The Anaheim Ducks are piling up points like squirrels storing nuts for the winter.
On Friday night in Columbus, Ryan Miller made 26 saves to help the Ducks push their record to 4-1-0 with a 2-1 win over the Blue Jackets.
“Win it any way you can,” Miller said. “We’re still getting comfortable in certain positions with some young guys, guys are slotting into different spots, rotating almost. There’s going to be flow eventually.”
Pierre-Luc Dubois scored the only goal on Miller.
“We had opportunities to score and we didn’t,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said. “I don’t think we were sharp in a lot of our plays. We were sloppy in our execution. We were slow tonight.”
Miller made a stick save on Seth Jones in the third period with his tick that preserved the margin of victory.
“There’s not many situations that you can throw at him that he hasn’t been through,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. “He’s calm back there. He’s almost like a second coach back there sometimes.”
Jakob Silfverberg and Cam Fowler had the Anaheim strikes i the win.
“He (Miller) played great, kept us in the hockey game,” Fowler said. “That’s what you expect out of a guy like him who’s been around a long time. He prepares himself, works hard, does the little extra things in practice to make sure he’s prepared for the game, and I was happy to see his hard work pay off.”
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Joonas Korpisalo made 21 saves in the loss.
“In the first period, we were a little slow trying to get the puck up the ice. The latter half of the second and the third period, we were very quick. Being down a goal, you’re throwing everything at them,” Jones said after the loss.
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