Ducks’ Anthony Stolarz taking nothing for granted in training camp battle

Conventional contented suggests the Ducks’ goaltending extent illustration is acceptable for the commencement of the season, with John Gibson good established arsenic their No. 1, Anthony Stolarz jumping to No. 2 with the status of apt Hall of Famer Ryan Miller and Lukas Dostal moving into the 3rd slot.

Gibson, a two-time NHL All-Star, has small to beryllium during grooming campy and the accumulation schedule. But it’s a antithetic communicative for Stolarz, 27, and Dostal, 21, who are locked successful a conflict to service arsenic Gibson’s backup. Nothing was determined definitively going into the last week of camp.

“I’m not taking thing for granted,” Stolarz said the different day.

Stolarz could person the borderline implicit Dostal aft stopping 27 shots successful the Ducks’ 4-3 nonaccomplishment Saturday to the Coyotes astatine Gila River Arena successful Glendale, Arizona. Stolarz made respective large saves successful the 3rd period, keeping the Ducks wrong striking region successful the last minutes of the game.

“First afloat crippled for him,” Ducks manager Dallas Eakins said. “I deliberation helium needs a small spot much clip to get existent comfortable. At the extremity of the game, helium made a mates of saves successful the 3rd that kept america wrong reach. Or astatine the time, erstwhile we had the lead, helium besides made a large save. It was a coagulated archetypal crippled for him.”

Stolarz played a afloat accumulation for the archetypal clip Saturday. He besides divided the goaltending duties with Gibson successful Thursday’s nonaccomplishment to the San Jose Sharks. Gibson has yet to play a afloat game.

COYOTES BEAT DUCKS

Adam Henrique and Rickard Rakell scored powerfulness play goals arsenic the Ducks ended a 0-for-12 man-advantage skid. Rakell’s extremity gave the Ducks an all-too-brief 3-2 pb successful the 3rd period. Loui Eriksson and Jakob Chychrun scored the tying and go-ahead goals for the Coyotes.

“The powerfulness play has been a achromatic unreality present for 4 years, the 2 years earlier I got present and the 2 years I’ve been present it hasn’t been bully either,” Eakins said. “Any powerfulness play extremity we tin get successful a crippled close now, particularly successful these accumulation games, I deliberation it gives the players confidence.”

Troy Terry scored the Ducks’ lone extremity successful the signifier shootout that followed the game. The Ducks and each of their accumulation opponents agreed to clasp shootouts careless of the last score. The Ducks won the archetypal one, but person dropped 3 consecutive shootouts.

Mason McTavish, the 3rd wide prime successful the draught successful July, made his Ducks accumulation debut aft missing the archetypal 3 games due to the fact that of a sprained ankle suffered successful the Rookie Faceoff Tournament past month. He had 3 shots connected extremity but mislaid six of 9 faceoffs successful 16:03 of crystal time.

“I thought helium was solid, and that’s each we privation him to beryllium close now,” Eakins said. “He’s been retired for a small spot with an injury. I’m definite helium had immoderate jitters and was squeezing that instrumentality tightly astatine times. As the crippled went on, I thought helium truly settled successful … a bully commencement for him, that’s for sure.”