Last Is Best for Ducks in Chicago Stadium : Hockey: They bid adieu to venerable building for the regular season with a 6-2 victory over Blackhawks.

“Remember the Roar,” is the slogan for Chicago Stadium’s final season, and the Mighty Ducks said goodby Thursday by quieting the crowd in the old building with a 6-2 victory over the Blackhawks.

“This was probably the best game our team has played all year,” Coach Ron Wilson said. “To win, 6-2, in Chicago Stadium is an achievement, whether you’re the Montreal Canadiens, the Vancouver Canucks or the Mighty Ducks.”

The Ducks were beaten here last month, 2-0, by Ed Belfour, who twice has won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s best goaltender. But they exacted their revenge Thursday.

After he allowed three goals on four shots in the second period, the roar of a crowd of 17,460 was reduced to sarcastic cheers when he stopped a pass.

Bob Corkum, who recently began centering the first line with wingers Garry Valk and Peter Douris, led the way for the Ducks with a four-point night. Corkum, who tied Terry Yake as the Ducks’ leading scorer with 29 points, scored his 12th and 13th goals and assisted on two others.

The Blackhawks tried to play physical hockey, and the Ducks outdid them. Chicago’s Cam Russell and Tony Horacek earned game misconducts for instigating fights, and Duck enforcers Todd Ewen and Stu Grimson played their roles in a game that had six fighting and four roughing penalties.

The only thing the Ducks weren’t acknowledging after the victory is that they will never play here again. With the stadium scheduled to close after the season, the Ducks will say only that this is their last regular-season game.

“I’m hoping we play here in the playoffs,” said captain Troy Loney. “We talked about that today. The way things are shaping up, we could end up playing against them. That would feel great.”

The Ducks are one point out of eighth place, the final Western Conference playoff spot.

“If we can just manage a .500 record at home, we can put ourselves in the playoffs with a little luck,” Wilson said.

The Ducks are 11-12 on the road, but only 5-12-2 in home games.

At the halfway point of the season, they are 16-24-2, on a pace to beat the first-year expansion team record of 31 victories in 74-game seasons by the Philadelphia Flyers and the Kings in 1967-68.

The Ducks trailed, 2-1, after a period. But they stormed back in the second when Belfour faltered. They tied the score, 2-2, only 19 seconds into a power play on Tim Sweeney’s shot from the middle of the right circle at 9:32.

With the teams playing four-on-four, Valk beat Belfour cleanly with a slap shot to the glove side at 14:37, with Belfour screened on the play. Less than two minutes later, Corkum scored short-handed for his second goal of the game, letting loose with a slap shot after crossing the blue line.

Defensemen Bill Houlder and Sean Hill added goals in the third.

“Last year in Buffalo, it really felt like a job,” said Corkum, who started the season as a checking center. “Here, every thing’s positive. The team’s playing really well right now. I got a good start and scored some goals in the first 13 or 14 games and started believing in myself and started shooting a little bit more.”