European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 31 lesser known Moen steals glory in game 1 scores late goal to help ducks win Stanley cup opener by Ira Podell the associated press Teemu be Daniel Alfredson and Dany Heatley All had a Chance to show off their offensive prowess during their debut in the Stanley cup the scoring glory was left to a 25yearold checking for who knew just what to do with a bouncing Travis with a total of 24 previous regular season and play off quickly swatted at the puck in the Slot and knocked it past Ray Emery with that gave the Anaheim ducks a 32 Victory Over the Ottawa Sena tors in the Stanley cup finals opener monday i caught it on the Way got a Lucky shot and it went it was Moen i think every kid dreams of scoring a goal to win a game in the Stanley cup Moens fifth of the playoffs came after Ryan Getzlaff tying goal earlier erased the 21 Lead Ottawa carried into the third Rob Niedermayer kept the win Ning play alive with a sweeping move behind the then nudged the puck in his checking line mates he picked the Corner and he deserves Niedermayer Hes a pretty hardworking the 36yearold play ing in the finals for the first time in his 14year was he led the ducks this season with 48 goals and 94 Heatley and Jason Spezza the senators top line that Tore through the Eastern con Ference with 23 goals and 58 assists in the first three playoff rounds were also there dangerous every time there out on the Nieder Mayer that a great i mean All three of Chris p Anaheim Travis is congratulated by teammate Rob Niedermayer after scoring the winning goal monday during the third period of game 1 of the Stanley cup finals against the ducks won in the first matchup of the teams this along with Niedermayer and Samuel held the Trio to two assists and handed the senators their first series opening loss in these Mike Fisher staked Ottawa to a 10 Lead in the first period with a Power play goal on the senators first and defens Eman Wade Redden also scored on the Man advantage in the Andy Mcdonald netted a goal in the first for the who will look to take a 20 Lead at Home on the senators appeared ready to win their first Stanley cup finals game since the franchise was reborn in but the ducks fought Back and stole it Ottawa lost Only one game in each of its other three playoff series and now faces its first i thought we came out pretty Good the first 10 heat Ley after a you cant duplicate game i dont think were using it As an i just dont think we played up to our Ottawa went without a shot from the Mark of the first until the end of the period and finished with its not so much what they its what we didst do As a Spezza we didst have As much Jea Sebastien Giguere made 18 saves Overall to improve to 103 in the Getzlaff s goal put the ducks in a great position Anaheim is 130 in the playoffs when scoring at least then Moen put them right where they want to be ahead in the As thrilled As the sellout crowd was in the it was nowhere near the excitement Back in where his family and friends camped out in front of the i know my mom had 20 people Over he Stanley cup finals All games live at 2 on or dates and times Are get tuesday Anaheim Ottawa Ana Heim leads series 10 thursday Ottawa at Anaheim sunday Anaheim at Ottawa june 5 Anaheim at Ottawa june 7 Ottawa at june 10 Anaheim at Ottawa june 12 Ottawa at if necessary even after grabbing an Early Emery and the rest of the senators showed some rust in the first period following an eight Day Emery left Juicy rebounds and looked a bit unsteady in his but he bounced Back in the second stopping All 10 Anaheim including one he grabbed out of the air As it threat ened to bound past Redden broke a 11 tie in the Middle making up for los ing the puck in the opening period that led to Mcdonalds tying it was nearly enough to give the senators a win in their first Ven Ture out of the Eastern time zone since Ottawa fell to 72 on the Road in the we didst get the puck on we didst have the its not easy when you have that Many Days Spezza we didst give our Best Effort and still had a Chance to we were in it right to the end and it says a lot about our the off five Days since eliminating seemed to take control after Mcdonald tied but gave Back the momentum to the senators by taking penal Nick Johns Hopkins goalie Jesse Schwartzman 2 makes a save As Dukes Zack Greer 25 looks on during the Mcaa mens Divi Sion i Lacrosse championship game monday in Hopkins won Hopkins ends Dukes run in Lacrosse title game by David Ginsburg the associated press Baltimore one of the roles of a coach is to provide his players with guid Ance they can use for the rest of their Duke Lacrosse coach John Danowski certainly had that kind of influence on his band of at the end of an emotional it was Danowski who ended up thanking his team for making him a better Johns Hopkins beat Duke 1211 monday to win its ninth Mcaa Lacrosse Champion but those who followed the season closely will most remember the accomplishment of a Duke squad that returned to form after having its 2006 season stolen this is the most phenomenal group of Young men i have Ever had the privilege to be the or respect or affection that i have for these it will run through my Core for the rest of my Danowski to know what they went and to act and carry themselves the Way they did All year Long was unbelief the Blue devils fell 98 to Hopkins in the 2005 title but missed a Chance to return to the final four in 2006 after an exotic dancer claimed she was attacked by three Duke players at a team the which included rape and kidnapping ultimately proved to be but the revelation came too late to save Dukes 2006 season or the Job of coach Mike who watched Mon Days game among the Champion ship game record crowd of fans while Danowski ran a team consisting of dozens of Pressler the Danowski was All it was the pressure that was on and How people treated them and How people talked about them and How people wrote about them and How the Media portrayed and All they did was persevere every he they did so in the championship rallying from a 104 halftime deficit to draw even at 11 on a goal by Max Quinzani with Hopkins attack Man Kevin Huntley Fol Lowed with his third goal of the with to but the Blue jays 134 celebrate until Quinzanos shot went wide of the goal As time i thought it was going it must have been an Inchan Dahal wide of that Bot Tom right Quinzani said Danowski this int there Are no storybook endings for these and for in the Duke locker room was silent after several players cried others refused to Peel off their uniform for what would be the last right now i think everyone in Here is we just lost the National in a couple of maybe Well look what we a com goaltender Dan Loftus but we wanted a National that what we came Here
