The Fifth Liners

Alex's question this week is " Anaheim are always a threat but have fallen short in recent years. What do they have to do in order to bring another cup home?" Since bringing home their first and only cup at the end of the 06/07 season, Ducks fans have been eager to lift the cup again, especially with close neighbours the LA Kings winning it so recently. A lot of the cup winning team have moved on, Chris Kunitz found further success with the Penguins, Rob and Scott Niedermayer have both retired from playing and Chris Pronger is currently signed to the Flyers. Although to be fair, he spent most of that winning postseason suspended for repeatedly elbowing people. The one thing that the Ducks don't have is consistency. Although the team has made appearances in five of the last seven postseasons, their performances have been variable at best. Offensively the team has been good. Scoring goals has never been an issue and Viktor Fasth and Jonas Hiller ...

Tense times continue for Detroit Red Wings fans as Henrik Zetterberg's overtime goal means that the series will go to a seventh game decider. Zetterberg has performed well in the series so far but hadn't scored in the previous five games. The Wing's captain obviously wasn't happy with that and netted twice in last night's game at the Joe. The Anaheim Ducks the other hand put in a mediocre performance according to coach Bruce Boudreau who said that his team didn't have the hunger to win the game and started nervously. Allowing Detroit to capitalise. Game seven of the series is tomorrow.