DUCKS TIE IT UP
I could tell you how the game went, but hey let's face it, I can tell a great story of me going through customs, traveling on an MRT in a different country and all the great expressions from all the passengers looking at the 'strange white guy' on the train, but when it comes to hockey, or any other team sport, the best description you are gonna get out of me is the score and who won. So, here is someone that can tell the story better. The only thing that you really need to know is DUCKS WON 4-3 in overtime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Adam Brady
AnaheimDucks.com
DETROIT, Mich. – It looked like a case of déjà vu as brothers Scott and Rob Niedermayer teamed up again to give the Ducks an overtime victory. This one came over Detroit in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, a 4-3 win that evened the series at a game apiece.
For the second time in three games, Scott Niedermayer scored the game-winner in the first extra session. Scott’s wrist shot followed a feed from Rob, and it traveled past a screen from both teammate Travis Moen and Detroit defenseman Chris Chelios to get through goalie Dominik Hasek. The goal came with 5:43 remaining in the first overtime.
Scott and Rob also combined to give the Ducks an overtime victory in their series-clinching Game 5 against Vancouver in the last round. Rob’s hit on Vancouver’s Jannik Hansen knocked the puck loose, setting up Scott’s game-winner. His 11 career overtime goals (including two now in the playoffs) are the most by a defenseman in NHL history.
After a series opener that was a battle of the stifling Anaheim and Detroit defenses, Game 2 was a virtual shootout by comparison. Niedermayer’s clinching goal was one of seven combined by the Ducks and Red Wings.
Detroit won Game 1 of the series 2-1 despite attempting only 19 shots on goal.
In this one the Ducks went up 1-0 after the first 20 minutes, a lead that could have been much greater. Anaheim continued a trend from Game 1 in outshooting Detroit 11-6 and Ryan Getzlaf had two shot attempts clang off goalposts. Less than two minutes into the game he made a great breakaway move on Hasek, but sent it off the left bar. Twelve minutes later, his bad-angle shot from the left corner slipped through Hasek but hit the inside of the right post.
Unable to find the net himself, Getzlaf instead found a way to set up the first Ducks goal. Looking like he might cross behind the net with the puck, Getzlaf instead slid it to a wide open Rob Niedermayer in the crease. Niedermayer’s one-timer was his second goal of the playoffs.
That goal came exactly two minutes after a Detroit penalty, so it didn’t count as a power play goal. Coincidentally, the Ducks second goal of the night also came precisely as a Detroit penalty expired. This one came courtesy of Andy McDonald with 11:40 left in the second period, his fifth of the postseason. Nicklas Lidstrom stole the puck from a charging Corey Perry in the corner, but accidentally tapped it off Hasek. McDonald was right there to bat the loose puck under Hasek’s right leg and barely over the stripe. It didn’t initially look like a goal, though the Ducks close to the play seemed to know it was. An extensive replay review confirmed it, a decision that was met by a round of boos from the Joe Louis Arena crowd.
McDonald’s strike came a little over a minute after Detroit tied the score 1-1 on a shorthanded tally by Kirk Maltby. His wrist shot from the slot bounced off Giguere’s chest and Maltby followed it up himself.
With 3:53 left in the second, Game 1 hero Nicklas Lidstrom struck again to make it 2-2. Lidstrom received a cross-ice pass from Dan Cleary and smartly held it long enough for traffic to clear and allow his wrister to cruise inside the left post.
The Wings took their first lead of the game at 3-2 just 1:03 into the third period. With Detroit on the power play from a Sean O’Donnell roughing minor committed near the end of the second, Pavel Datsyuk one-timed a Robert Lang pass into an open right side of the net.
But Anaheim knotted it back up on another goal that needed a replay to count. Travis Moen took a shot off the faceoff that ticked off Lidstrom and handcuffed Hasek. It was clinging to his thigh as he fell backward over the line.
And after five goals combined in under 15 minutes between the second and third, neither team found the net in the final 14:54 of regulation. That required the fourth overtime in the Ducks’ last six games, of which they have won the last three in a row.
J.S. Giguere continued to shine in sudden death, and has still given up just one overtime goal in his career.
The series swings into Anaheim with Game 3 Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Pacific.
By Adam Brady
AnaheimDucks.com
DETROIT, Mich. – It looked like a case of déjà vu as brothers Scott and Rob Niedermayer teamed up again to give the Ducks an overtime victory. This one came over Detroit in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, a 4-3 win that evened the series at a game apiece.
For the second time in three games, Scott Niedermayer scored the game-winner in the first extra session. Scott’s wrist shot followed a feed from Rob, and it traveled past a screen from both teammate Travis Moen and Detroit defenseman Chris Chelios to get through goalie Dominik Hasek. The goal came with 5:43 remaining in the first overtime.
Scott and Rob also combined to give the Ducks an overtime victory in their series-clinching Game 5 against Vancouver in the last round. Rob’s hit on Vancouver’s Jannik Hansen knocked the puck loose, setting up Scott’s game-winner. His 11 career overtime goals (including two now in the playoffs) are the most by a defenseman in NHL history.
After a series opener that was a battle of the stifling Anaheim and Detroit defenses, Game 2 was a virtual shootout by comparison. Niedermayer’s clinching goal was one of seven combined by the Ducks and Red Wings.
Detroit won Game 1 of the series 2-1 despite attempting only 19 shots on goal.
In this one the Ducks went up 1-0 after the first 20 minutes, a lead that could have been much greater. Anaheim continued a trend from Game 1 in outshooting Detroit 11-6 and Ryan Getzlaf had two shot attempts clang off goalposts. Less than two minutes into the game he made a great breakaway move on Hasek, but sent it off the left bar. Twelve minutes later, his bad-angle shot from the left corner slipped through Hasek but hit the inside of the right post.
Unable to find the net himself, Getzlaf instead found a way to set up the first Ducks goal. Looking like he might cross behind the net with the puck, Getzlaf instead slid it to a wide open Rob Niedermayer in the crease. Niedermayer’s one-timer was his second goal of the playoffs.
That goal came exactly two minutes after a Detroit penalty, so it didn’t count as a power play goal. Coincidentally, the Ducks second goal of the night also came precisely as a Detroit penalty expired. This one came courtesy of Andy McDonald with 11:40 left in the second period, his fifth of the postseason. Nicklas Lidstrom stole the puck from a charging Corey Perry in the corner, but accidentally tapped it off Hasek. McDonald was right there to bat the loose puck under Hasek’s right leg and barely over the stripe. It didn’t initially look like a goal, though the Ducks close to the play seemed to know it was. An extensive replay review confirmed it, a decision that was met by a round of boos from the Joe Louis Arena crowd.
McDonald’s strike came a little over a minute after Detroit tied the score 1-1 on a shorthanded tally by Kirk Maltby. His wrist shot from the slot bounced off Giguere’s chest and Maltby followed it up himself.
With 3:53 left in the second, Game 1 hero Nicklas Lidstrom struck again to make it 2-2. Lidstrom received a cross-ice pass from Dan Cleary and smartly held it long enough for traffic to clear and allow his wrister to cruise inside the left post.
The Wings took their first lead of the game at 3-2 just 1:03 into the third period. With Detroit on the power play from a Sean O’Donnell roughing minor committed near the end of the second, Pavel Datsyuk one-timed a Robert Lang pass into an open right side of the net.
But Anaheim knotted it back up on another goal that needed a replay to count. Travis Moen took a shot off the faceoff that ticked off Lidstrom and handcuffed Hasek. It was clinging to his thigh as he fell backward over the line.
And after five goals combined in under 15 minutes between the second and third, neither team found the net in the final 14:54 of regulation. That required the fourth overtime in the Ducks’ last six games, of which they have won the last three in a row.
J.S. Giguere continued to shine in sudden death, and has still given up just one overtime goal in his career.
The series swings into Anaheim with Game 3 Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Pacific.
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