Cam Fowler did so and his Ducks teammates followed suit.
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The Wild look to stay hot on the powerplay having scored a man advantage goal in each of the first 4 games.
The Minnesota Wild fell to the Ducks 4-1 Sunday night in Anaheim, in what was the Ducks’ first win of the season.
The Ducks (1-3-1) were one of three winless teams left in the National Hockey League entering Sunday.
It harkens back to the 2003 Western Conference Final where the Mighty Ducks held tonight’s opponent to just one goal in a four game sweep.
Everything changed at 10:08 of the first period. Rakell became the first forward to score for Anaheim this season when he deflected Lindholm’s slap shot past goalie Devan Dubnyk. And with that, the Ducks defenseman had a sigh of relief. A team spokesman said Andersen was not ill or injured.
“Credit for our guys for sticking with it. We were able to sneak a few by him today so that was good”. Before Fowler’s goal, the Ducks scored just once this season, in the second game of the season.
For a few reason, the Ducks have had great success against the Wild recently.
Anton Khudobin made 34 saves in his second start of the season as the Ducks earned their first win. It had always been planned, Boudreau said, with the idea of not letting the veteran continue to sit on a forgettable debut Wednesday against Arizona.
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St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott made 27 saves for his fourth win of the young season, while Ondrej Pavelec stopped 37 shots in the Winnipeg net. He went the distance against the Wild in overcoming a few early hairy moments and improving as the game went on. “… I think the guys were feeling it, and to me that’s the mental toughness that I appreciate right there, ” Wild coach Mike Yeo told reporters. All it takes is one shot.
