Ducks lose to Captials but Giguere impresses

J.S. Giguere had a start last night against the Eastern Conference Washington Captials; the entire fanbase look as if it was just a one man show as at least 90% of the fans were wearing an Alexander Ovechkin #8 jersey.

Giguere had his first start in three weeks and he more or less wore down the term "cold goalie" as he had stopped 44 shots allowing 5 goals. The shots on goal (49) were the most the Ducks allowed within the season; and also it made itself into the franchise record list. Hiller was given a rare rest after the loss to Atlanta the night before. Ovechkin scored one goal on Giguere;  where there was no defense and Giguere had left a wide open net. He [Giguere] was swimming the first 5 minutes of the game but had his composure after those first five. Ovechkin scored about 36 seconds into the game. Steve Morissonn, Mike Knuble, and Alex Semin had two goals for the Capitals. Dan Sexton had the Ducks lone goal for the Ducks as the Ducks lost 5-1. In the third, Giguere more or less doesn't do too well as his dehydration medical issue may also be a factor. Giguere is put onto fluids after every game he plays and there was absolutely no doubt he had the saline packs "secured" to his body after a tough and busy game.

Giguere is trying to show that he still has it and  it looks as if he does still have it. We saw Giguere last night despite his normal struggles, he was absolutely amazing in a game where he was put in against the hottest offensive team in the league and the fact he had sat on the bench for three weeks; the only time he had anything shot against him was when he was in practice; otherwise his teammate and a very good friend of his [Hiller] got all the playing time ahead of him. The Ducks had troubles clearing the zone, and also the Capitals got away with some obvious calls. Ducks got away with some but the Capitals especially the shoulder to Bobby Ryan's face which had him fall to all fours favoring his face by the Ducks bench; before he quickly got up as the game was still going on. Ovechkin was the one who hit him in the face as he had moved up his shoulder to face level instead of down, where it would of hit Bobby's chest. Todd Marchant was also high sticked in the third and Matt Beleskey had an obvious interference call by Eric Fehr but Fehr was not called; Beleskey got frustrated and slashed Fehr's stick which he was called for with the ol retaliation.

It is unclear if Giguere will start against Tampa Bay on Friday but he does deserve another chance; as the Ducks didn't give him too much of a chance and Giguere played extremely well. 44 stops was one of his career highs and definitely his highest for the entire season he's played. And we raise our glasses to both the Ducks goalies! Jonas Hiller and J.S. Giguere great job boys! The Ducks as a team has also been better than the past games. Raise your glass to them boys too!