(My Sportsbook) - For the third consecutive game, the Wild were not able to slide anything past Jean-Sebastien Giguere, as the Anaheim netminder recorded 35 saves for his third straight shutout to lead the Ducks to a 4-0 victory in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on Wednesday.

Dwayne Roloson stopped just 13 of his first 16 shots faced before being pulled in the second period for Manny Fernandez, who allowed one goal in 16 tries. Fernandez saw action for the first time since Game 1, when he got the start in net for Roloson, who had a slight groin strain.

Marian Gaborik fired six shots on goal, including a breakaway in the first period, but was held scoreless for the fourth straight game. Filip Kuba was on the ice for all four Duck goals and has a minus-seven rating in the series.

The Wild lost for just the third time in nine contests on the road in the playoffs. This was the fourth time overall this postseason that the club has been shut out, and the first to not occur on home ice.

Minnesota, in its inaugural postseason, now trails the series, 0-3, with Game 4 of the best-of-seven set coming up on Friday at the Pond in Anaheim. The Wild are 6-0 when facing elimination in the 2003 playoffs, and have outscored the opponents 25-11 in those matchups. Only the 1975 New York Islanders, with eight, have won more games when facing elimination in a single playoff year. Minnesota earlier became the first team in league history to climb from 3-1 series holes twice in the same playoff year (against Vancouver in the semis, and Colorado in the opening round).

Only two teams in NHL history have ever come back from 0-3 deficits in the playoffs to win a series. Most recently, the 1975 Islanders rallied to beat Pittsburgh in the quarterfinals, and, before that, the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs accomplished the feat against Detroit in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Minnesota has held the shooting edge against Anaheim in all three contests in the series, but have somehow managed to go 0-5 in this playoff year when doing so.

The Wild are the first team to go scoreless in the first three games of a playoff series since Detroit in 1945, against Toronto's Frank McCool.

The 3-year-old franchise is the sixth seed in the West, which is the lowest to host a conference final since 1994 when the league switched to conference rankings for the playoffs.

Despite his recent drought, Gaborik is still the NHL playoff scoring leader with 17 points. Sergei Zholtok has not scored in three straight tilts for the first time this postseason and is tied for second on the club with Wes Walz at 13 points apiece. Andrew Brunette is the only other double-digit scorer at 12, while Kuba is the club's top defenseman with eight points.

Minnesota was 0-for-4 with the extra skater last night and has been held without a goal on 12 chances in the series. The Wild are still the top team in this postseason on the power-play, with 15 tallies on 69 opportunities (21.7 percent).