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Ducks Look Worn Down
by Paul on 05/10/09 at 09:27 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
Did the Anaheim Ducks walk all the way to Detroit for Game 5?
Because they sure looked tired Sunday evening in a 4-1 loss to the Red Wings, a score that didn’t come close to measuring up to the real story on the ice. The 38-17 shot differential was more telling.
This was men against boys. A four-line, fresh-legged Red Wings outfit skating circles around a one-line, ragged Ducks squad trying to come up for air.
“No, for sure, we did not. We did not,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said when asked if he saw enough of a compete level from his squad. “I thought at times we looked like worn down or whatever word you want to use to describe it.”
Worn down works for us, Randy.
added 9:55pm, from Tim Wharnsby of the Globe and Mail,
When an unheralded depth player like Darren Helm can elevate his play to the same stratosphere as his more glorified teammates like Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, the opposition doesn’t have a hope against the Detroit Red Wings.
That reality certainly set in for the Anaheim Ducks last night. They were thoroughly trashed in Detroit’s 4-1 victory to pull ahead in the Stanley Cup conference semi-final 3-2 with Game 6 back in Anaheim Tuesday evening.
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