However after a rough start to the season where they lost six straight including 3 one-goal losses, the Griffs ended 2009 on a 4 and 3 run.

The one-goal decision over Johns Hopkins ended a string of one-goal losses.

"One of them was a one-goal loss, but the ability to keep four different opponents at one goal apiece, that's pretty good."

Canada held on to a one-goal loss tonight against the Unified Team, a result that was good enough for first place in the permutation-polluted world of Olympic ice hockey.

There were a few positive signs for the Rangers in their third consecutive one-goal loss.

Every game that we've lost has been a one-goal loss since Thanksgiving, with two empty-net goals mixed in there.

But even as a disappointing season winds to its close, no one in the Islander locker room was satisfied with a one-goal loss.

A year ago, the Islanders would have been ecstatic to come out of a road game with a hard-fought, one-goal loss to the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Another one-goal loss left Al Arbour, the Islanders's coach, wondering what to do next.

The previous two games, one-goal losses to Ottawa and Montreal, were filled with defensive lapses that embarrassed the players and angered the coach.