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Jiggy's future
Jean-Sebastien Giguere becomes an unrestricted free agent on July 1.

The 30-year-old goalie earned $3.99 million this season. That’s relatively cheap compared to Vancouver’s Robert Luongo and Dallas’ Marty Turco, who each made $6 million.

Giguere made 11 saves in the Ducks’ 6-2 victory Wednesday night that earned the team its first Stanley Cup. That could boost his price considerably when negotiations open this summer.

“I’d love to re-sign here,” he said before the game. “This is a team that’s going to be good for many years. You want to be part of a team like that.”

Giguere has personal reasons for wanting to stay. His son, born April 4, has a deformed right eye that needs medical attention.

“I’ve got my house here, I feel very comfortable around here and my son’s doctors are all around here,” he said. “There’s many reasons why I would want to sign here. Is it going to happen? Hey, I don’t have a magic ball.”

No practice
The Ottawa Senators didn’t practice Wednesday, keeping up a pattern they established during the first two games of the finals in Anaheim.

“They won’t give us the ice until 10:30 in the morning,” coach Bryan Murray said. “We asked them for ice time here. They said you can have 10:30.”

Murray agreed, then asked what time the Ducks were having their optional skate. He was told 9 a.m. or 9:30, so he proposed the Senators go at 7 a.m.

“They wouldn’t let us,” he said. “I thought the NHL would give that allowance to us, but that wasn’t the case. We would even go out with the officials this morning and play shinny, and they wouldn’t let us do that.”

Ice chips
The Ducks will celebrate with their fans outside Honda Center on Saturday night. Fans will receive free hot dogs, soft drinks and potato chips, along with free parking. ... The Ducks improved to 7-0 at home in Stanley Cup finals games and 8-0 at home in series-clinching games, including 4-0 this season. ... Scott Niedermayer was the only Ducks player who had previously won the Cup, making Anaheim the first team since the 1989 Calgary Flames to have one or no player with a title.

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