by Brian Kennedy | Feb 7, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, San Jose Sharks
Patrick Marleau tied Jaromir Jagr for games played, third overall, at 1733 on Saturday night. This happened when he took his first shift in the Ducks-San Jose game which kicked off at 7pm local time in an empty Honda Center. Other story lines? The Ducks were still...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 6, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, San Jose Sharks
It’s not often the Anaheim Ducks score four goals. It is rather familiar that they can come from an early deficit, because they so often start as if the game can begin without them. So when they do both of those things, they should win. Not when playing the San...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 3, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Lots of storylines existed around the Kings and Ducks, playing their first game against each other on Tuesday night in Los Angeles. The Kings had two Dmen out to injury. They also had a couple of guys sidelined by Covid protocol. The Kings had their purple and gold...
by Anthony Garofalo | Feb 1, 2021 | Boston Bruins, Homepage, NHL
It certainly was not easy, but Jakub Zboril has made it to the National Hockey League. Not only was a tumultuous path put in front of him—some of it by his own doing—and having had to put in a plethora of extra work, the young defenseman is now contributing as a...
by Angie Carducci | Feb 1, 2021 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Thursday in Boston, the Pittsburgh Penguins turned in a dud. A day after Jim Rutherford, the general manager who brought them two Stanley Cups and was actively working to try to help them try to win more, stunningly announced his resignation for personal reasons, the...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 31, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Leagues, NHL, St. Louis Blues
“Every minute of the game is important. It doesn’t matter if it’s the last minute, the middle minute, the first minute. They’re all critical,” said Ducks’ coach Dallas Eakins Saturday night. “There were a number of minutes when we were certainly not our best,” he ...