In St Paul Tuesday night, the Anaheim Ducks handed the Minnesota Wild a rare loss these days in a 1-0 victory.
John Gibson picked up the shutout in St Paul. – file photo by Brent Clark
John Gibson made 37 saves to get the shutout.
“I just battled. We knew it was going to be a hard game, and [we] just hung on,” Gibson said. “If you worry about the end result it’s not going to get you very far. We knew it was a big game. It wasn’t the road trip we wanted and we knew if we could end on a good note it would kind of build confidence and salvage the trip.”
Joseph Cramarossa cored the ‘s only goal with less than five minutes gone in the first period.
“I thought we stood around for the first two periods of that hockey game doing nothing,” Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf said. “In saying that, we played a lot of good hockey on this road trip and didn’t get results, so tonight I felt we deserved it.
“It was an ugly hockey game but we’ll take it and go home.”
The finished their six-game roadie with a 2-3-1 record.
“We won the hockey game with the goaltending and an unlikely scorer in Cramarossa. You never think one goal’s going to carry you to the finish but it was 1-0 and we’ll take it and move on,” Anaheim head coach Randy Carlyle said after the win.
Devan Dubnyk made 22 saves in the loss as the Wild dropped to 37-13-6.
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“You’re never happy when you lose,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We’re not happy. It was a valiant effort by our guys, but at the same time we didn’t succeed in what we were trying to do.”
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