Pekka Rinne made 28 saves, and Ryan Jones, Jason Arnott, Martin Erat and Vernon Fiddler scored in the Nashville Predators' 4-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night. The Predators have won three in a row and four of their last five. Corey Perry scored twice for Anaheim. Jones opened the scoring at 11:19 of the first period, beating Jean-Sebastien Giguere with a slap shot to the glove side. Perry tied it with 1:44 left in the period, skating across the goalmouth and putting a... Read Full Story
CHICAGO — As with virtually everything involving the Ducks in 2008-09, the season-high, six-game road swing that ended with Tuesday night’s 3-2, overtime loss to the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center provided no real clarity.
What had loomed as a potential death march, began with an almost-predictable defeat to the Detroit Red Wings and included a blowout loss to the Boston Bruins by no means buried the Ducks, but their 3-2-1 performance certainly did not solidify their Stanley Cup... Read Full Story
Yann Danis made 39 saves, and Kyle Okposo and Kurtis McLean scored goals to help the New York Islanders snap an eight-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night. Danis earned his first win of the season, and New York won for the first time in 2009 after an 0-7-1 start. Bobby Ryan scored for Anaheim. Jean-Sebastien Giguere started in net and stopped five shots, and was relieved by Jonas Hiller, who made seven more saves. For the first time in four games... Read Full Story
Markus Naslund scored on a power play and set up Scott Gomez's man-advantage goal in the third period that snapped a tie and lifted the New York Rangers to a 4-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night. The Rangers, playing their first home game following a 3-1-1 trip, hopped back over the New Jersey Devils into first place in the Atlantic Division. New York is now off for a week for the NHL All-Star break. Gomez also had an assist, Fredrik Sjostrom added a short-handed goal in the... Read Full Story
The crowd at the Bell Centre today will roar for one of its own, the hometown kid who made it big in the NHL and brought the Stanley Cup back to Montreal—though only for a visit—in the summer of 2007.
But when the starters are announced for today’s All-Star game and Jean-Sebastien Giguere’s name is called for the West, the Ducks’ goaltender will be looking for someone who is not there, listening for a voice that was silenced too soon.
Giguere’s father, Claude, who bought the second... Read Full Story
Jean-Sebastien Giguere admits it was a tough pill to swallow when he was not given the start on Wednesday night.
Ducks coach Randy Carlyle pulled his veteran goaltender aside before the Phoenix game on Tuesday to tell him that Jonas Hiller would start the next two games. The Ducks normally alternate Giguere and Hiller on back-to-back games, and Wednesday was the first time this season that either started on consecutive nights.
“It’s disappointing,” Giguere said. “But at the same time... Read Full Story
Dan Cleary and Johan Franzen scored 35 seconds apart midway through the third period to rally the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night. Cleary pulled Detroit even with a 30-foot wrist shot that sailed past goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere on the stick side. Franzen scored the go-ahead goal by batting the puck into the net after Pavel Datsyuk took a shot from the left circle and the puck bounced high off Giguere. Cleary's goal was his eighth, and Franzen... Read Full Story
Ducks coach Randy Carlyle didn’t mix words when explaining why he yanked goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere early in the second period of Thursday’s 4-3 loss to the Kings.
The Kings took a 2-0 lead 38 seconds into the second period, putting an end to Giguere’s night.
“I didn’t think he was square to the puck in the first goal and I didn’t think he was square to the puck…the puck, in my mind, should not go in from those angles on the stick side on both goals. So, I made the decision... Read Full Story
Jean-Sebastien Giguere probably would have preferred to spend his Saturday night not facing some of the best players in the NHL one-one-one, including his teammate.
But the Ducks goaltender got a good workout in the Elimination Shootout portion of the skills competition.
Giguere, who will start for the Western Conference in front of his hometown Montreal in Sunday’s All-Star game, gave up the winning goal to Shane Doan of Phoenix in the seventh round of the 36-player shootout... Read Full Story
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 23 (UPI) --
Daniel Sedin's third-period goal, his second score of the game, put Vancouver ahead 4-1 Monday night and the Canucks held on to beat Anaheim 4-3.
Mason Raymond had a goal and an assist and Ryan Kesler scored for the Canucks, who went 3-1 in their four-game homestand and took a one-point lead over second-place Calgary in the Northwest Division.
Curtis Sanford stopped 24 shots and Steve Bernier had two assists for Vancouver.
Bobby Ryan had... Read Full Story
