Bath Time

In response to Ahler's question about if he's exhausted:

"Yeah. I'm exhausted. I cant wait to get home and take a bath"-Jonas Hiller

If you've watched him when he came here and now or more over listened to him. His English has rapidly improved.Hiller is fluent in three different languages. German, French and English.

Hassen Sie Jonas Hiller? (Do you hate Jonas Hiller)

Meine: Nein. Ich hasse Jonas Hiller nicht. (Me: No. I don't hate Jonas Hiller)

(My German isn't strong so I had to use a translator thing to be sure I was correct. Hoping to become fluent in Deutsch though.)

Jonas Hiller has been hot lately. He's been helping the Ducks win games, last night Hiller played in Nashville, where the Ducks also won. Less than 24 hours later and after the plane trip to Chicago he was between the pipes where he was absolutely stellar in the 3-1 win over the hottest team in the league; the Blackhawks lost their previous game to the Minnesota Wild in the shootout.

The Ducks are currently on their longest win streak of the season with four wins. Last week, Anaheim would see both of these teams on the road. Nashville and Chicago, the exact same days. The difference was, the Ducks won both of these games, and Hiller played back to back instead of alternating goaltenders the biggest difference was the return of Teemu who did not play against these two teams last Saturday and Sunday. Hiller played in both games and he won the both of them. This was one of the best games Hiller has had all year. A season high of 42 stops but his shutout was spoiled when Duncan Keith got it past a screen, a shot that was impossible for him to read.
Finally, the Ducks are finally putting heart and soul into the game; General Manager Bob Murray and Coach Randy Carlyle had some talking. Maybe Murray should of talked earlier in the season because after his speech we look like a much better composed team.

In the third period, the Hawks were out shooting the Ducks by 17-2. During the game. Hiller stone walled Jonathan Toews on a wrap around and the Patrick Kane, who tried to stuff it in. Hiller also stopped Kane's point streak who had the longest streak in the league. Hiller had pounced on Kane's shot where he left a wide open net.

Stone-walling and winning, this is exactly what this game was for Jonas Hiller, what was more impressive was this was a back to back game. He completely outdid his performance against Nashville. He was absolutely exhausted but he really kept to himself and he was focused. He's fast, he's very athletic and between him and Giguere, there is a different style of play. Hiller is more athletic than Giguere; but Giguere knows this, he has even stated he isn't very athletic and more over, he was actually surprised he made it into professional sports as he said, he is the least athletic in his family.

It looks as if the Goalie Situation is leaning towards Hiller but there is nothing much to say about this right now it seems like management is leaning towards Hiller. Hiller's nickname "Hiller the Killer" kind of got lost in a crowd. It was like walking amongst a huge crowd of people, jam packed at Disneyland, but while pushing through people he lost the person hanging on to him. Only to find it again after frantically but also more calmly as he kept on searching. He has found it and he has kept it with him.

The reason is there is not much to say about this is because, who the hell knows what management is really doing behind closed doors and how they're handling this situation, lets not get too far and deep into this at least right now.

As though, Hiller has been absolutely stellar in his past performances, and lets say in his last four starts in which he's won tonight's victory against Chicago has been his best performance; if not his best this season.


Antti Niemi opposed Hiller and he allowed only two goals, while the final score was 3-1 the third goal came from Teemu Selanne on an empty netter. The goals were scored by Corey Perry, Saku Koivu, and Teemu Selanne Perry had pushed Brent Seabrook off of the puck and put it past Niemi on the power play . Bobby Ryan would get the touched puck by Dan Sexton and Koivu was right in front of the net between two Hawks players. Bobby knew exactly what his linemate was going to do, with the excellent read he sent it over to Koivu who tapped it in past the stunned Chicago goaltender.

Hiller out performed Niemi, but Niemi's game wasn't too bad. Anaheim played a very good and solid game, there were a few mistakes but a team cannot play mistake free all 60 minutes of the game. Ryan Whitney banked the puck off of the post and tapped himself in the head with his stick he could of put the Ducks ahead by 3 if he had the goal. Niemi had kept Matt Beleksey off of the board. Who had a very good play and beautifully wristed it but was ultimately stone walled by that damn Niemi


Now, with this win Hiller can go home and do what he wants and that is BATH TIME! Hiller deserves it. He wants to go home and take a bath and he can do just that. As the Ducks will host the Bruins their next game.