Anaheim dominates Dallas en route to 4-2 victory

Finally, for the first time this season, the Ducks were up to the challenge of playing the Stars. Scott Niedermayer had his biggest night since returning, garnering himself the game’s first goal as well as two assists to tie his career high of 3 pts in a game (which he has done 15 times now)!

Todd Marchant, Ryan Getzlaf and Todd Bertuzzi had the other Ducks goals, with Getzlaf and Bertuzzi also adding an assist. Giguere was solid with 22 saves. Turco, the much busier goalie, can’t say the same stopping 32 of 36 in the loss. He also was beat by Brandon Bochenski on a late-game breakaway, but luckily (for Turco) the shot rang off the cross-bar. Chris Kunitz also had the first penalty shot of his career but lost control of the puck and was not able to fire a shot off.

The ducks ended their four-game homestand a perfect 4-0, beating Nashville, Toronto, San Jose and Dallas. They also moved ahead of Dallas into second spot in the Pacific Division, one point less than the Sharks (who lost tonight to Phoenix).

Niklas Hagman and Loui Eriksson scored for Dallas in the losing effort. The game however was not as close as the score.

Brad May also had a tremendous, old-school fight with Stars’ tough-guy Krys Barch.