09-01-2016, 03:12 AM
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. He had a pair of goals, and Jonas Hiller made 34 saves for his 17th NHL shutout in Anaheims 6-0 rout of the New York Rangers on Thursday night in the home opener of the Ducks 20th season. Silfverberg was acquired from Ottawa when the Ducks traded veteran Bobby Ryan in July. The 22-year-old right wing is holding his own on a line with 43-year-old Teemu Selanne and Mathieu Perreault. They assisted on both goals by Silfverberg, who had the second two-goal game of his young career. "Ive been fortunate to play with two great players," Silfverberg said. "Theyre so good at one-on-one battles and at finding me. Ive been lucky so far and its a matter of keep shooting the puck." Dustin Penner and Daniel Winnik each added a goal and an assist. The goals were the most scored by Anaheim and its largest margin of victory, both in a home opener. "We want to build up a lot of confidence at the start of the season," Silfverberg said. "We cant get satisfied. We got to keep pushing harder." New York has been outscored 20-6 to start their first season under new coach Alain Vigneault. The Rangers lost 9-2 at San Jose on Tuesday. "If we play this way, were going to be in deep trouble," defenceman Dan Girardi said. "Weve just got to figure out what the heck is going on and start being a hard team to play against, and get back to what we were successful at the last couple of years." The Ducks outshot the Rangers 37-34 for their third win in a row in the teams first meeting in nearly two years. Playing without injured All-Star forward Rick Nash, the Rangers fell to 1-3 on their nine-game trip, the longest to open a season in franchise history. Nash got hit in the face by San Joses Brad Stuart on Tuesday. Stuart received a three-game suspension for an illegal check to the head. New Yorks Henrik Lundqvist, a finalist for the Vezina Trophy last season, stopped 31 shots in losing for the third time in four games. "Its going to be hard for Henrik to stop everything if we keep turning the puck over like that," centre Derick Brassard said. "We just need to support the puck better and make the simple tape-to-tape pass. Were not executing right now and its really hurt us. We pretty much had the same game in San Jose, but I dont think its because of lack of effort." The Ducks built a 3-0 lead on goals by Ryan Getzlaf, Silfverberg and Winnik in the first period, when Anaheim outshot the Rangers 17-3. "I had a good seat for an exciting game," Hiller joked about having little to do in the first. Silfverbergs initial goal came on a tip-in. "Its really nice to see him fit right in that line," Hiller said. "Its great to see him scoring." The Rangers were the NHLs least penalized team last season, but they racked up 26 minutes worth in the first. Derek Dorsett accounted for 19 minutes, including a 10-minute misconduct after instigating a fight with Anaheims Bryan Allen. Silfverberg struck again 1:27 into the second, scoring on a long rebound that caught Lundqvist out of the net. The play began when Benoit Pouliot gave away the puck in New Yorks zone. "Theres just no pride going on right now in our defensive zone," Rangers captain Ryan Callahan said. Saku Koivu made it 5-0 on a wrist shot, and Penner beat Lundqvist glove side to score his first goal of the season, giving the Ducks three more goals in the period. "The first two periods were as good as we can play," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. The Rangers cut their penalties to one in the second, when they kept Hiller busier by outshooting the Ducks 14-13 but still had nothing to show for it. "Its kind of tough when youre up 6-0 to keep pushing," Hiller said. "It was nice to get a couple stops there." In the third, New York had 17 shots to Anaheims seven. NOTES: Penner and Nick Bonino left the game with lower body injuries, and Perreault sustained an upper body injury. ... It was the first time New York allowed at least six goals in consecutive games since Oct. 12 and 14, 2006. ... The Rangers were the opponent for the other teams home opener for the third time in four games. ... The teams last played on Nov. 3, 2011, in New York. ... Selanne, who at 43 is the NHLs oldest player, got a standing ovation during pregame introductions. Among the coaching staff, former team captain and current assistant Scott Niedermayer received the loudest cheers. ... The Ducks plan to celebrate the franchises 20th anniversary all season, including Sunday when they will wear Mighty Ducks purple retro jerseys. Fourteen of the original players from the 1993 squad will attend. ... Kiss Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley attended the game and held up gear representing the L.A. Kiss, the Arena Football League team that will play at Honda Center starting next year. The rockers have an ownership interest in the team. So the Los Angeles Angels, the team with the best record in Major League baseball over 162 games, are out of the post-season in three games straight, defeated by a team that won nine fewer games during the regular season and didnt clinch a playoff spot until the final weekend of the season. The Washington Nationals, the team with the best record in the National League this season, are a game away from being knocked out in three games straight by a San Francisco team that won eight fewer games during the regular season and, like Kansas City, qualified via the wild card. But should we really be surprised? The playoffs in baseball are a crapshoot, a combination of who gets hot at the right time, who comes through in the clutch and whose pitching rises to the occasion. And there seems to be no way to predict how and why this happens. But it sure seems as though what wins over the course of 162 games in baseball, when teams are playing with five-man rotations and stretching out their bullpens to last over the course of six months, doesnt translate very well to the post-season. Consider that over the past 34 years of post-season baseball, the team with the best record in the Major Leagues has won the World Series exactly six times, most recently when Boston Red Sox did it one year ago. In fact, last yeaars World Series was a complete anomaly a€“ not just because it featured two teams that tied for the overall best record in baseball over the course of the season but also because it was a rare matchup between the team with the best record in the American League against that with the best record in the National League.dddddddddddd Which almost never happens. It would be easy to blame the fact that the team with the best record in baseball rarely wins the World Series on baseballs expanded playoff pool which has gone from allowing four of 28 teams in the post-season in 1993 to allowing 10 of 30 today. And yet from 1980 to 1993, the team with the best record in baseball won the World Series exactly twice over 14 seasons before baseball decided to expand its playoff pool. Since then, its happened four times over 19 years. Baseball is a sport that measures excellence over six months, during which great teams can look horrible in stretches and bad teams can look like world beaters over the course of a week or two. The point here is not to diminish the significance of winning the World Series, but just to understand what it means; that it is not so much symbolic of being the best team in baseball but more of being the one that can seize the moments and etch itself into a place in history. 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