Penguins 3, Ducks 1.

Both Randy Carlyle and Jean-Sebastien Giguere said the Ducks “found a way to lose” their last home game, 4-3 to Detroit on Wednesday.


They just did it again in Pittsburgh, losing 3-1 to a Penguins team that was missing Sidney Crosby and had lost 8 of its last 10 games.


Among the variety of ways the Ducks found to lose this one:


– Allowing two goals to Matt Cooke — Crosby’s usual left wing — on four shots;
– Allowing Hal Gill to score his first goal of the season off a lost faceoff;
– Surviving a late 3-on-1 rush by the Penguins with Jean-Sebastien Giguere pulled for an extra attacker, that the Penguins somehow missed.
It’ll be interesting to see what positives, if any, Randy Carlyle can draw from this one. And if Giguere, who looked shaky at times in stopping 21 of 24 shots. Ryan Getzlaf scored for the Ducks off a pretty sweet Bobby Ryan feed; game highlights will be up here.

AP gamer here.

Game stats here and here.
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J.P. Hoornstra covers the Dodgers, Angels and Major League Baseball for the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Whittier Daily News and Redlands Daily Facts. Before taking the beat in 2012, J.P. covered the NHL for four years. UCLA gave him a degree once upon a time; when he graduated on schedule, he missed getting Arnold Schwarzenegger's autograph on his diploma by five months.

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