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How often do you hear Teemu Selanne use a curse word? About as often as you see him in a fight, right? Well, after our loss to the Preds, Selanne had some choice expletives to describe the team’s performance.

Not that you can blame the guy. Selanne played his heart out, scored twice and then was let down by sloppy defense who made more turnovers than your grandmother on Christmas Day.

On top of that, Randy Carlyle was equally vocal in accusing Nashville of diving like Greg Louganis, while Nashville coach Barry Trotz dismissed the accusation and instead deflected by telling anyone within earshot about how many penalty minutes the Ducks have racked up compared to his team.

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Ducks came out strong in game two, but seemed to lose most of their steam about the mid third period. Also in evidence was some obviously bad sportsmanship (again) committed by the Preds (once again targeting Selanne), blind and/or oblivious officials (bad calls/non-calls) and I guess Bobby Ryan had reached the end of his tether when he stomped on Jonathon Blum’s instep during a tangle up behind the net late in the third.

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