by Brian Kennedy | Mar 4, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks, Vancouver Canucks
Anaheim, CA—The Ducks’ and Kings’ arenas are maybe 30 miles apart, though nobody speaks of miles here. Rather, it’s time. But on the weekends, particularly a sleepy Sunday where there’s no NFL or MLB drawing fans towards stadia, and thus onto the 5 freeway, a mile a...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 3, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks
Bye bye, Frank. What a shame that your year of excellence playing in Anaheim has to result in a move elsewhere, but that’s what it looks like is going to happen. So goes the mourning song of Anaheim Ducks fans, who have been lucky to observe Frank Vatrano’s scoring...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 27, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks, Nashville Predators
Anaheim, CA – Nashville isn’t quite there, yet. Where? In the premier group of teams who will make the playoffs with reasonable expectations of a run. They did hold a wildcard spot as of Sunday evening and their game with the Ducks in SoCal, by two points over both...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 25, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles, CA—Two nights prior to this one, more than two dozen scouts showed up to watch the LA Kings take on, and lose to, the Nashville Predators. Now here it was, Saturday, and everybody seemed to have better things to do. Just three pro scouts were in the usual...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 22, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks, New York Rangers
Anaheim—Sunday, while the real game was being played (Oh come on, you know that the Bills and the Chiefs were contesting an NFL game to survive into the final four next week), the Ducks managed to perpetuate the frustration of the New York Rangers, carried over from a...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 6, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim–Are the Ducks finally getting to where they can hang with better teams? Their recent games, all losses, have been close, so that was the hope. It was also the early appearance of things Friday night with the Jets in town. The story was what it has been:...
