GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NHL: ANAHEIM (14-17) at COLUMBUS (13-16)

NHL: ANAHEIM at COLUMBUS

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ANAHEIM 0 3 0 1 --4
COLUMBUS 1 1 1 0 --3
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Columbus, Rostislav Klesla 3 (power play)
(Michael Peca)13:36. Penalties: G Parros, Ana (major fighting), 7:19;
J Shelley, Cob (major fighting), 7:19; T Marchant, Ana (slashing),
10:12; T Bertuzzi, Ana (hooking), 13:25; R Niedermayer, Ana
(roughing), 13:36; S O'Donnell, Ana (roughing), 13:36; R Nash, Cob
(roughing), 13:36; S Hnidy, Ana (roughing), 17:22; J Boll, Cob
(roughing served by C Glencross, boarding), 17:22.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, Anaheim, Corey Perry 16 (power play) (Ryan
Getzlaf)6:49. 3, Columbus, Kris Beech 2 (Nikolai Zherdev), 7:34. 4,
Anaheim, Corey Perry 17 (power play) (Chris Pronger, Mathieu
Schneider)13:40. 5, Anaheim, Samuel Pahlsson 3 (penalty shot), 18:44.
Penalties: T Moen, Ana (hooking), 3:41; A Foote, Cob (interference),
6:27; C Pronger, Ana (hooking), 9:14; D Fritsche, Cob (goalie
interference), 12:20; F Beauchemin, Ana (interference), 15:03; D
Miller, Ana (tripping), 18:24.

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 6, Columbus, Nikolai Zherdev 12 (power play)
(Michael Peca, Rostislav Klesla)3:07. Penalties: C Pronger, Ana
(holding), 1:06; T Marchant, Ana (cross checking), 2:09; M Peca, Cob
(boarding), 7:03; R Nash, Cob (holding stick), 8:57.

OVERTIME -- Scoring: 7, Anaheim, Chris Pronger 4 (power play) (Ryan
Getzlaf, Mathieu Schneider)3:14. Penalties: D Westcott, Cob
(hooking), 2:21.

Shots on goal:
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ANAHEIM 7 12 6 3 --28
COLUMBUS 10 15 9 1 --35
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Power-play Conversions: ANA - 3 of 6, COB - 2 of 9. Goalies : Anaheim,
Jean-Sebastien Giguere (35 shots, 32 saves; record: 12-8-2). Columbus,
Pascal Leclaire (28 shots, 24 saves; record: 10-6-3). A: 11,984.
Referees: Dean Morton, Dean Warren. Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Steve
Miller.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

ANAHEIM COLUMBUS
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
C Perry 2 0 even 3 D Westcott 0 0 even 3
M Schneider 0 2 even 0 C Glencross 0 0 even 3
C Kunitz 0 0 even 2 N Zherdev 1 1 +1 6
R Getzlaf 0 2 even 5 G Brule 0 0 even 0
G Parros 0 0 even 1 M Peca 0 2 even 0
D Miller 0 0 even 0 K Beech 1 0 +1 1
A McDonald 0 0 -1 1 J Chimera 0 0 even 3
S O'Donnell 0 0 even 1 D MacKenzie 0 0 even 0
T Marchant 0 0 even 1 J Boll 0 0 even 1
F Beauchemin 0 0 -1 3 J Shelley 0 0 even 0
C Pronger 1 1 even 2 D Fritsche 0 0 even 2
S Pahlsson 1 0 +1 2 A Foote 0 0 +1 0
T Moen 0 0 even 1 O Tollefsen 0 0 even 0
J DiPenta 0 0 -1 0 R Hainsey 0 0 even 3
T Bertuzzi 0 0 -1 0 R Nash 0 0 +1 3
R Niedermayer 0 0 even 4 J Hejda 0 0 +1 2
S Hnidy 0 0 even 1 S Fedorov 0 0 even 2
G Platt 0 0 -1 1 R Klesla 1 1 even 6
B May HEALTHY M Malhotra KNEE INJURY
B St. Jacques HEALTHY J Lindstrom HEALTHY
K Huskins KNEE INJURY K Russell HEALTHY</div>

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Ticker) -- The Anaheim Ducks have been the mostpenalized team in the league, but on Monday their fortuneschanged for the better.


Corey Perry scored a pair of goals and Chris Pronger tallied thegame-winner late in overtime as the Ducks posted a 4-3 victoryover the Columbus Blue Jackets.


Ryan Getzlaf had two assists and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped32 shots for Anaheim, which won two of three games on its roadtrip.


Anaheim, which entered the game with a league-leading 635penalty minutes, converted a penalty shot and was 3-for-6 on thepower play.


"It was a special-teams game and tonight I think we won thebattle of the special teams," Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said."We scored all of our goals on special teams with three on thepower play and one on the penalty shot."


With 1:46 left in the extra session and the Ducks with a manadvantage, Pronger blasted a shot from the right faceoff circle,which deflected off defenseman Adam Foote into the right sidepast goaltender Pascal Leclaire.


"It was heavy," Pronger said. I think it went off Foote'sstick."


Anaheim snapped a 2-2 tie in the second thanks to its firsttally of the season via the penalty shot. With Columbus on thepower play, Anaheim center Samuel Pahlsson had a break away andwas hooked.


On the ensuing penalty shot, Pahlsson skated in and faked aforehand before firing a backhander that beat Leclaire high onthe stick side with 1:16 remaining.


"It was good, especially when they had the power play," Pahlssonsaid. It was fun, I had a plan and it worked out. You have totry not to think too much, you have to have some idea what to doand I knew what I wanted to do and it worked out fine.

"That's a key save I wish I make," Leclaire said. "I didn't doit today but we came back and got a point."


Columbus tied the game at 3-3 when Nikolai Zherdev scored on a5-on-3 power play with 3:07 left in regulation. Zherdev, whoextended his career-high point streak to six games, knotted thegame by jamming a rebound into an open net from the right slotoff shot by Michael Peca.


In a back-and-forth game, Kris Beech poked a rebound through thepads of Giguere from the crease to make it 2-1 with 7:34 toplay in the second period. That tally came less than a minuteafter Perry helped tie the game at 1-1.


Perry received a feed from Getzlaf on the left side of thecrease and fired a shot over a sprawled out Leclaire.

Columbus grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first as Rostislav Kleslascored a power-play goal off an assist from Peca.


Leclaire stopped 24 shots for the Blue Jackets, who were 2-for-9with the man advantage.


"Tonight we had a lot of good performances," Columbus coach KenHitchcock said. "We made some mistakes and didn't do well on thepower play. We made some mistakes, but we had guys compete ata really high level. It was good to see."

 

NHL: ANAHEIM at COLUMBUS

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NHL
ANAHEIM 4
COLUMBUS 3</div>