(SportsNetwork. Wholesale Puma Shoes Free Shipping .com) - The Anaheim Ducks will try to begin December with a third consecutive victory when they visit the Minnesota Wild for Fridays Western Conference battle at Xcel Energy Center. The Ducks ended November on a brief 0-2 slide, but the Pacific Division leaders kicked off the new month with home wins over Boston and Philadelphia. Anaheim hopes to keep heading in the right direction tonight, when it begins a road-heavy portion of its schedule. The Ducks are playing two straight and seven of their next eight as the guest, beginning with Fridays tilt in St. Paul. The Ducks, who are tied with Vancouver for the division lead, have a 7-3-2 road record this season but have lost three of their four away from Orange County. After edging the Bruins 3-2 in regulation on Monday, the Ducks were pushed to the shootout phase by Philadelphia. Jakob Silfverberg and Corey Perry scored in the tiebreaker to lift Anaheim to the 5-4 win. Anaheim rallied from 3-1 down to eventually grab a 4-3 edge on Patrick Maroons goal with 5:02 left in regulation. However, the Flyers would answer back as Wayne Simmonds scored with 1.8 seconds left in the third to even the score and send the game to overtime. Maroon and Ryan Getzlaf each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who have won five of their last seven games. Frederik Andersen made 31 saves before stopping two of Philadelphias three shooters in the tiebreaker. The Flyers held their biggest lead after R.J. Umberger scored to make it 3-1 at 10:47 of the second period. Getzlaf, however, would tally just 28 seconds later to make it a one-goal game again. We werent happy with the 3-1 deficit, but we thought we were in it, said Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau. It was a good thing Getzlaf scored quickly after they made it 3-1 so we didnt get a chance to get down any further. Andersen could get the start in net. His only career appearance against the Wild came on Oct. 17, when Andersen stopped 27-of-28 shots to help Anaheim record a 2-1 regulation win on home ice. The Ducks have won seven of the last eight meetings in this series and Minnesota has lost four straight encounters as the host. The Wild won in their last trip to the ice despite playing without top defenseman Ryan Suter, who is the latest Minnesota player to contract the mumps. Suter had played in every game since joining the Wild as a free agent in the summer of 2012, but had to sit out Wednesdays 2-1 home win over Montreal due to illness. The workhorse defenseman joins Keith Ballard, Jonas Brodin, Christian Folin and Marco Scandella as Minnesota players who have missed time this season due to the mumps. Sutter, who leads the NHL with over 29 minutes of ice time per contest, is questionable for tonight. Minnesota is on a three-game point streak (2-0-1) after edging the visiting Canadiens on Wednesday. Darcy Kuemper stopped 18 shots and Jason Pominville scored the game winner in the second period to help the Wild pick up the close victory. Jason Zucker also provided a first-period tally for the Wild, who have won three of their last five. Minnesotas season-long struggles on the power play continued Wednesday, as the team won despite going 0-for-5 with the man advantage. The Wild are ranked 29th in the league in power-play efficiency, and the home crowd let the club hear it on Wednesday. It doesnt matter. We beat arguably the best team in the Eastern Conference, said a defiant Wild forward Zach Parise when asked what he thought of the home fans booing the ineffective power play. You want us to score four power-play goals and lose? Kuemper could start again tonight and is 1-2-0 with a 2.38 GAA in his career against Anaheim. The Wild are playing the third part of a four-game homestand tonight and will close the residency Tuesday against the New York Islanders. 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Farrell practiced his motion, took a breath, released, and watched as the basketball bounced twice around the rim before it plopped through the net. The eighth-ranked Wildcats went wild, celebrating Farrells first point of the season like a game-winner, and not just the finishing touches of a 67-48 victory over Butler on Wednesday night. For a team that played about 30 minutes of basketball to forget, that moment of team bonding for the deepest of deep reserves was one to remember. "I love that," coach Jay Wright said. "Thats whats special about this team." The Wildcats (25-3, 13-2 Big East) survived one of their worst halves of the season to win for the ninth time in 10 games. They needed almost the first 10 minutes of the game to score 10 points, missed eight of their first nine 3-point attempts, and didnt have a player reach double digits in scoring until midway through the second half. "Youve got to find a way to grind against them," Wright said. "Ill take that." Darrun Hilliard and James Bell led them with only 11 points each and the Wildcats put up the kind of numbers that usually lead to a loss. Not against the lowly Bulldogs (12-16, 2-14). Butler was even worse, shooting only 26 per cent in the first half, and the Bulldogs lost their seventh straight game. The Wildcats had a small hot streak at the end of the first half, making 5 of 6 shots, to build enough of a cushion and slowly pull away. The Wildcats fell shy of their 79.9 points per game average and played for about 35 minutes looking nothing like the team that has become one of the best in the Big East. Each team took turns trading clunkers and clangers in the first 10 minutes, one reason the Wildcats only led 10-4. With 6 minutes left in the half, the Bulldogs and Wildcats combined for only 26 points. And no, Bo Ryan wasnt coaching either of the teams. The Pavilion had all the atmosphere of an art museum on a sleepy Sunday morning, making this one feel mmore like a bad NBA preseason game than the final on-campus home game of the season. Cheap Puma Shoes Mens. Wright did let senior reserves Nick McMahon and Tony Chennault start -- though McMahon played only 20 seconds before he was benched for Ryan Arcidiacono. McMahon couldnt have been worse than the rest of the offence. Villanova missed 12 of its first 15 shots, most from 3-point range. The Wildcats were determined to keep shooting 3s until they fell. Bell and Arcidiacono did hit two straight near the end of the first half for a 28-15 lead. Butlers Kellen Dunham buried the shot of the game with a high banker for 3 that cut it to 34-20 at halftime. He led Butler with 12 points. Hard to believe these teams needed overtime before Villanova pulled out the win in their first matchup. "We didnt have it tonight," coach Brandon Miller said. "When you keep getting the results you dont want, it weighs on you a little bit." Bell was the lone senior regular for the Wildcats and exchanged an emotional hug with Wright after he checked out for the final time. "It was tough," Bell said. "I dont see my mom that much. My dad works a lot, doesnt really get the chance to get down that much. That was probably the toughest part, seeing my mom crying. Other than that, it was time to play." Pick a stat in the first half and both teams probably wish the number could be wiped from the record book. Butler missed 8 of 10 3s; Nova missed 12 of 16. Butler had two starters who went scoreless in the half. The Wildcats shot 38 per cent from the field. But theres a reason the Wildcats have spent most of the season in the Top 25, and they showed why in the second half, going more than 25 minutes without a turnover during a 16-3 run that stretched the lead to 24 points. Butler scored six baskets in the first half, and didnt reach seven for a second-half total until there was 1:51 left. While the Wildcats are in the hunt for a top-three seed in the NCAA tournament, the Bulldogs need a shocking conference tournament championship to have any shot at returning for some March Madness. "This is a really good group to coach," Wright said. "Its been a pleasure all year. But it cant let that prevent us from driving them and them driving themselves to get better." ' ' '