Ilya Bryzgalov picked up a shutout last Saturday only hours after being claimed on waivers by the Phoenix Coyotes, the first team that had a shot at the ex-Anaheim backup. While there is a healthy debate among scouts whether Bryzgalov could be a legitimate No. 1 (on a team other than rebuildi...
Brian Burke replaced as Ducks' GM TORONTO — Brian Burke is out as general manager of the Anaheim Ducks. Burke, 53, had spent time considering a contract extension that would have kept him with the NHL team beyond this season. Super Swede Sundin skates with the Canucks
With a Conn Smythe-winning goalie (Jean-Sebastien Giguere) and two Norris Trophy winning defenders (Niedermayer, Chris Pronger) anchoring the back end, Anaheim is well positioned to defend its title. And they understand how they must defend it.
Woe is Southern California. Meet the saviors of Southern California sports: your Anaheim Ducks! videoBrotherly love June 6: Ducks captain Scott Niedermayer says handing the Stanley Cup to his brother Rob the highlight of his career.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In-form center Ryan Getzlaf has signed a five-year contract extension with Stanley Cup champions the Anaheim Ducks, the team said on Tuesday. We are extremely pleased to sign Ryan to a long-term deal," Ducks general manager Brian Burke said in a statement. View Lar...
Pronger, who has a memory like an elephant, hasn't forgotten, although he shrugged it off on Saturday as just another battle in the wake of the Edmonton Oilers' 3-1 Game 1 victory over the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in their best-of-seven Western Conference final. Selanne.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Compliments don't come easy to Anaheim Ducks coach Randy Carlyle. Interestingly, in the what-goes-around, comes-around world of the NHL, Carlyle is now coaching Teemu Selanne, the popular 35-year-old right winger aiming to win his first Stanley Cup after a 15-year c...
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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Anaheim Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer is looking forward to arriving at work on time next season. Niedermayer informed Ducks GM Brian Burke on Thursday that he will fulfill the final year of his contract and skate with the team during the 2008-2009 season.
Thanks, Kevin Lowe! Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Is Brian Burke a Be-Leaf-er? I'm pretty mixed on Burke. In his first 2 years everything he touched turned to gold. Very gold obviously. He also inherited as you said Rob Niedermayer and Getzlaf and Perry.
Burke spent the off-season figuring out how to replace Selanne, who along with the star defenseman Scott Niedermayer, is still deciding whether to retire. To fill Selanne’s forward spot, Burke signed the notoriously combative Todd Bertuzzi as a free agent.
Exhibit A: Roger Clemens un-retired for the second time to pitch about half a season for the Houston Astros in 2006 and did it again last year with the New York Yankees at the age of 45. After the 2006-07 NHL season, Scott Niedermayer, 34, and Teemu Selanne, 37, of the Anaheim Ducks skated off i...
Teemu Selanne made it official today that he would be joining Team Finland for the 2008 IIHF World Hockey Championship in Halifax and Quebec City. The Anaheim Ducks forward should have plenty of energy left after the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, considering his team had a early first round ex...
Defenceman Scott Niedermayer is leaving New Jersey after 12 seasons. (AP File Photo) Niedermayer was courted by several clubs, reportedly the Calgary Flames, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks. The Columbus Blue Jackets locked in goaltender Martin Prusek f...
The Ducks were a wounded lot, playing another game without eminent defenceman Chris Pronger, blue-liner Francois Beauchemin and goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere. Instead, Teemu Selanne jumped on a Bergeron giveaway and turned it into a 1-0 lead.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Finance presented the central government budget proposal for 2008, which enforces a 1% spending freeze. Hmm, guess they’ve read Kotter’s eight steps to change management, where step one is to create a sense of urgency for changes.
Two years ago, when Edmonton was on a tear and headed for a Stanley Cup meeting with the Carolina Hurricanes, Wilson's San Jose Sharks were one of the Oilers' Western victims. One afternoon, anticipating the ear-splitting din that no doubt would greet the hometown Oilers that evening, he...
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The Anaheim Ducks simply destroyed the Ottawa Senators in front of their own home ice in California, winning 6-2 to win their first ever Stanley Cup trophy in five games. We never heard from the Ottawa Senators again as Stanley found a new home in Anaheim, California.
In the 2008 NHL Western Conference Finals, the Red Wings faced a more resilient and somewhat stubborn opponent in the Dallas Stars. But… The Anaheim Mighty Ducks will be looking for their first ever Stanley Cup trophy once the 2007 NHL Stanley Cup Finals shift to Anaheim, California for Ga...
Detroit is once again, HOCKEY TOWN. Yep, the Anaheim Ducks are still MIGHTY. The Anaheim Mighty Ducks will be looking for their first ever Stanley Cup trophy once the 2007 NHL Stanley Cup Finals shift to Anaheim, California for Game 5 with the Ducks leading Ottawa, 3-1.
DETROIT -- It's rarely a good thing when there's a crowd around Detroit Red Wings defenceman Andreas Lilja after a game. Selanne's goal at 11:57 of OT gives the Ducks a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference final with a chance to close out the Wings at home Tuesday.
Ryan Getzlaf scored two goals, including a 190-foot shot into an empty net, and Jonas Hiller made 31 saves for the Anaheim Ducks in a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday night. Rob Niedermayer, Teemu Selanne and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks, who have earned 17 of a possib...
Defenceman Lubomir Visnovsky's power-play goal early in the third period lifted the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks Wednesday night in California. Edmonton has also won four of its last six contest versus the Ducks at the Honda Center.
There were plausible reasons for the slow start. There was the championship hangover, a season opener in London, England, as well as injuries to goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, forward Samuel Paulsson, and defenceman Mathieu Schneider.
“Our goal was to get at least one here,” Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere said. “Now we have home ice and we have to take advantage of it.” Game 3 is Tuesday night in Anaheim. Ducks coach Randy Carlyle certainly wasn’t apologizing.
Ilya Bryzgalov posted his second consecutive shutout Friday night when Anaheim opened the Western Conference semifinals with a 5-0 rout of Colorado. Teemu Selanne helped provide the offensive punch, with a goal and two assists against his former Avalanche teammates.
Star defenceman Scott Niedermayer, who is still trying to decide whether he'll return to the Anaheim Ducks for the 2007-08 NHL season or retire, was officially suspended Tuesday by the Stanley Cup champions, general manager Brian Burke confirmed in a conference call.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Anaheim Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer is in two minds over his playing future. A three-times Stanley Cup winner with the New Jersey Devils, Niedermayer captained the Ducks to their first trophy in June.
Niedermayer got to hoist the Stanley Cup for the fourth time earlier this year, and won his first Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP. The NHL title was the first for the Ducks, but Niedermayer had played on three Cup champions with New Jersey before coming to Anaheim in 2005.
Until then, Burke is a special advisor to new Ducks' GM Bob Murray, who worked for Burke in both Anaheim and Vancouver. If we can assume that neither Ken Holland nor Lou Lamoriello is going to abandon the Detroit Red Wings or New Jersey Devils for the lure of Toronto, the Maple Leafs can't do an...
In fact, as of Thursday, only one player has been traded all season -- Brian Sutherby from the Capitals to Anaheim for a 2009 second-round pick. The only other significant body to move was goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, waived by Burke and picked up by Phoenix. View Larger ImageDucks general manage...
My kids wanted me to come back for the free bubble gum in the dressing room,'' revealed Scott Niedermayer. After two practices,'' sighed goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, "he was making us look bad again out there. It is,'' agreed Giguere, "no ordinary situation.
2007 Stanley Cup Finals Anaheim Ducks coach Randy Carlyle doesn't want to look past the next game in his team's march toward the Stanley Cup, so he isn't about to give any consideration to which of his players might earn the playoff MVP award.
The Ducks become the first California team to win the Stanley Cup and the first west coast-based team to win it since the Victoria Cougars in 1925. Ducks captain Scott Niedermayer won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs.
Fifty-two seconds later, Robidas made a great skating play around Ducks defenseman Mathieu Schneider near the right-wing boards, cut to the net, and fed a crashing Stu Barnes, who one-timed the puck past Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere. ROB NIEDERMAYER OUT
FOILED AGAIN: Ducks center Rob Niedermayer, left, tries to redirect the puck toward the net as Colorado Avalanche center Joe Sakic, center, and goalie Jose Theodore cover the net in the third period of the Avalanche's 1-0 victory. Montreal at Ducks
The Anaheim Mighty Duck beat Dallas Stars' netminder Marty Turco at 1:44 of overtime to lift his underdog squad to a 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal. Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 29 shots for the Mighty Ducks.
Corey Perry HighlightsFrom NHL.com: Ducks Get Their Man "I really wanted to stay in Anaheim. That’s home now and I didn’t want to leave there. It’s a great place to play hockey and it just shows how well that organization is run. You can’t ask to play for a better organization than the Anaheim Duc...
NHL » NHL Northwest » Edmonton Oilers Lowe-Blow: Brian Burke's Rubber Duck Stolen By Oilers GM, Feud Continues (Humor) EDMONTON, Alta. — Edmonton Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe has struck back again at Brian Burke. However, Brian Burke surprised the media when asked for comment.
That's because Burke inherited a team that had a high-end goalie in Jean-Sebastien Giguere and was loaded with young talents like Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, Andy McDonald Chris Kunitz and Dustin Penner, who were drafted or discovered and developed by the regime of his predecessor Brya...
Email: More news Randy Carlyle Morning Skate Press Conference Apr 10, 2008, 2:54 PM EDT Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle spoke to the media during a press conference at Honda Center following Thursday's morning skate before Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Da...
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Randy Carlyle, who coached the Anaheim Ducks to the Stanley Cup championship in 2007, signed a two-year extension Wednesday. The Ducks finished second in the Pacific Division and fourth in the Western Conference with a 47-27-8 record and 102 points before being elimina...
The Bucks logo, however isn’t half bad. I’m fond of the Bucks new logo, the slight changes add just enough. The new Ducks logo leaves a lot to be desired, although its better than the Mighty Ducks previous logo. Unless of course, it is Duck Season. Oh my. Oh my.
The captain of the Anaheim Ducks was named to the NHL's All-Rookie Team in 1992-93, is a three-time All-Star, captured Olympic Gold playing for Team Canada in 2001-02, has won the Stanley Cup on four occasions (1994-95, 1999-2000, 2002-03, 2006-07), was named the league's best defense...
Now, the Sedins and company will face the daunting task of penetrating a tough Anaheim Ducks defence — led by Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger — in a best-of-seven NHL Western Conference semifinal. Talk about a difference in styles," Canucks defenceman Willie Mitchell told the V...
The Ducks had collected only one point from their last six games, but Jean-Sebastien Giguere recorded his third shutout of the season and the 29th of his career to condemn the Islanders to their fifth straight loss. — The Washington Capitals rallied for a 4-3 overtime road win over the Co...
Brian Burke is taking on a new challenge as a general manager, but it doesn't involve him leaving his position with the Anaheim Ducks. Burke, the executive vice-president and general manager of the Ducks, led the team to the 2007 Stanley Cup championship, and is widely considered one of th...
Brian Burke is out as the general manager of the Anaheim Ducks. Burke said he didn't relish leaving the Ducks. Burke, 52, joined the Ducks in June 2005 after a six-year stint as president and GM of the Vancouver Canucks, and helped build Anaheim's 2007 Stanley Cup championship team.