The view from Anaheim

The Kings and Anaheim Ducks share a region and a common woe: scoring goals. The Ducks are now 1-5-3 in their last nine games and have topped the two-goal mark in only two of those games. Two regulation goals would have been enough for either team last night, but the second goal never came. Here’s how The Orange County Register covered last night’s game, followed by some additional postgame quotes from the Ducks’ locker room…

Goal-starved Ducks lose to Kings, 2-1

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COACH RANDY CARLYLE
(on the game…) “The power-play advantage was six to one (in favor of the Kings) at one point in the hockey game, and usually when that happens you are going to be on the receiving end of the shot clock. We didn’t really get our game going until the last half of the hockey game, then we played a lot more of the type of game that’s going to be required.”

(on getting one point from the game…) “We got a point and we worked hard. It’s one shot away in a shootout to be a difference maker and right now those things aren’t going our way. But if we work as hard as we did in this hockey game, in the last half of it specifically, then there is a light at the end of the tunnel for our group.”

BOBBY RYAN
(on the game…) “It’s tough to lose a point in that kind of fashion, but I thought the boys played a hard game. We had so many chances there and Quickie [Jonathan Quick] kept standing on his head and really sucking pucks in, not allowing any kind of rebounds in and chances for us all game.”

(on not getting frustrated…) “I think you have to celebrate the little victories. I felt we did a good job taking pucks to the net. Especially in the third, we really turned our game on and got going in the right direction. We moved pucks to the net and we moved bodies to the net a lot better. We were rewarded for it with, I don’t know if you want to call it a flukey goal, but a goal that probably is going to be saved most of the time.”