DENVER — It would have been forgivable if the Anaheim Ducks' postgame scene after their first regulation loss in 15 games Wednesday night had gone something like this: "Hey boys, it was a real nice run. Can't win 'em all, and a night like this was bound to happen sooner or later. So let's just have a cold one and toast to the streak and get back at 'er tomorrow."
But that was nothing like how it actually went in the visitors' dressing room at the Pepsi Center, where the Colorado Avalanche had just shut out the Ducks 3-0. The reporters on hand came at Ducks players with those empathetic lines of questioning. But Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf would have none of it.
"We weren't prepared to play tonight. Simple as that," said Getzlaf, despite the Ducks outshooting Colorado 37-26 and winning 57 percent of the game's faceoffs.
Another reporter asked if all the "battles" the team has been through of late, including a rough-and-tumble win over its Southern California rival, the Los Angeles Kings, on Saturday, might have been the reason for the off night.
"It's an excuse," Getzlaf said. "But we didn't show ...
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