DUCK SKID REACHES 4 FLORIDA 5, DUCKS 1.Byline: Greg Christensen Staff Writer ANAHEIM - For all the good it did them, 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. should have taken the last three days off. Instead of putting in hours of work trying to cure their special-teams woes, they could have been enjoying the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, sunshine. Their well intentioned labor certainly seemed in vain on Wednesday night as they gave up two power-play goals and failed to generate any of their own in a 5-1 loss to the Florida Panthers For the animal species by this name, see . The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida suburb of Sunrise. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). before a hostile crowd of 13,024 at the Pond. ``The power play and special teams let us down again,'' Paul Kariya Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya (born October 16, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the St. Louis Blues. Personal life said. ``Overall, we were just horrible tonight.'' Those wondering if the Ducks' work would pay dividends didn't have to wait long. Anaheim easily killed off the first penalty of the game but then was rocked by two long shots by Viktor Kozlov Viktor Nikolayevich Kozlov (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Козлов; born 14 February, 1975 in Togliatti, U.S.S.R. that eluded the normally reliable 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. . The power-play goals were the sixth and seventh Anaheim had allowed in the last three games, all losses. Teemu Selanne wasn't about to blame anybody, but there was no question in the winger's mind what the difference was in the game. ``The first period cost us the game,'' he said. ``Again it was special teams, they scored and we didn't. When you get down 3-0 in this league it's pretty hard to come back.'' Anaheim's season-high fourth consecutive loss sent the Ducks tumbling back to the .500 mark (18-18-4-1) and out of a playoff spot. It also marked the Ducks' second straight embarrassment at the Pond. On Dec. 22, Phoenix defeated the Ducks 8-2. That began a stretch that has seen the Ducks outscored 25-10 en route to losing five of their last six games and drop into ninth place in the Western Conference, one point behind the Edmonton Oilers. Before the tailspin tail·spin n. 1. The rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep, spiral spin. 2. Informal A loss of emotional control sometimes resulting in emotional collapse. , the Ducks had won five of six and put together a season-high four-game winning streak. But that seems like a distant memory now, even to the players. ``We have to be consistent,'' Selanne said. ``We are up-and-down too much. We have to find a way to turn things around.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Anaheim's Matt Cullen, right, and Florida's Raymond Sheppard try to control the puck in action Wednesday. Associated Press |
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