DUCKS MAKE MIGHTY STATEMENT DUCKS 3, VANCOUVER 1.Byline: Brice Nixon Staff Writer ANAHEIM - If this was a playoff preview, 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. will take four more just like it when the postseason starts in less than two weeks. They faced a possible first-round opponent Sunday in the high-scoring, third-place 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. . And they showed what they hope is an indication of their ability to win such a series with a 3-1 victory in front of a sellout crowd at the Pond. But the Ducks preferred not to look at the game as any kind of indicator of playoff success. ``I don't want to read too much into tonight's game,'' center Steve Rucchin Steve Rucchin (born July 4, 1971 Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a centre who currently plays for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. Rucchin played high school hockey for Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London, Ontario. said. ``It's a different scenario. It shows that we can challenge some of the upper-echelon teams in the conference. It's good that we continue to win.'' Petr Sykora's goal early in the third period gave momentum back to the Ducks, and backup goalie Martin Gerber Martin Gerber (born September 3, 1974) is a Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender. He was drafted by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim as their eighth-round pick, #232 overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft and is currently a backup goaltender for the Ottawa Senators. , who made 41 saves, allowed them to hang on. Steve Thomas Steve Thomas may refer to:
The Ducks avoided being caught by eighth-place Edmonton and moved one point ahead of Minnesota into sixth in the Western Conference. |
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