Game 20: Ducks vs. Red Wings 11.20.11

POST GAME QUOTES:
"It’s very frustrating and almost the cruel side of sports," said Ducks coach Randy Carlyle. "We made enough mistakes that cost us the hockey game. There is no other way to describe it. We again mounted a comeback in the hockey game, but it just seems that we’re one goal short again."

"It’s tough. It’s a new experience for us here," said Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf. "We have to find a way to dig ourselves out of this thing."

"I thought we came out of the gates okay. We still dug a hole," Getzlaf said. "There is no doubt about that. The score doesn’t lie. At some point during the game, we let ourselves get down and get behind."

"I think things picked up when we started hitting them and playing physical," said Andrew Cogliano. "With a team like that, you have to take the body and stall them. That is how we got turnovers and started making more plays. Other than the first 20-30 minutes, we took the game to them."

"It’s not a matter of what I can say now," Getzlaf said. "We are in a situation where we have to play ourselves out of it and that includes me. I just have to keep playing and we have to lead by example. Our group here, who I have been with for a little while, we have a great core of leaders and we just have to keep pushing."

Source for Quotes & Game Day Notes: ducks.nhl.com

PHOTO OF THE GAME:

Anaheim Ducks Corey Perry, right, celebrates a power-play goal by teammate Teemu Selanne (8) in the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Detroit Red Wings in Anaheim, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.(Photo Credit: Yahoo! Sports)

Game 28: Ducks vs. Red Wings 12.3.10

OPINION:
At the beginning of this game I thought I might have made a wrong turn somewhere on the way to the arena and ended up in Detroit, but apparently, I actually was in Anaheim. There's a few things in hockey that can really piss a fan off such as - the rival fans, being shutout, being outnumbered in your own building- and all of the above applied tonight. Outnumbered being the thing that hurt the most. Not so much for me, but I can't help but get upset about it because I'm sure it doesn't make our players feel very good. I mean, hearing "Let's Go Wings!" being chanted when you're playing at home? It can't feel too good.

And things that feel worse are being shutout, so, once again, the players don't feel too good because they didn't give THEIR fans something to cheer about in THEIR fans home building. Both sides of Duck coin lose tonight. The fans - for being outnumbered. The players - for playing a crummy game and getting shutout. Lose/Lose.

POST GAME QUOTES:
"It is frustrating," said a quiet Corey Perry afterward. "We battled hard tonight, but we just couldn’t find a way to get the puck past Howard. It was just one of those nights where things just didn’t go our way."

"We did a lot of good things in the hockey game," said coach Randy Carlyle. "We controlled a lot of the play. We weren’t able to find a way to score a goal." (side note: Only THE most important part of a game, Randy)

"I didn’t actually see the puck," Hiller said. "I tried to get back to the post and I couldn’t see it. It was a bad turnover in our zone that led to the whole thing. It’s tough to be down that early in the game, especially against a team that plays such solid defense as Detroit does."

"We had a couple of turnovers, a couple of mental lapses there and we’re down 2-0," Perry said. "They got the third one at the end of the period that was heartbreaker."

"If we play as hard as we did tonight in every game this year and be as effective on our forecheck for stretches of the game, we’ll be alright," Carlyle said.

Source for Quotes: ducks.nhl.com

PHOTO OF THE GAME:

Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller, right, of Switzerland, makes a glove-save as Detroit Red Wings left wing Tomas Holmstrom, of Sweden, looks on during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, Dec. 3, 2010.(Photo Credit: Yahoo! Sports)

Game 52: Ducks vs. Red Wings

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Ducks Lose 2 - 1

PERIOD 1: 0 - 1

PERIOD 2: 0 - 2

PERIOD 3: 1 - 2

Ughh the one game I desperately wanted them to win and they come close but no. It just didn't happen. They didn't play a full 60 minutes, when they finally scored they struck some momentum and it was too late at that point. The plus sides to tonight were the Pronger fight.. now that was just awesome. Don't mess with Pronger! And that Getzlaf continues his point streak. On to tomorrow folks..