Wolves falter in playoff opener

Mighty Ducks 3

Wolves 2

The Wolves seemed to prefer a skate in the park to a fight in thealley Tuesday, losing 3-2 to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks in Game 1 oftheir best-of-three AmericanHockey League playoff series at AllstateArena.

Derek MacKenzie gave the Wolves a 2-1 lead at 8:32 of the thirdperiod, but Antti-Jussi Niemi and Adam Edinger scored at 15:01 and16:52, respectively, to give the Mighty Ducks the victory. The Wolvesmust win Game 2 tonight to avoid elimination.

The Mighty Ducks' Travis Brigley went around defenseman DallasEakins to open the scoring at 6:44 of the first period, butdefenseman Kurtis Foster got it back for the Wolves at 4:43 …