DUCKS PLAY A NEW PART STRUGGLING TEAM GETS TO BE THE ONE DISHING OUT MISERY DUCKS 4, DALLAS 0.Byline: Brice Nixon Staff Writer ANAHEIM - 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. found a team facing similar early-season woes, and because of it they found some relief. Because of a skid in which they had one victory in their past nine games, the Ducks had gone from the top of the Pacific Division to the bottom entering Sunday's game against the Dallas Stars The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to 1993, the team was known as the Minnesota North Stars. . Similarly, Dallas had just one victory in 15 games and was stuck at the bottom of the Pacific standings. On Sunday, it was the Ducks who found a temporary cure for their struggles, earning a 4-0 victory over the Stars in front of 15,831 at the Pond. The Ducks scored three goals in a span of about 3 minutes in the second period, including two power-play goals, and Sergei Fedorov Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov (Russian:Сергей Викторович Фёдоров, Sergey Viktorovich Fyodorov added a short-handed goal A Short-handed Goal is a goal scored in Ice Hockey when a team is outnumbered by their opponents. The reason the team would be outnumbered is due to a penalty incurred, be it a minor or major infraction. in late in the third period. Ducks goaltender 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. stopped all 32 shots he faced for his second shutout Not to be confused with Shootout. In team sports, in American English, a shutout (a clean sheet in soccer) refers to a game in which one team prevents the opposing team from scoring. While possible, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball. of the season. Gerber made his fourth appearance, and second start, in the past four games. Jean-Sebastien Giguere was pulled in the previous two games. ``Everybody knew that they had to come up with a good game because, how things are going lately, everybody knows you can't go on like that,'' Gerber said. The Stars continue to go on like that rather than claim their expected place as one of the Western Conference's top teams. They lost their fourth game in a row and went 0 for 7 on the power play. Both teams entered the season with high expectations, the Ducks as defending Western Conference champions and the Stars having finished last season with the conference's best regular-season record. ``You come here today with two really good teams with lots of expectations, and you're battling and you're both having a hard time getting on a roll going in the right direction,'' Ducks coach Mike Babcock Mike Babcock (born April 29, 1963 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada [1]) is a Canadian hockey head coach and former player. From 2002 to 2005 he was the head coach of the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks, leading the Ducks to their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals said. ``So for us, it's real positive. ``It was a much-needed effort and a much-needed result.'' Brice Nixon, (626) 962-8811 brice.nixon(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Vaclav Prospal, background, celebrates after scoring a goal for the Ducks against Dallas on Sunday in Anaheim. E.J. Flynn/Associated Press |
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