Getzlaf 'pissed off' after Ducks suffer 7th straight home loss

Ryan Getzlaf has had enough.

The Anaheim Ducks captain vented Wednesday night after his club managed only 13 shots on goal in a 5-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues, its seventh consecutive defeat on home ice.

"I'm pissed off, and I'm frustrated, and it's really, really frustrating to understand that our group's in a playoff race still after everything, and we can't come out and compete hard around our net, around their net, and (that we) do things like we did (Wednesday night)," Getzlaf told reporters postgame.

The veteran center added that the notion that the team can't consistently compete is unprecedented in his Ducks tenure.

"Never had it in 14 years here," he said. "Never had that feeling that we're not going to compete on a daily basis. We've had three-, four-game stretches where things didn't go our way and maybe we didn't have the group that we wanted, but never for a consistent period like this have I (felt) this."

The Ducks dropped 12 straight games before shutting out the Minnesota Wild last week, and they followed up that victory with a win over the New Jersey Devils, but then they were blanked by the New York Islanders prior to being dismantled by the Blues.

However, as Getzlaf mentioned, Anaheim is still in the playoff hunt, sitting one point behind the Colorado Avalanche for the second Western Conference wild-card spot, albeit with one more game played and four fewer regulation or overtime wins.