Stop the Penalties

The ducks have yet to gain some type of consistency regarding dominence on many of there recent games due to the penalties they have been taken? Everytime we seem to score, get this or that scoring chance we ruin any momentum by a penalty. But who are the culprits?

Again, as stated in my first post, the reason why I started this was to publish a true fan perspective. And this fan perspective relies on sometimes intuition and even maybe team energy which cannot be truely measured by player and team stats.

Unfortunately, for the ducks the problem relies in the solution. The best defensive and offensive players are causing us grief. These two players, Pronger and Perry seem to take the worst penalties at the worst times. Just watch the last few lost Ducks games and you will see what I mean. Or look at the PIM player by player.

Listen I know that these players benefits are numberous for Perry, he works as a great agitator, goal scorer and pays the price in the crease. For Pronger, his long reach and large frame cuts off the puck penetration in the corners and he can dish it out to anybody. He is like a large reliable oak in forest, and belive me - he's got the limbs to prove it.

But come on! Burke lay into these guys! They can't have it both ways. Burke has to be scratching his head on what else he can do to make these guys see that they can't be taking these bad infractions.

Unforuntely I don't think they are listening. After our embarassing loss to the Caps of which we should have had no problem winning, Burke said he had been communicating just that. Only nobodies listening. Ooops! Does this mean that there might be a lack of respect? If you don't have players that are listening you might have an old school Phil Jackson/Kobe/Shac issue. Over that!

Anyhow, hopefully we can pull it together and get to the top of the standings in the West. We need to definetly prepare for the heavy hitters. For example, Sharks, Red Wings, and Rangers.

Go Ducks!!!!