Paul Mara gave the Anaheim Ducks' faithful something to cheer about on Sunday during a season of defensive injuries, lapses, and general woes. It's somewhat fitting, or some weird form of vindication, for one of the team's less-prolific d-men to get the 5-4 winning goal in dramatic fashion on Sunday, with him scoring with less than two seconds left against the Nashville Predators. The two teams actually alternated scoring all the nine goals in the game, with forever-young Teemu Selanne scoring the first just 52 seconds in. Selanne, with two points, now shares the team-lead with 17 points. Mara, surprisingly, now has one goal and one point on the season. Considering his ever-decreasing point totals over his career, I half-expected him to have regressed into negative figures by now, but good for him.
Meanwhile, the Ducks have given up the third-most goals in the league with 50, which would be really, really depressing were it not for the fact that the Atlanta Thrashers and Chicago Blackhawks are the two teams that have given up 51. Then again, the New York Islanders have also given up 50, and few people are giving them much of a chance to make the playoffs, so read into that stat whatever you will.
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