Mighty Ducks Get the Broom Out for Rangers : Hockey: Anaheim’s 3-2 victory ends New York’s winning streak and gives the expansion franchise a sweep of the season series.

The New York Rangers have won 32 games this season, more than any other team in the NHL. But no matter how many more they win, they won’t win one against the Mighty Ducks in the regular season.

The Ducks, who beat the Rangers at Madison Square Garden in the franchise’s first road game Oct. 19, completed the improbable sweep Friday with a 3-2 victory, sending most of the sellout crowd of 17,174 at Anaheim Arena into raucous cheers.

“To win against the best team in hockey at home for our fans and our players is special,” said Coach Ron Wilson, whose team won consecutive home games for the first time.

“We were really pumped up to beat them,” said goalie Guy Hebert, who made 28 saves. “We held on against a great team and played hard for 60 minutes.”

The early-season loss to the Ducks caused frustrated Ranger Coach Mike Keenan to break a stick over the crossbar at practice the next day. This time, he stood behind the bench in what looked like disbelief after the Ducks won their 20th game of the season, its second at his team’s expense.

“I’m sure there was a revenge factor, but that was a long time ago,” Wilson said. “It’s tough for them to go back-to-back--that was an emotional game they played (an overtime victory over the Kings Thursday night.)”

Said Keenan: “We showed symptoms of a little bit of fatigue tonight, no question about it. We didn’t have the normal jump we do in most games . . . but we still had our chances.”

The Rangers came from two goals back to tie it, 2-2, but Duck defenseman Bobby Dollas broke the tie at 3:25 of the third with a hard shot from low in the slot after Troy Loney, while forechecking, helped separate Alexander Karpovtsev from the puck. Joe Sacco brought it around from behind the net to set up the play.

There was still a battle ahead though, because the Rangers went on a four-minute power play at 11:44 when Terry Yake was given a double-minor for high-sticking Alexei Kovalev. But the Rangers managed only one shot during the long power play, and after that, Hebert needed to hold them off only another 4 1/2 minutes.

It was a physical, fight-filled game, but the Ducks prevailed.

“I told the team before the game, ‘Expect to be hit, and let’s answer a hit for a hit,’ ” Wilson said. “When we got up, 2-0, they put their big tough guys out. They were asking us to answer the bell and we did.”

Todd Ewen answered it on one side of the ice against Nick Kypreos, and on the far boards, Stu Grimson tangled with Joey Kocur.

The Ducks led, 2-0, after the first period. Bob Corkum scored his team-leading 17th goal at 8:41 when his pass meant for Tim Sweeney in the slot went in off the skate of Ranger defenseman Kevin Lowe. Sweeney made it 2-0 with a power-play goal from the bottom of the right circle off a pass from Yake at 16:40.

The Ducks had more and better chances than the Rangers, but goalie Glenn Healy--who was a Duck for a day between phases of the expansion draft in June--helped keep them from capitalizing.

“They surprised me with their offense,” Healy said. “They had as many chances against us as any team we’ve played lately. I thought we’d get just a sheltered defensive game from them, but that’s not what it turned out to be.”

Still, by the end of the second period, Ranger captain Mark Messier had scored twice, and the Rangers had caught up.

Messier scored off an assist by Kovalev at 12:05, then sent the Rangers in tied at the second intermission by beating Hebert between the pads on a breakaway with 40 seconds left in the period.

“The only two goals they got, we made a couple of mental mistakes and a superstar scored both goals,” Wilson said.

It wasn’t enough.

“They played a hell of a game,” said Ranger Esa Tikkanen. “They deserved to win.”

Notes

The Ducks have signed junior hockey player Mike Maneluk, 20, to a multi-year contract, but he will not join the organization until next season. Maneluk, a left wing, has never been drafted but has 43 goals and 41 assists in 50 games with the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League. He is likely to play for minor-league affiliate San Diego next year. “Maneluk is an extremely talented offensive player with great speed,” said David McNab, director of player personnel. . . . Defenseman Sean Hill played after missing nine games with a sprained left shoulder. . . . Defenseman Alexei Kasatonov was scratched because of a foot bruise suffered Wednesday against Winnipeg. . . . Steven King has been the forward scratched the last two games to make way for the return of Anatoli Semenov.