BLUES POUND DUCKS ST. LOUIS 5, DUCKS 1.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 - Believe it or not, there was something positive to be found after the Mighty Ducks' lackluster 5-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Sunday afternoon at The Pond: Anaheim still has 80 NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there games left to fix the problems. And yes, the team has several of them. ``They (the Blues) take pride in outworking people - we're still learning,'' Anaheim coach Craig Hartsburg Craig Hartsburg (born June 29, 1959 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played ten seasons with the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League from 1979-80 until 1988-89. said, issuing a challenge, of sorts, to his hockey club. ``I am very disappointed in the way we played. . . . very disappointed. . . . And we have to fix it.'' From a public-relations standpoint, Anaheim (1-1-0-0) couldn't have picked a worse day to come up with a stinker of an effort. After failing to sell out a home opener for the first time in its eight-year franchise history Friday (654 short of a sellout), Anaheim, playing its 271st home game, drew an all-time low crowd of 11,134 on Sunday. The previous low was the 12,047 who saw the Ducks lose to Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. on Dec. 1, 1999. ``It has no effect on how we play,'' Anaheim defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky Oleg Tverdovsky (born May 18, 1976 in Donetsk, U.S.S.R. -- now Ukraine) is a professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Ufa Salavat Yulayev of the Russian Super League. said. ``But they didn't have any support (from the team) either.'' The quiet gathering Sunday became even more silent when St. Louis all but put the game on ice with three second-period goals. And the Blues (2-1-0-0), once they had a cushion, showed exactly why they posted the NHL's best regular-season record (114 points) and the league's best defense (allowing just two goals per game) last season. Anaheim 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. had little or no chance at stopping goals by Ladislav Nagy Ladislav Nagy (born June 1, 1979 in Šaca, Slovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey left wing currently with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. Playing career He played with the St. (2:39), Scott Young (his fourth in three games at 5:04), and Jochen Hecht (15:26). Hebert was defenseless as well in preventing Pierre Turgeon's third- period goal, but Chris Pronger's slapper that was the final tally with 2:24 left to play was, perhaps, the only bad goal Hebert has allowed in two games. ``Maybe this was a perfect time for a game like this,'' Hartsburg said. ``Instead of living a fantasy and talking about how good we are, we now have to go out and work and get our nose dirty.'' Anaheim center German Titov, the Ducks top free-agent signing during the offseason, scored a meaningless goal with 3:27 to play to cut the deficit to 4-1. |
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