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well finally, after only our 5th win in the month of December, we’re able to maintain a lead in the 3rd and hold on to it…..barely. regarldess, we won and now we can go home with a win in our pockets and 3 out of 4 points on this roadtrip. gotta take the good with the bad i guess.

tonight was another sad display of not only gettting a lead and blowing it, but handing a sure thing over to your opponent. the ducks lead in the 3rd period with a minte and a half left only to let the stars score with their goalie pulled. then in OT penalties proved to be the Ducks down fall when Getz was in the box allowing the stars to score with one minute thirty left in OT. Good going boys. your making this really hard on yourself.

once again, we’re all to look at the game and talk about how great we played; what a valaint effort we put forward because we came back from being donw 3-1….blah blah blah! im tired of saying how they we almost won over and over again. Well we know what almost gets you…..nothing! i know our chances of winning the cup are slim to none right now (especially since only the # 1 and 2 teams only ever win it) but hot damn! we need to get our shit together. we need to start playing smart and hard! even with those statistics, i present to you 2006 when the ducks were in the playoff semi’s against Pronger and the Oilers, and when the #4, 5, and 6 teams beat the top 3 out of the tournament. So you see, it can happen! (except i think the east won that year, and they were a top 3 team)…whatever!!! you see my point! oh well, as that other loser Mike Sciocia would say, lets turn the page!!

Well what can you do? your a team from Orange County, and you’ve won the the Cup just one year ago, playing against a Canadian team, and Canada hasn’t won a cup in over 10 years. Think theres going to be creative officiating? You betcha! In fact a crucial goal in the last minutes of the 3rd period was taken away from the Ducks…and even after coming back with 2 goals, the Ducks took 9 penalties and fell short by one goal. The goal that was waved off. So in the end, the Canucks are able to avenge their playoff lose to us a year back and beat us on home ice. On to the next game….which will be against Calgary. Positive notes about tonight? Hiller is becoming a great goalie; Bobby Ryan was a monster all over the place; Kunitz and Getz were huge; and Scotty is a jedi master!

tonight was a bitter sweet victory for the Ducks! first off they were able to pull off a rare W in an arena that usually is not kind to them. only 3 times out of 17 have the Ducks been able to win there. Hiller stood on his head to make sure the Ducks got the 2 points not only tieing a franchise record 51 shots on goals but also shutting out Edmonton in the shoot out! there was a scary moment when teemu sliced his leg with his own skate though that has me worried! we wont know until monday whats what but so far Carlyle says its no where near as bad as Cory Perry’s last year. we shall see! more later!

In a sad display of more tunrovers than a mcdonalds drive thru, the ducks gave it up to the rangers tonight after battling it out evenly and at times over poweringly. Ducks gave up a crucial turnover and Hiller let one trickle into the net giving the NY’s a win.

Tonight was the first time in a long time that the Ducks and Wild squared off at the Honda Center since they have that pre-game fight during warm ups! It was interesting for sure!! First off after the sad loss to the Guppies the other night, the Ducks looked much better and rested. They took it to the wild and made them pay for what happened up north! It was good to see Morrison and Bobby Ryan scoring goals, as well as the usual suspects! In the end the Ducks won the game and now need to continue their march against the New Yorkers on Tuesday!

the ducks just could not get it together, or through for that matter. Naby and the guppies ran a tight ship preventing the ducks from scoring anything that resembled a puck. Sigh; i hate to think that this series is going to have to be decided in the playoffs somehow. if that were to happen…..i dont know exactly what to expect.