[0] D-LESS DUCKS ARE DRUBBED VANCOUVER 7, DUCKS 2.Byline: Frank Welch
Frank Welch (1835 – 1878) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. Staff Writer ANAHEIM - With their next four games against Colorado, Detroit, Colorado again, and Phoenix, the Mighty Ducks
Mighty Ducks is a half-hour Disney animated series aired on ABC and The Disney Afternoon in the fall of 1996. Twenty-six episodes total were produced. could hardly afford anything but a solid effort during their game Wednesday night with the Vancouver Canucks The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They joined the NHL as an expansion team in 1970. . But what the sparse crowd at The Pond - announced at 11,588 - saw from a suddenly reeling Anaheim team had, to cut to the chase, a dreadful defensive effort that resulted in a 7-2 loss to the Canucks. Anaheim now heads into the teeth of its schedule riding an untimely five-game winless streak (0-3-2). Colorado, Detroit, and Phoenix have a combined 19-9-7-1 record. The Ducks now are 6-6-3-2 with 17 points. The loss to the Canucks (8-3-3-1) certainly left a mark with the team as well as fans. Veteran goalie Guy Hebert Guy Andre Hebert (born January 7, 1967 in Troy, New York) is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. Always a proud American, he used the French pronunciation of his first and last names because it "sounded better." He played for the St. , one of the Ducks most popular players, was booed when he was pulled in favor of Dominic Roussel Dominic Roussel (born February 22, 1970 in Hull, Quebec) is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender. Playing career Roussel played in the NHL, AHL and in Europe during his career. during the middle of the Canucks' four-goal assault in the second period. Hebert was yanked after giving up four goals (two of them of the gift variety) in 17 shots. Vancouver's Andrew Cassels Andrew Cassels (born 23 July, 1969 in Bramalea, Ontario, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Hartford Whalers, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and recorded his first career hat trick in his 757th NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there game. And Cassels made it a memorable trick, too, doing it the natural way with all three goals coming within 16 minutes of each other during the second period. The Ducks looked like they might work their way back into the game twice. However, in each case, the goaltending goal·tend·ing n. 1. Sports The act of protecting a goal, as in hockey and other such sports. 2. Basketball or the defense let them down. Trailing 1-0 in the first period, Anaheim not only successfully killed off a five-minute boarding major penalty to German Titov, it also tied the game while short-handed. Defenseman Vitaly Vishnevski kept a loose puck along the boards inside the blue line thanks to his ability to chase down the puck. Vishenvski fired at the net and Paul Kariya tipped it in for a 1-1 tie nine minutes into the game. Anaheim had the momentum of the penalty kill and its short-handed goal disappear a minute later when Adrian Aucoin sent a 45-foot slap shot past Hebert for a 2-1 Vancouver lead. The Ducks fourth line tried try to get the Ducks back into the game a second time, this time trailing 4-1 midway through the second period. Right wing Ladislav Kohn scored to make it 4-2 with 8:45 left in the second period. Penalties to Vancouver's Matt Cooke and Bryan Helmer 47 seconds apart set up the Ducks on a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:13. However, the team only managed one Kariya shot on the advantage. Cassels completed his natural hat trick natural hat trick n. Sports A hat trick in which three goals are scored in succession by one player in one game. by sending pucks past Roussel with 3:39 and 1:21 left in the second period to make it a 6-2 game. In between Cassels' three second-period goals, Steve Kariya, the younger brother of the Ducks' Paul Kariya, got his first goal of the season. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Vancouver's Steve Kariya (18) moves past the Ducks' Vitaly Vishnevski (6) and Niclas Havelid (28) in the first period Wednesday night. John Hayes/Associated Press |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion