Finnish Flash strikes again

The 27-year old, native of Finland, earned that nickname in his rookie season 1992-93, when he set the new rookie scoring record with 76 goals. He shared the goal scoring title with Alexander Mogilny.

This season started slowly for Selanne amidst the hoopla surrounding Paul Kariya's absence.Disney and Kariya hadn't agreed on a contract leading to his holdout.

Now, with a month later, Kariya is still not there but Teemu is running on all cylinders again. He has a 10-game scoring streak going into Monday's game against San Jose, which is a longest streak in the NHL since 1992-93 season when Mario Lemieux had a 12-game scoring streak.

Not surprisingly the Ducks are winning games now. They have lost only two games in the last ten games and have won three straight.

It seems that Selanne is more relaxed now, altough he says he misses Kariya. Maybe he doesn't feel that he has to carry the whole team on his shoulders anymore.

Selanne scored a natural hat trick in the first period of Monday night's loss against the Sharks. His goal-scoring streak is now 11 games.

Selanne streak ends

Selanne's streak was two games short of Charlie Simmer's 13-game streak, set in 1979-80, which is the longest streak in the NHL's modern era.