Capacity Crowds No Longer the Norm

The crowd of 15,935 marked the fifth consecutive below-capacity crowd at the Pond, and the third smallest in club history. (The smallest was 15,386 against the New York Islanders on Oct. 10, 1993 in the franchise’s second game.)

Before the current stretch, the Ducks had a 40-game sellout streak and had crowds of 17,174 or more for 90 of the previous 93 home games.

“Is there a concern? There is always a concern when you don’t sell out,� team spokesman Bill Robertson said. “But we’re definitely not pushing the panic button.�

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One more footnote in the bizarre case of the troublesome nets at the Pond.

A shot by Colorado’s Joe Sakic went through the back of the net undetected Sunday, only to be credited as a goal after a super slow-motion video replay.

Goal judge Bill Bedsworth--whose day job is Superior Court judge--got a call this week from an accident reconstruction expert who has testified in his courtroom.

“He said he did some calculations. If a puck’s going 80 miles an hour, traveling at 1,408 inches a second, it would go through the net in 18/10,000ths of a second, and the human eye doesn’t work that fast,� Bedsworth said.

Got that?

“He’s a retired accident reconstruction expert,� Bedsworth said.