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After playing five straight overtime games and suffering a lopsided home defeat, the Anaheim Ducks are in need of a smooth victory. Adidas Gazelle Schweiz . Trips to Calgary have proved difficult in recent years, and the Flames team waiting for them Tuesday night isnt looking much like the Pacific Division pushovers they were a season ago. The Flames (11-6-2) have started a five-game homestand with back-to-back wins and are just two points behind the Ducks. Saturdays 4-2 win over Ottawa featured third-period goals from Markus Granlund, Josh Jooris and Lance Bouma. The trio finished with a goal and an assist each, and theres plenty of confidence spreading through the team. Calgary has won six of eight and scored at least four goals in each of its last eight victories. The Flames rank fifth with 3.05 goals per game after ranking 23rd (2.46) last season, and improved to 8-0-2 when entering the third tied or ahead. I think we just stuck to Calgary Flames hockey, Jooris told the teams official website. We are hard to play against. We had commitment coming back. We shut plays down and started from the net out tonight. I think we just had good will out there. We wanted to win this one and it showed. Anaheim led the league in scoring last season (3.21), but has dipped to 20th (2.58) this season. Jonas Hiller was a beneficiary of that scoring before moving to Calgary in the offseason and could face his former team for the first time. Hiller dropped his first two games with the Flames but has improved since, going 8-2-1 with a 2.07 goals-against average over 11 games. He could face his former backup, Frederik Andersen, who allowed four goals on 15 shots against Florida and was pulled for the second time in three games. Andersen has posted a 4.42 GAA in that stretch after starting 7-1-2 with a 1.56 GAA. Andersens only experience in Calgary came in relief of Hiller during a 7-2 loss on March 12, allowing four goals on 20 shots. Anaheim remains without defenseman Francois Beauchemin, who has missed four games with mumps, while forward Tim Jackman missed the la The Western Conference-leading Ducks (11-4-4) have started to get healthy, but that didnt seem to matter in Sundays 6-2 loss to Florida. Corey Perry returned from a five-game absence due to the mumps and Kyle Palmieri played for the first time this season after recovering from an ankle injury, but Anaheim fell to 1-1-4 in the two weeks since Perry last played. I felt better than I expected, but it didnt go the way we planned for anybody, said Perry, who had 11 goals and four assists in 13 games before becoming ill. Perry has 16 points in his last 14 games against the Flames, while linemate Ryan Getzlaf has 15 in his last 13 and wants to see improvement as the Ducks visit Calgary and Vancouver. Overall, were just embarrassed, Getzlaf said. Its embarrassing to play like that in our building. Top to bottom, we werent good (Sunday). We need to recognize that and get better. We have to learn. You have to get wins in your building, especially when youre heading out to some tough buildings. Emotionally, we need to get ready for Tuesday. The Ducks won three of four matchups last season, but the series has gone heavily in favor of the home team. The Ducks have won 18 straight in Anaheim while the Flames have won 16 of the last 23 in Calgary. st game with the flu. Forward Devante Smith-Pelly has been sidelined for two with an upper-body injury. The Flames confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that forward David Jones would miss the contest with an upper-body injury. Devin Setoguchi drafts into the line-up in his place. Nmd Schweiz Outlet . The move is retroactive to Aug. 1. Hosmer was originally hit on the hand in the first inning of a July 20 loss to Boston. He has played most of the time since, but missed a few contests due to the injury, then departed Thursdays win over the Twins and had tests that revealed the fracture. Adidas Ultra Boost Schweiz .com) - The Buffalo Bills will return to the friendly confines of Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday when they welcome the upstart Cleveland Browns to town. http://www.nmdschweizkaufen.ch/eqt-outlet.html . With timely hitting and good pitching, the Marlins are one win away from sweeping the slumping Houston Astros. SAITAMA, Japan -- European champions Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte received 69.70 points to finish first in the short program. Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo, Ont., trailed by half a point. Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France were third on 68.20. "This is definitely where we want to be, in the attacking position of the top spot, because we feel that we put great work into this season especially and we want to end on a high note and put out two solid performances," said Poje. Torontos Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., were 10th with 59.42 points. Alexandra Paul of Midhurst, Ont., and Mitchell Islam of Barrie, Ont., scored 57.68 points for 11th place heading into Saturdays free dance. Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev, the top-ranked Russians, were forced to withdraw after Soloviev injured his groin in the morning practice. Defending champions and Olympic gold medallists Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States were not taking part. The ice dance concludes on Saturday with the free dance. Japanese teenager Yuzuru Hanyu came back with a brilliant free skate to become the first man in 12 years on Friday to win the Olympic and world figure skating titles in the same year. The 19-year-old Hanyu, who trailed compatriot Tatsuki Machida by nearly seven points after the world championships short program, produced a near-flawless free skate to finish with 282.59 points, just three-tenths of a point ahead of Machida. Javier Fernandez of Spain was third with 275.93. "That was very close," Hanyu said. "I work hard to become a skater who can always end with strong performances. I felt the responsibility to win the event." Hanyu fell twice during the free skate at the Sochi Olympics but had no falls on Friday. Skating to "Romeo and Juliet," he opened with a quad salchow and followed with a quad toeloop. His only deduction came onn the triple flip and he got extra points on five straight jumps. Adidas Eqt Schweiz. The mens Olympic-worlds double was last achieved by Alexei Yagudin in 2002. Machida captured his first major medal with a graceful performance to Stravinskis "Firebird." "I showed everything I have at this moment," Machida said. "I tried to perform without caring about the score or ranking but it got into my head and I had a really tough four minutes." Fernandez, who was fourth in Sochi, was deducted points when he singled a planned triple lutz. "I popped the triple lutz," Fernandez said. "And I didnt do my quad salchow triple toeloop combination, but still it was a good program even though Yuzuru did better than me." Maxim Kotvun of Russia was fourth followed by Jeremy Abbott of the United States. Canadian Patrick Chan, who had won the last three world titles, decided to skip this years competition. Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., was the top Canadian in 11th place. Its been a tough season for Reynolds, who struggled with ill-fitting skates for several months. "The whole season was a giant learning experience, and I can take from that knowing I can still skate my best even though Im not feeling even close to where Id like to be in terms of being comfortable and being ready, being prepared," said Reynolds. "What I can take away from this is that even if Im not feeling 100 per cent, I know that I can still do the job, and that should give me confidence when I do feel good." World junior champion Nam Nguyen of Toronto was 12th while Elladj Balde of Pierrefonds, Que., was 18th. "Skating in front of 20,000 plus people, its amazing," said the 15-year-old Nguyen. "Im not intimidated at all. Im very excited to skate for them. I love to hear them cheer for me. I just want them to skate with me." -- With files from The Canadian Press ' ' '

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