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.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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