anaheim ducks plays at the honda center in anaheim california.
anaheim ducks plays at the honda center in anaheim california.
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anaheim ducks
december proved to be an incredibly challenging month for anaheim thanks to the longest road trip of the season (7 games). they started out by beating the florida panthers, but promptly losing the next two games to detroit and phoenix on december 3 and december 5 respectively. after those three games, the ducks only had two games at honda center from december 7 through december 28 and they started this stretch of time well by beating the edmonton oilers in a shootout at rexall place and taking a point from the vancouver canucks by virtue of a shootout loss at rogers arena. with the victory over the oilers, the ducks moved above the .500 mark and did not fall below that mark for the rest of the 2010–11 season. the ducks returned home to beat the calgary flames 3–2 in a shootout and after three straight games being decided in the shootout, the ducks beat the minnesota wild decisively 6–2. after the game against the wild on the 12th, the anaheim ducks did not return to the friendly confines of honda center until december 31. anaheim started out the road trip well by beating the reeling washington capitals (the washington loss marked their seventh in a row of an eventual eight game skid), however, in front of the smallest crowd of the season (7,659) the ducks fell to the lowly new york islanders at the nassau coliseum. the ducks then lost two of the next three games, beating only the boston bruins before heading into the short christmas break. back home in southern california, the ducks dropped the first game after christmas to cross-town rival los angeles at staples center, but they did win the final two games of the month at phoenix and finally back home at honda center over the philadelphia flyers. the game on december 31 against the flyers, was originally intended to be chris pronger's first game at honda center since his trade, however, due to injuries, he was unable to play. despite an 8–6–1 record, the ducks were in a playoff position for most of the month of december partially thanks to the fact that they had played more games than any other western conference team. they were also the first in the western conference to reach the 41 game mark (halfway point in the season) and they got there with 44 points. this marked the team's third best first half since the lockout only behind their 62-point showing in 2006–07 and their 47 points in 2008–09.
2010–11 anaheim ducks season
a significant losing streak the calgary flames had during games played in anaheim has come to be referred to as the "honda center curse". after winning game 3 of the 2006 western conference quarter final at the then arrowhead pond on april 25, 2006, the flames have gone on to lose an nhl record 29 consecutive away games at the arrowhead pond/honda center, including all 27 games played there under the arena's current name (the arena became honda center starting in the 2006-07 season ). of these 29 losses, 2 came in the remaining games of the 2006 western conference quarter final, 3 came in the 2015 western conference semi final, and 2 came in the 2017 western conference quarter final. furthermore, the flames last regular season win in anaheim came on january 19, 2004. the flames losing streak at the then arrowhead pond/honda center has led some ducks fans to taunt the flames with chants of "you can't win here!".
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