Anaheim Ducks

By Karen Francis The Ducks now head to Washington, D.C., for their personal tour with President George Bush and a ceremony honoring their Stanley Cup win in June. Today was Super Tuesday in the political spectrum, but for the Ducks, it really was super. Selanne returned and contributed and the Ducks find thei...

By Karen Francis The Ducks finally made the trade that had been anticipated since Scott Niedermayer announced he was not retiring last Wednesday.  General manager Brian Burke took his time and weighed his options.  In the end, Andy McDonald was sent to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for veteran Doug Weight...

By Karen Francis Up to this evening the story has been the Ducks slumping.  This evening the Ducks have a new distraction - Scott Niedermayer will be returning to the Ducks this year and will begin skating tomorrow.  Clearly the news of his anticipated return gave the team a boost. Before the players can deal...

By Karen Francis Geoff Platt, who was recently acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets for Aaron Rome and Clay Wilson, was recalled to Anaheim. Platt has earned at least a point in each of the nine games played since joining the Portland Pirates. After losing three out of the past four games and being outscor...

By Karen Francis The Ducks had their third loss in a row to the Phoenix Coyotes last night and their third shutout in twelve games. At 4-7-1, they have a whopping 9 points, are 4th in the Pacific Division and 12th in the Western Conference. Ouch. The problem has not been a lack of work ethic, which coach Randy Carl...

By Karen Francis The Ducks did not start the second period with more energy than the first. Instead, the Ducks looked flat and Dallas took advantage. Mike Ribeiro scored the second goal on a delayed penalty at 7:48. Jere Lehtinen followed that up by putting a shot past Giguere at 10:03 to make it 3-0. Coach Randy...

By Karen Francis Tomorrow there is a practice at 11:00am and at 2:00pm the Ducks will get to visit 130 Regent Street, where the Stanley Cup was originally purchased. The Cup gets to come along as well, sporting the newly engraved names of the 2007 Champions. Thursday the Ducks will make themselves available...

By Karen Francis So it is only one more point earned towards clinching a playoff spot. Two more to go to clinch. We can do it one point at a time or we can take two points from Dallas on Friday. There are still a ton of possibilities for how the division race plays out. In a strange scheduling, Dallas plays Columbus th...

By Karen Francis Instead of Curtis Sanford in goal, Jason Bacashihua got the nod from former Kings coach Andy Murray as a reward for strong recent play.   Bacashihua definitely played well throughout the game.  The Ducks power play continued to click well and Scott Niedermayer  and Andy McDonald both scor...

By Karen Francis With the two points earned, the Ducks are now four points ahead of Pacific Division rivals the Stars (whom we play once more in Dallas) and the Sharks (whom we play once more at home). Winning the Pacific Division is crucial for good standing to start the playoffs. Every point is critical at th...

By Michael Bourdon Notes: Dominik Hasek earned his 7th shutout of the season, and his 75th of his career. Neither team scored on the power play. After Dustin Penner was “benched” for the majority of the last Ducks game, he was back with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry on the second line, moving Brad May back to the 4t...

By Michael Bourdon Notes: Fan favorite, George Parros was not dressed. Center Tim Brent played on a line with Shawn Thornton and Brad May in the first period after being scratched for a few games, but got little ice time as the game went on. Brad May filled in with Getzlaf and Perry, as Penner sat on the bench. Ric Ja...

By Karen Francis As I sat watching the beginning of the Ducks/Coyotes game last night, I saw the first sign that things were not going to be good.  Brian Hayward was touting the record of Ilya Bryzgalov against the Coyotes - a perfect 7-0 record, great goals against.  Our record against the Coyotes for the pas...

By Michael Bourdon The Kings opened up the scoring about two minutes into the first period when Michael Cammalleri potted his 30th goal of the season against netminder J.S. Giguere. With the Ducks down one, it was time for the grinders to do their work and play physical, hard, and get some energy in the building. T...

By Karen Francis The scoring continued for the Ducks and their power play continues to be red hot of late.  Corey Perry, who has finally regained his scoring touch of late, made it 2-0 on a power play opportunity with a nice spin-o-rama move that got the puck behind Khabibulin.  Scott Niedermayer and Francoi...

By Karen Francis First, you don’t have more turnovers than a bakery. With a total of 15 turnovers to the Blue Jackets 5, the Ducks couldn’t have been kinder to their opponents if they wrapped the puck up and tied it with a ribbon. Selanne, ever the charitable minded Finn, had a team high of 3 giveaways. In fact, 11...

By Karen Francis On a hot winter day that saw temperatures approach 90 degrees in Anaheim, the Ducks continued their hot streak on the ice.  While a nasty brushfire burned nearby hillsides, the Ducks burned an equally hot Canucks team.   The 4 - 2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks saw the Ducks winning stre...

By Karen Francis The Anaheim Ducks are in the midst of an eight game home stand at the Honda Center. On the surface, the Ducks should have it easy. Included in those eight games are five teams who will be watching the playoffs, not participating in them. While it is easy to say that the test of the Ducks is against t...