this is war.

Earlier tonight the Ducks played the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena in Ohio.  It was captain Scott Niedermayer's 1200th game, the second road game out of four, and J.S. Giguere's, nicknamed Jiggy, first game back since being injured.  The Ducks got off to on okay start. The Blue Jackets gave the two Ducks two early powerplays, but the Ducks didn't score on either of them.  Less than 10 seconds after the second powerplay ended, Corey Perry dropped passed to Ryan Getzlaf, who passed the puck to Bobby Ryan who scored from his position near the net.  The Ducks were up 1-0, allowing Getzlaf and Perry to extend their point streaks to 10 games.  But the Ducks get lazy with for the next few minutes, they stop moving their feet and Columbus captain Rick Nash scored on a breakaway to tie the game 1-1.  Getzlaf gets a late penalty at 19:39 of the first for holding, but the Blue Jackets dont score and the penalty carries over.

Second period starts with the Ducks still on the penalty kill. The Jackets don't capitalize on the one man advantage, and when Getzlaf comes out of the penalty box, he immediately joins the rush, passes the puck to Marchant who then scores. Ducks up 2-1, but get caught with bad shifts and take penalties. Columbus takes advantage this time and scores with Jiggy out of position, 2-2 tie game. For Jiggy commentating to the media lately that he wants to be the number one goalie and starter for most of the games, he sure doesn't play like it. A few minutes pass and Columbus takes a couple penalties but the Ducks cant score, making then 3/27 this season on the man advantage.  Ryan Getzlaf gives fans a mini heart-attack as a slapshot he takes goes into Corey Perry, who's in his usual position in front of the net.  Corey comes back after a few minutes and everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

The third period has never been a strong point for the Ducks, and in this game the story was no different.  The Ducks spent a lot of time in the Blue Jackets' attack zone, almost giving up a goal on a few ocassions. Not to be outdone, the Ducks do get some good looking shots on goal, but Columbus goalie Garon stops them all. No one scores and the game goes to overtime. Four on four overtime is up and down for both teams with good looking chances for both. The Jackets take a penalty to give the Ducks a four on three advantage, but halfway through the powerplay, Whitney is guilty of cross-checking and the game goes to rare three on three.  No one scores again and the game goes to a shootout.

Huselius goes first for the Jackets and scores on Jiggy, who barely moves.
Getzlaf goes for Ducks, misses.
Filatov goes for the Jackets and Jiggy barely saves it.
Perry goes for the Ducks, and misses.
Nash goes the Jackets, scores of course. Jiggy didnt even move.

Jackets win 3-2 and I still hold up that Jiggy needs to be traded. You can't comment that you want to be our number one goalie and play like that. You barely moved in the shootout and you're $6 million we could be using on something else, like better defense. Time to go Jiggy and please, take head coach Randy Carlyle with you.