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Petteri Nokelainen probably summed it up best.
"I play with whoever they put me out to play with," he said, "Right now it looks like we're playing with everybody right now, especially when we're two guys short in the middle."
Those two guys -- centers Saku Koivu and Ryan Carter -- didn't take part in a full practice Tuesday with their teammates. Koivu at least attempted to start, after skating for a half-hour on his own, but lasted about 15 minutes before walking off the ice. Carter, who bruised his foot in Columbus when it absorbed a teammate's shot in practice, didn't skate at all.
Continue reading The latest on the Ducks' injuries, and how they're affecting the lineup..
The Penguins were missing their top four defensemen. But the Ducks were missing their energy.
A four-game road trip melted into oblivion Monday at the Igloo, where the defending Stanley Cup champions held the Ducks to two goals despite missing injured blueliners Sergei Gonchar, Alex Goligoski, Kris Letang and Brooks Orpik. Marc-Andre Fleury made 23 saves, and his goal frame made another when Scott Niedermayer shot into a wide-open net during the second period.
Todd Marchant scored in the first period to pull the Ducks within 2-1, and picked up the secondary assist on Teemu Selanne's third-period goal that made it 4-2. But clearly, the road-weary Ducks were playing catchup the entire night, taking some lazy penalties that translated into seven Penguins power plays.
Corey Perry notched the primary assist on Marchant's goal, extending his scoring streak to a league-high 12 games. Linemate Ryan Getzlaf wasn't as lucky, seeing his point streak end at 11 games, his franchise-record assist streak end at 10, and losing five minutes of ice time in the third period when he fought 38-year-old Bill Guerin at center ice.
Guerin and Matt Cooke scored in the first period for the Penguins, and Jordan Staal added a short-handed goal at 4:09 of the second that may have permanently deflated the Ducks. Martin Skoula and Cooke scored in the third period, the latter coming into an empty net with 12.9 seconds remaining.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 21 of 25 shots for the 6-10-3 Ducks, who return home to play the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday.
Kyle Calder, playing his first NHL game this season, was a minus-1 in 9:33 for the Ducks while alternating line partners.
Knowing that statistics can be used to prove anything, here are a few to chew on: Todd Marchant's goal against the Nashville Predators on Thursday was his first of the season in his 14th game.
Marchant was the subject of a recent trade rumor which, reading into the statistics, would make sense on paper if the Ducks desire more offense. As Marchant himself said Thursday, "if this team was relying on me to score goals, we'd be in big trouble."
But Marchant, a 17-year veteran, threw out another statistic Thursday to explain why he isn't worried about his future.
Continue reading Todd Marchant addresses trade rumor..
For the first time in a long time, the spotlight on the Ducks was large enough to accommodate most of the team.
Teemu Selanne scored twice, passing up Jean Beliveau for sole possession of 38th place on the NHL's all-time points list (1,220). His first-period power-play goal, the 211th of his career, also eclipsed Keith Tkachuk for 10th place on the all-time power-play goals list.
Todd Marchant added his first goal of the season, Bobby Ryan scored his fifth, and Jonas Hiller stopped all 40 shots he faced for the fifth shutout of his career.
The Ducks recalled Matt Beleskey from AHL San Antonio today after placing forward Ryan Carter (foot) on injured reserve. Beleskey practiced at Honda Center with teammates this morning, skating at left wing with Petteri Nokelainen at center and Todd Marchant at right wing.
Carter's foot was struck by a puck Wednesday and he did not practice Friday. Head coach Randy Carlyle said that an MRI revealed a bone bruise, but no break.
Beleskey appeared in two games with the Ducks last season, going scoreless while averaging 11:09 time on ice. In eight games for San Antonio this season, he had one goal, three points and 15 penalty minutes.
"We don't bring a player in without saying we're going to play him. We're going to pay him," Carlyle said of Beleskey. "We expect the transition to be less than what he experienced last time around, for sure."
A former fourth-round draft pick (2006), Beleskey made his NHL debut with the Ducks on Jan. 9 against Tampa Bay, recording a plus-1 rating in just under 14 minutes of ice time. He spent the rest of the season with AHL Iowa, earning 11 goals and 35 points, with 58 penalty minutes, in 58 games.
"I've had a lot of time to learn the system," Beleskey said. "I'm starting to get used to it."
The the 21-year-old he skated with both Marchant and Nokelainen in preseason games this year. Beleskey described his game as that of a "hard-nosed, hard-working forward who's going to bang, and if I have to, go into the corners and muck it up."
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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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