Kings@Ducks

Goalies: Giguere/Hiller
The Ducks win Pre-season Finale against the Kings at The Pond.

The Ducks have won their season finale against the Los Angeles Kings. Giguere robbed royalty. He made saves on the likes of Davis Drewiskie and Anze Kopitar. The Ducks penalty kill really needs some work.

Giguere is scored on twice by Ryan Smyth both on power plays and Anze Kopitar. Kopitar scored one of his goals on the power play and his other on the one man advantage, after the Kings pulled Jonathan Bernier who he split the time with starter Erik Ersberg.

Corey Perry breaks the steak of the Ducks not being able to score in the first period with his third goal of the preseason. Giguere allowed four goals against him in tonight's game the most he has let by him this preseason. Giguere has improved from last year stopping more pucks and a improved glove hand. His weakest spot for the past years. His ability to rebound from a not to shabby season is nothing short of amazing. The disappointment and the high high run emotional off ice season. On the end of the season interviews after the Ducks lost to the Red Wings in game 7 Giguere stated he was going to completely forget about hockey, over the Ducks off-season.

It sure has helped him. While he and Hiller are still shaking off rust. Giguere did well this game but may be as every goalie reviewing the game to see what he can better improve on. As said, Giguere robbed royalty tonight he was like a cat quietly stalking around a house, but at times he drew notice to him by letting in back to back goals in a less than two minute span.

"The zone just doesn't come in and out, it's just something that you work and work and work. When it's time to play as well as you can, you just try to bring it."

"Francois [Allaire] gave me confidence by giving me tools to work with, a technique that's very simple to use," said Giguere, who came from Calgary for a second-round draft pick. "Whenever things go wrong or whenever things go right, I always try to stay with the same foundation. You can't change your game plan. If I give (up) two, three goals in the next game in the first period, I'm not going to change the way I play because of that." -J.S. Giguere

Scorers:
1st period:
Anaheim Ducks: Corey Perry Assists: James Wisniewski
Los Angeles Kings: Power Play Goal: Ryan Smyth Assists: Michal Handzus, Teddy Purcell
Anaheim Ducks: Bobby Ryan Assists: Corey Perry, James Wisniewski

2nd period:
Anaheim Ducks: Bobby Ryan Assists: Ryan Getzlaf
Los Angeles Kings: Power Play Goal: Ryan Smyth Assists: Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown

3rd period:
Anaheim Ducks: Power Play goal: Ryan Getzlaf Assists: Bobby Ryan, Scott Niedermayer
Los Angeles Kings: Power Play goal: Anze Kopitar Assists: Ryan Smyth, Dustin Brown
Anaheim Ducks: Joffrey Lupul Assists: Saku Koivu, Teemu Selanne
Los Angeles Kings: (pulled goalie) man advantage: Anze Kopitar Assists: Ryan Smyth, Trevor Lewis