Kings won the Ducks last thursday, but tomorrow, it's a new night. Ducks must be hungry for the 2 points, especially when their comeback was spoiled by Kings and Dustin Brown on the final minutes of the 3rd period (Anze Kopitar sealed the deal on the Powerplay, after Ryan Getzlaf got called on tripping).
Anyhow, the way i see this, Ducks really have to get their legs moving from the get go, and they must keep moving their legs the full 60 minutes. Something they've had hard time to do all season long. Also, they must tone down the defensive zone turnovers if they want to win (I'm looking at you, Whitney & Wisniewski).
There was not whole lot of postives on Ducks's game against LA the last time, but one thing however, stood out: There weren't whole lot of negatives either. Hiller played well, of course when a goalie allows six goals, usually goalie hasn't played on top of his game. But still, Hiller played well and lot of the goals weren't really his fault, as they were defensive mistakes. Ducks defencemen inability to clear the net was shown once again this season, and you got a wonder what GM Bob Murray is up to in defence department, because team that has this big of D problem and is desperately trying to make the playoffs, something has to happen. Scott Niedermayer maybe isn't the same defenceman he was a few years ago but even if he was, we'd still have the same problem and in my opinion, it need's to be fixed sooner rather than later.
RPG (Ryan-Getzlaf-Perry) line was put back together on the last game, but despite the dominance along the boards , they failed to generate great offensive chances and thus Coach Carlyle put Ryan in second line with the Wonder Finns and but Rookie Matt Beleskey back together with Getzlaf & Perry. Beleskey scored a goal in that line and i really hope that Carlyle is going to play that line again in tomorrow. Besides, Bobby has shown already he can carry a line whoever the other guys are. And now that Selanne is starting to, albeit slowly, get back in shape we can hope that the Powerplay is going get better and of course more effective. Even though Ducks already tried it earlier in the season and it didn't quite work out back then, i'm thinking they could move Ryan Getzlaf back to the point and let Niedermayer be the rover he always is and put Selanne, Ryan and on the walls and Perry in front of the net.
Also, Vesa Toskala has worked his work-visa problem and has joined the Ducks team and is going to be the back-up to Jonas Hiller in tomorrow's game. So, welcome to the Ducks, Vesa! :)
Beleskey - Getzlaf - Perry
Ryan - Koivu - Selanne
Bodie - Chipchura - Marchant
Blake - Carter - Nokelainen
Niedermayer - Wisniewski
Whitney - Brookbank
Eminger - Festerling
(Those probably ain't going to be lines that the Ducks Head Coach Randy Carlyle plans to use, that's more of a personal thinking from my end. I will post the more probable line-up later)
Also, some stats to tomorrow's game:
Los Angeles Kings (36-19-3) @ Anaheim Ducks (27-24-7)
Goals/Game: 2.93 - 2.72
Goals Against/Game: 2.69 - 3.02
PP%: 19.5 - 18.9
PK%: 80.4 - 79.8
GO DUCKS!
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