Carlyle wants team to reduce penalties

Scott Niedermayer took the first one, followed by Ric Jackman, Ryan Getzlaf and Francois Beauchemin. Then came Samuel Pahlsson, Niedermayer again and Chris Pronger.

Seven penalties total for the Ducks, who beat Ottawa, 3-2, in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals despite giving the Senators 10 minutes and 13 seconds of power-play time, including a five-on-three for 1:35 in the second period.

“I’ve talked about the discipline factor,” said Coach Randy Carlyle, whose Ducks host Game 2 tonight. “I’ve been asked that question so many times that you think I’ve never talked to the players about it. It’s like your kids at home, I guess. Sometimes there’s a thousand different ways to tell them, but it’s a lot easier to say it than to live it.”

In 17 playoff games, the Ducks lead all teams in penalty minutes and have been short-handed a whopping 103 times, resulting in 14 power-play goals (86.4%).

“We talked about the Jackman [roughing] penalty today,” Carlyle said after the Ducks’ practice on Tuesday. “That’s an unacceptable penalty. The Getzlaf penalty [cross-checking], it’s unacceptable. Beauchemin’s tripping penalty, those are unacceptable.

“There are other penalties that you take in defending your net position ... you would consider those good penalties or acceptable. Did we take too many penalties? Yes.... We want to limit the number of penalties. Simple as that. Sometimes it’s easier said than done.”

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Game 1, televised by Versus, got a 1.7 rating with a 4 share in the Los Angeles market and was watched at any one time by an average of 166,000 viewers.

The 1.7 rating is the best Versus rating for hockey in Los Angeles. But three other U.S. markets had a better rating. Buffalo got a 3.9, Denver a 2.2 and Pittsburgh a 2.0. The Ducks’ series against the Detroit Red Wings averaged a 0.5 L.A. rating on Versus.

Because Monday was a holiday, the national numbers for Game 1 were not available Tuesday. The average audience for the CBC telecast in Canada was 2.6 million. The CBC does not use a rating system, nor does it break down how many viewers there are in each major market.

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The Ducks will hold watch parties at the Honda Center for Game 3 and at Fox Sports Grill in the Irvine Spectrum for Game 4. Doors will open at 4 p.m. on Saturday for Game 3.

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Times staff writer Larry Stewart contributed to report.

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