Sunday, March 21, 2010

Teemu Scores 600

 This will definitely send chills throughout your body this interview in the recap with Scotty and TEEMU

Teemu Selanne a fan favorite not only among Ducks fans but among hockey fans in general. Tonight marked something amazing, something memorable, something spine chilling, spine tingling. Teemu scored his 600th career goal of his NHL career and he scored it at home, a game before the Ducks take the road. The fact that he scored it at home in front of his own fans makes it even more than what it's worth.

The bench clearing made you shake with shivers, as if it were like ice shot down the spine. That smile on Teemu's face just a double shot. The assists came from Scott Niedermayer and Corey Perry. Teemu said when interviewed at the end " This is my happy place!" and the fans at Honda Center went absolutely crazy, he pumped his fist in the air. He gave numerous curtain calls, as the fans "demanded" it. The rest of the game went well. A place where it looked like the Ducks would fall out and Hiller had faltered; the Ducks did not and nor did Hiller show the faltering any further.

Jason Blake would put Anaheim on the board first on a power play then Matt Beleskey scored for his second game in a row. The DUcks would go into the first intermission with a two-goal lead.

Shortly into the second period Craig Anderson would come out too far from his crease, clearly a goaltender who was struggling, but his team also didn't help him as they fell flat on almost every single goal. The Avalanche  were flat footed in offense and defense. Anderson left a wide open net as Niedermayer got the puck from Perry, then passed it to Teemu; who was at the corner of the net. Niedermayer knew exactly what he was doing, as he passed it to Teemu who whipped it into the net. Niedermayer was the first to get to his teammate, then the bench cleared in a blink of an eye. As the fans were were cheering in the background, the team were in a huge hugging fest. It had to be so amazing to be there! Wish I were there but to catch that the moment he scored, even though it was on television was absolutely spine chilling. You just had to watch it live to get that amazing feeling. Some people missed it because they were at work which they're excused from of course. Those at home saying they like Ducks hockey and have the channel available and did not see it just missed a goal of the lifetime.

Teemu is just the 18th player in NHL history to notch 600 goals in an NHL career. He has one more goal to score to tie his childhood hero, Jari Kurri and two more to pass his childhood hero.

Troy Bodie also scored in the second period a beautiful breakaway short handed goal. After Bodie scored his short handed goal. Former Ducks and Colorado Coach Joe Sacco pulled  Anderson and replaced him with young goaltender Peter Budaj who robbed Anaheim players left and right. In the third Darcy Tucker and former Duck Raslan Salei would score to cut the Ducks lead in half.


Ryan Getzlaf would score on the power play the only goal that Budaj allowed. Getlzaf made the game 5-2 and deserving Selanne had the winning goal of the game.

Jonas Hiller played very well in the game despite some minor mental lapses and losing track of the puck to a little over commitment especially where Salei scored. Both goals Hiller allowed were more of the "soft" goals, ones he wanted back. Yet in the end those two goals didn't matter.

Selanne also scored his 500th goal against Colorado in Denver and he scored his 600th goal against Colorado in Anaheim.

Anaheim vs. Colorado: Where History Is Made and will stand forever!

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