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(SportsNetwork.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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Patrick Robinson Jersey .com) - A pair of programs shooting for their 10th win of the season get together at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, as the NC State Wolfpack tangle with 22nd-ranked West Virginia during the challenge round of the Gotham Classic.SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Texas Rangers say ace Yu Darvish has no structural damage in his stiff neck but will likely begin the season on the disabled list. Darvish was examined Wednesday by Dr. Keith Meister in Dallas. The right-hander will start a throwing program this weekend and wont need any injections. Rangers general manager Jon Daniels says he expects Darvish will be put on the 15-day DL. The Rangers open Monday at home against Philadelphia. "I would think so, yes," Daniels said. "Thats kind of where its headed. Were looking at 10 days already. He will play catch Saturday and if he continues to improve, then well put a plan together from there." "Thats going to be two weeks. Hes not going to ready to break. Its a relief thats its positive news from the exam," he said. Darvish led the majors in strikeouts last year. With him out, Tanner Scheppers will start the season opener. Scheppers will be making his first big league start after 115 relief appearances. "Scheppers is making his first big league start on opening day," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Hes profiled as a No. 1 kind of guy. The innings he pitched last year were under a lot of pressure and I think he can handle the pressure that goes along with opening day." The Rangers said Nick Martinez will be their No. 5 starter to begin the season. He has pitched in just five games above Class A. Martin Perez will start the second game and Robbie Ross the third and Joe Saunders the fourth, giving the Rangers four left-handers to start the season. None of the five was in the Texas rotation to start last year. Martinez, a right-hander, was not even in the big league camp. He finished last season 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA with Double-A Frisco. He was 12-7 with a 2.50 ERA last year between Myrtle Beach and Frisco. "Martinez gives us an opportunity," Washington said. "He has the stuff to pitch at the major league level. I think its on us to make certain to keep him in the mental state that he needs to be in. I think he can go out there and hold that spot down until we get Colby (Lewis) and Harry ((Matt Harrison) back.dddddddddddd" Harrison, an 18-game winner in 2012, is rehabbing from a neck injury. Derek Holland will start the season on the DL because of knee surgery and Lewis is recovering from forearm and hip issues. "We, maybe not you, but we feel confident that we are going to be competitive and are going to win some ballgames," he said. The 23-year-old Martinez, 23, was an 18th-round pick in 2011 out of Fordham. "Weve had a number of injuries to our pitching staff," Daniels said. "Its obviously a little quicker than we anticipated with Nick. Given the injuries and looking at our options, we had the most confidence in Nick. There was an opportunity for someone to seize it." "As an organization, we feel Nicks the right guy for that opportunity," he said. "Nicks got three solid pitches, four really, plus command and has tremendous makeup. Hes an athlete, a shortstop-second baseman in college. Hes been durable. Hes smart. Hes poised. He attacks the strike zone." The Rangers made a series of roster moves. They signed right-hander Scott Baker, who was released by Seattle, to a Triple-A Round Rock contract. The 32-year-old Baker has a 63-48 record with a 4.14 ERA in 160 big league games. Texas claimed two players off waivers, getting infielder Donnie Murphy from the Cubs and right-hander Seth Rosin from the Dodgers. Rosin is a Rule 5 draft pick and must remain on the 25-man major league roster all season or be offered back to Philadelphia. Murphy can play second base, shortstop and third. The Rangers were in the market for a second baseman with Jurickson Profar out 10 to 12 weeks with a torn muscle in his right shoulder. The 31-year-old has played in 290 major league games in eight seasons with Kansas City, Oakland, Miami and the Chicago Cubs. He spent most of last season with Triple-A Iowa, hitting .265. The Rangers also released right-hander Tommy Hanson rather than guaranteeing his $500,000 salary, which would have increased to $2 million when the season started. Hanson was 0-2 with a 6.43 ERA in four exhibition games. 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