Make it 28-love and counting.
Ducks coach Randy Carlyle likened holding home-ice advantage to holding serve in tennis. It’s been well documented that the Ducks have held it for more than a decade against the Calgary Flames, and it didn’t change in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Thursday.
Rickard Rakell and Jakob Silfverberg erased a one-goal deficit with second-period goals in a 3-2 win at pumped-up Honda Center.
Ryan Getzlaf delivered a captain-esque game with a goal and an assist and the Ducks got a huge penalty kill late to to squash any thoughts of history extinguishing.