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Ducks Talk After Loss To Atlanta
by Paul on 02/16/09 at 08:17 AM ET
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from Dan Wood of Ducks Blog at the OC Register,
“Everything that you don’t want to happen happened,” said Ducks captain Scott Niedermayer, who finished minus-4. “It’s a frustrating night to be a part of. I know I made my share of mistakes. Where it has to start is I have to be better, and we’ll go from there.”
Marchant and Pronger, whose name has been the subject of much potential-trade speculation, agreed that the pre-game, locker-room mood was seemingly no different than before recent games the Ducks have won. And yet …
“Now we’re back to the same old adage — up and down like a yo-yo with our inconsistent play,” Pronger said. “We have to be more desperate. We have to be a team that is more determined. We have to act like it’s do-or-die, and we’re just not doing that.”
And if the players had no rational explanation for the most ugly loss of the season at a most inopportune time, neither did Coach Randy Carlyle.
“You bang your head against the wall and try to figure out how we could perform to the level we performed,” he said.
added 8:45am, from Helene Elliott of the LA Times,
The Ducks began this season thinking this core group had one more sustained playoff run left in it.
There’s little reason to believe that anymore. First, they’d have to make the playoffs—and at this rate, it’s not going to happen.
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