Flyers Head Coach John Stevens Q: I know you get a point out of this, but that’s got to be a pretty shocking defeat the way you had it pretty much won in the third period… “A 2-0 hockey game, two points has to be in your pocket.  We let that point slip away.  The only saving grace is that it’s to a Western Conference team.  I thought we played great in the first period and did all the things necessary to win hockey games.  Then [got] a little bit off page in the second period, turned some pucks over – one was a penalty, we had a power play coming and we negated it by taking a penalty ourselves…. I mean, those are things you can’t do if you expect to win hockey games.  We should push that team further away and make them react to us, and I thought we let them hang around. Q: How would you describe Selanne? “He’s an opportunistic guy.  When you see a player like that, his composure really comes to mind.  I thought some of their guys were getting frustrated earlier in the game, some of the younger players, and he never does.  He always seems like he’s in control and it’s hard to tell the difference between when he’s winning and when he’s losing because he always looks upbeat and he’s an opportunistic guy.  It almost looked like he had a twinkle in his eye there at the end like he was going to make something happen.” Q: Was it turnovers again there late in the third period? “No.  The one play there, a line change, the guys come on the ice, you just circle back with the puck and we didn’t pick up the guy going through just on a missed assignment.  The last one there, Niedermayer made a great play… one, the puck should get out on the wall, and two, I thought we pulled it off too much instead of just keeping the puck on the wall and pressuring it hard where it was.  So he makes a [saucer] backhand from the corner to the dot on the far side of the ice to the wrong guy.  So he made a great play, but desperation time, game’s on the line, the puck’s got to get out and the puck’s got to stay on the wall.” ***ANAHEIM DUCKS*** Ducks Head Coach Randy Carlyle Q: Did Scott [Niedermayer] see Teemu [Selanne] on the back door?

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