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PHOENIX (AP) -- Sean Burke knows Anaheim's game plan. He just
doesn't know how to stop it consistently.
"They'll go out there and not do a lot, and all of a sudden
they get a breakaway with Paul Kariya or (Teemu) Selanne, and then
they capitalize," Burke said, giving a short synopsis of the
Mighty Ducks' 4-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night.
|  | | With the hat trick, Teemu Selanne now has 20 goals on the season for the Ducks. |
Selanne scored three goals in the third period, breaking two
ties, and the Mighty Ducks snapped their six-game losing streak by
beating an opponent they feel confident playing. The Ducks, who
have won just three times in their last 20 games, remained
invincible in Phoenix, going 2-0-1 this season.
"It's been very frustrating," said Selanne, who had his 16th
career hat trick and first this season. "A lot of games we played
pretty well, but we really didn't get rewarded with a win, and that
was frustrating. So I guess we need to try to use this as a
confidence boost and get this thing rolling again."
On Nov. 18, the Ducks handed Burke his worst loss of the season,
6-2.
This time they needed only 24 shots to win. Burke faced 23, and
Selanne got his hat trick into an empty net with 26 seconds left.
Pascal Trepanier had a power-play goal, and Jean-Sebastien
Giguere made 36 saves for Anaheim.
"It was a great effort," coach Guy Charron said. "We were
looking for anything to build on going into the All-Star break."
Daniel Briere and Claude Lemieux scored the Coyotes' goals. But
Giguere rejected shots by each in the final 5:13, smothering a
short forehand by Lemieux with his glove and putting his chest in
the way of a shot by Briere to thwart a breakaway.
"Giguere in the net, he was there when we needed him," Selanne
said.
Selanne sent a wrist shot between Burke's skates 1:19 into the
third and six seconds after the Finn, who has made a career of
bedeviling Phoenix since the Coyotes traded him five years ago,
left the penalty box.
Jason Marshall passed the puck to Selanne as he bolted from the
box and outskated two defensemen.
Lemieux, who assisted on Briere's goal, answered to tie it at 2,
sending a heavy slap shot from the off wing past Giguere. But
Selanne gave the Ducks the lead again with 9:57 to play when he
redirected a slap shot by Mike Crowley.
"Hopefully this is as low as it gets and as bad as it gets,"
Lemieux said. "Hopefully we go uphill from now on."
The Coyotes took only one shot in the first 11 minutes, but
finished the first period with 12.
Giguere made three strong saves during a stretch late in the
period when the Coyotes held the puck in Anaheim's end for more
than a minute. At one point, the goalie lost his stick when a
teammate fell on him, but preserved the shutout.
But the Coyotes kept up the pressure in the second period, and
took a brief lead when Briere scored his eighth power-play goal in
the last 13 games.
Until then, the Ducks had had just one manpower advantage. They
got another during a penalty on Phoenix's Radoslav Suchy. With
three seconds left in the power play, Trepanier fired a slap shot
from the blue line that appeared to deflect in off Phoenix
defenseman Stan Neckar.
Game notes
Mike Sullivan, a key penalty-killer for Phoenix, played
after missing three games with a concussion. ... Selanne went ahead
of Marty McInnis for the team lead in goals with his 18th, 19th and
20th. ... The Ducks are 5-4-2 in Phoenix the last 11 games in
Phoenix. ... Lemieux had gone 11 games without a goal.
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