Ducks lose to Calgary, 1-0 in overtime

Reporting from Calgary, Canada — The dominating offensive team — so to speak — had a sizzling four shots on goal in the second period.

That would be the Ducks, doubling the total of the Calgary Flames in the second. Thankfully, the pace picked up Thursday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

A bit.

Still, the scoreless game destined to go to overtime did just that. The Flames capitalized on a Ducks breakdown and center Blair Jones scored at 1:51 into the extra session when he converted his own rebound, giving Calgary a 1-0 win and handing the Ducks their first loss in four games.

Leaving Calgary with only one point is not enough for the Ducks. Not where they are in the standings, second to last in the Western Conference with 33 points in 42 games.

“I felt we played well enough to get two points,” said Ducks center Saku Koivu. “We got one, but when you look at our situation, and where we are, in games likes this we can’t afford to lose that one point. We’ve got to get that extra one.”

They squandered a solid effort from goalie Jonas Hiller, who was coming back after suffering a lower-body injury Sunday and said he felt fine. At times, he faced little, if almost no work and then had to come up with huge plays, for instance, two nice saves on Flames captain Jarome Iginla.

The Ducks killed a Lubomir Visnovsky penalty late in regulation and Koivu won three faceoffs during that stretch. “There was, defensively, a lot of good things,” Koivu said. “But obviously we’ve got to get more pucks on the net.”

One of them developed off a two-on-one that Koivu had with Nik Hagman about midway through the third period. The play was reviewed by Toronto, but it ruled that Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff kept the puck from crossing the line.

“They had six shots after two periods,” said Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau. “I was more worried about Jonas being cold than anything else. In the end, both teams had enough chances to bury one, but the goaltending was good. We made a mistake in overtime and they took advantage of it.”

That happened to be what turned into a three-on-two by the Flames in overtime and the winning goal.

“Bobby [Ryan] hit the guy [the Flames’ Lee Stempniak] at the end of the shift on a four-on-four and Bobby let the guy go and it was that guy who created the three-on-two,” Boudreau said.

For most of the night, proceedings on the ice were overshadowed by doings elsewhere. Early in the game, word started spreading that former Kings center Michael Cammalleri was headed out of Montreal and back to Calgary.

He returned in exchange for the Flames’ Rene Bourque, who is in the midst of serving a suspension. The crowd at the Saddledome gave Calgary General Manager Jay Feaster a loud ovation during the first intermission when his news conference to announce the trade was on the scoreboard.

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