I just got back from Vegas and after 4 hours of driving on the road, I was looking forward to sitting in a chilled arena enjoying NHL hockey! I had a great time, except for the fact that the Ducks once again failed to pull out a victory at home, giving us a recent home record off one and four.
I will admit that Columbus looks great and Nash was a monster on the ice the entire night, but the Ducks are missing something. Once again something just is not right, and a change has to be made similar to the one made at the deadline last year. The obvious culprit is Jiggy. I was surprised to see him in net the past two nights, exotically after the news reported that he had suffered some sort of injury at practice. I had a feeling that maybe the Ducks were playing him dude to another team wanting to have a look at him. *cough* Burke *cough*. With news coming out of Toronto at the obvious displeasure the Leafs have with Toskala, it seems Jiggy is destined to go to Toronto...it's just a matter of when? I also see that Lucas Sbisa is all but done in the NHL for this season. According to the Ducks website, the team reassigned him to play in the lower level, because according to Randy Carlyle, "there's too much pressure for him to play, considering the position the Ducks are in right now." In the OC register, Scott Niedermeyer goes further and says, "I think [the team] let him down."
The positives from last nights game are the same. Saku Koivu is showing the Left Coasters what we've been missing by having him in the East Coast all those years. He is truly a player that plays with everything he's got!
Lupul is scoring the way he should be with his talent and ability.
The Ducks have the ability to play hockey when they want to. So now it's just trying to figure out how to make them play like that every game.
Well, Toronto comes to town Monday, so it will be interesting to see if maybe Jiggy packs a duffel bag and leafs Anaheim on Air Canada or not.
Go Ducks!
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