHL head coach. "It wasn't that we just mailed it in. We competed pretty hard and it just didn't go our way."

Source for Quotes: ducks.nhl.com and sharks.nhl.com