Open Gameday Recap Thread Wild @ Ducks
by Daniel AC on Dec 29, 2009 10:01 PM PST
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DANIEL:
The Ducks won an important game tonight at the Ponda Center by conquering the Minnesota Wild who sit three places ahead of them in the conference standings. This was a four point game for the Ducks, as is every game against a conference opponent for the rest of the season. Bobby Ryan stepped up to fill the offensive void left by Ryan Getzlaf by providing two goals and an assist. Big Sexy added a goal in between Bobby's, and Todd Marchant finished the scoring with a shorthanded empty netter at the end of the game. Jonas Hiller made 29 saves including some clutch ones in the waning minutes of the game.
The Ducks tried hard to give this one away allowing a PP goal with less than 7 minutes to play that pulled the Wild within 1. Still the Ducks found a way to get the win and had a strong defensive performance overall. The Ducks go on the road to play 3 games in 4 nights. Two of those games are against opponents that are directly between the Ducks and a playoff spot. The other is against the conference leading Blackhawks whom the Ducks have no chance of catching. Getzlaf might be back for the game Thursday night against Dallas guaranteeing a little more line juggling by Carlyle.
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hi am new to this blog and never read it before so hi and so glad we finally got back in the win column :)
umm sorry but Danial you may want to fix the name of the place we play it isn’t the (ponda center lol) Honda i believe is what ment. lookin to hopefully get to know this blog a little at least.
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 29, 2009 11:37 PM PST reply actions
it seems like it is a pretty small blog compared to my other main ones. i know this one is newer though and was shocked to see the last
fan post was so long ago wow. is it just still slow cause people are still finding this blog or what?
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 29, 2009 11:41 PM PST up reply actions
Good to have you here, ANGELSFAITH.
We were never a fan participation blog on Blogger, so we still have to build comment and fanpost participation from scratch. But I think there’s currently a ceiling for a Ducks blog in terms of traffic. Battle of California is a well-established blog covering the Ducks, Kings and Sharks, but they see no more than double our traffic numbers. We might try to change that, but if Ducks fans are more comfortable on boards like AllDucks and HFBoards, then I doubt we can drag them out to our site and format.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 30, 2009 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
you dont got to drag no one trust me.
as this blog is here longer and ran well it will be noticed or mentioned to more people therefore causing interest and traffic in a sense. i am sorta a bigger blogger and am a mainstay in the (colts) football blog http://www.stampedeblue.com/ . though i think you were the one in that Q and A that said you didn’t care for football idk. also as you can see my first one i signed up on before i realized the others was the angels blog but cant change my name to a mix now that ive been so long on this name as it would just be wierd lol. so what is the reason you have behind calling it the Ponda center?? just curious.
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 30, 2009 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
Oh, I CARE for football. I grew up walking distance from Candlestick Park. And I would say the reason we call it the Ponda Center is the same reason I just said Candlestick Park. The Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim was a clever name for a bottled water company sponsoring a hockey team named after water fowl, but that place will always be The Pond to me and Daniel. I love Honda as a company and a car maker, but the way stadium sponsorship deals go these days, I have to refuse to call anything by its ‘correct’ name. I mean, its like me asking you if you were going to watch the Bridgestone Winter Classic.
I think there are some fan communities that don’t warm to blogs, and sticking around can’t necessarily fix that. Battle of California has been around for three years and on SBN for about a year, and they only have about double our traffic. We can certainly grow, but I have a feeling there’s a ceiling.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 30, 2009 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
ok thanks for the explination :)
yea mabye your right you know more about the ducks and there community than me. i think an issue could be that many that are ducks fans are not ducks fans by there first and favorite team. dont know if thats true AT ALL but i know the people i blog with from cal and just my friends are ducks fans but they are first fans of other sports. oh i saw on the q and a also your looking for other sites so here is one for stats on any team. its a great site and accurate http://www.hockey-reference.com/
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 30, 2009 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
yeah, hockey is newer out here, so it’s understandable that it would take a backseat.
Thanks for the hockey-reference link. I’ve always enjoyed their expanded +/- table.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 30, 2009 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Battle of California has been around for three years and on SBN for about a year, and they only have about double our traffic. We can certainly grow, but I have a feeling there’s a ceiling.
Truthfully, I think you guys can surpass BoC — sure we’ve been around for ages, but we’re quite niche and family-unfriendly, and SB Nation hasn’t really promoted BoC in many meaningful ways — we’re not Yahoo!-linked and only when pressed in the first-round Sharks-Ducks matchup last spring were we ever mentioned via NHL.com.
Stay away from too much of the Rudy-Kellying and you guys will do fine.
http://www.battleofcali.com/
Not that we plan on changing anything at BoC, mind you — I’m way too happy with silly content, even if it does make us the square peg.
http://www.battleofcali.com/
by Earl Sleek on Dec 30, 2009 2:21 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well, I’m not even sure if our ceiling is as high as BoC right now; we definitely don’t involve the readers as well as you guys. I’m looking into shameless self-promotion as an alternative. Heh heh.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 31, 2009 12:07 AM PST up reply actions
if you need ideas or help of any kind
as i have said im involved with many blogs so mabye i would be able to help find ways to allow the readers to become more involved and such. idk but i could try
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 31, 2009 12:22 AM PST up reply actions
i guess should say want
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 31, 2009 12:25 AM PST up reply actions
I have what can be called a plan. It’s more of a ground game. We’ll see how that goes first. But thanks for the offer, and we may eventually have to call upon your experience.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 31, 2009 9:15 AM PST up reply actions
Actually that’s a very very good question — I hadn’t even looked, but I assumed that they were — I think every other single-team blog shows up frequently on their Yahoo! team page. BoC got excluded because we forgot to focus.
I think it’s because they arrived after Y! Sports had set up 28 teams and then neglected to update for AC? I’m going to write an e-mail.
http://www.battleofcali.com/
Haha. Thanks Earl. I checked that when we first joined up with SBN, but I have neglected it since. I know I was surprised to see GwAP was still on the list of Yahoo blogs since she’s switched to a fiction format. I figured they just didn’t update as a rule.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 31, 2009 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
As you read more posts in this sight, you’ll notice that Ponda Center is always used.
As for the fanposts, we are a little new and that might be the reason. We only started in September.
by Daniel AC on Dec 30, 2009 8:01 AM PST via mobile reply actions
umm ok i didn't realize that that is what you used thanks for letting me know, and yea i new you were new and that explains some of it it will grow just
got to stick with it.
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 30, 2009 9:56 AM PST up reply actions
If the hockey blogosphere were compared to a human body...
…the comments section at hockeyfights.com would be it’s butt-hole. The more I read about/watch this fight, the more I want to buy Nick Boynton a beer. Who took the first run at Sexton? Was it Clutterbuck? Why am I starting to hate the Wild as much as I hate the Stars now?
I was saying boo-urns.
yea i saw that one last night. i hate it also when i see cheep shots or them throwing or pushing reffs out of the way i think
that there should be a penelty in its own it seems
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Dec 30, 2009 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t know if I can hate the Wild a much as I hate the Stars, my stars hate is semi-real. Not as real as my Red Wings hate, but semi – real.
It's a different kind of hate
My hatred for the Red Wings is mostly directed at Red Wing fans and the organization. It’s the whole championship entitlement thing that bothers me (same thing with the Yankees). I just want to see the Red Wings lose hockey games. Like, every hockey game they play.
With the Stars, I hate the team and the players. I would never root for a player to be injured or be unable to play hockey and jeopardize his ability to make a living, but I would definitely root for a Dallas Star to get a tooth knocked out in an on ice scrap.
If Zetterberg and Datsyuk were signing autographs after a game, I would ask them to sign a program. If Steve Ott had a flat tire on the side of the road, I would slow down just enough to spit on his car.
I was saying boo-urns.
by Floyd Gondoli on Dec 30, 2009 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
You wouldn’t root for Steve Ott to lose his ability to make a living? Or in the past, Derian Hatcher and Craig Ludwig? Any guy who’s unapologetically and purposely jeopardized another player’s living is living by the sword in my opinion.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 30, 2009 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
Not by injury, no.
Steve Ott should lose his ability to make a living playing hockey by suspensions/expulsion from the NHL. Not even a shitbag like Ott or Ludwig (HATE that guy! Way to pick one of my favorites, Arthur ;-) )deserves to be wheeled off the ice in a stretcher with a neck injury that will leave him in a wheelchair.
I was saying boo-urns.
by Floyd Gondoli on Dec 30, 2009 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
nope, my hate of the Red Wings is inexplicable and real. I won’t let a Red WIng play for my fantasy team. I agree with the sense of entitlement that new Red Wing fans have. Arthur does his best to remind me that Wings fans who survived the late 70’s and early 80’s deserve their joy. They just seem to always be in the way of Ducks success. Moreover, our meetings have led people to paint us as the light and dark of the NHL. The Wings do everything right and don’t play dirty, while a Duck would just as soon look at you as cut you with his skate. That’s the image that gets portrayed. I mostly hate that Red Wing players are always given a pass on the awful things they do, for example Kronwall’s hit on Havlat last year in the conference finals.
by Daniel AC on Dec 30, 2009 11:04 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well, I don’t know about stretcher and a wheelchair. It doesn’t take much to lose your ability to make a living as a professional athlete. A blown out knee or a detached retina accomplish that fine. If Hatcher blew out his knee after years of taking shots to people’s heads, I wouldn’t bat an eye. No way did that guy’s career deserve to die of natural causes.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Dec 31, 2009 12:12 AM PST up reply actions
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