by Brian Kennedy | Jan 12, 2022 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
No easy test, the Pittsburgh Penguins. Not with you-know-who (Evgeni Malkin) back in the lineup for the first time this year, and especially not when that same person scores two of four goals and almost gets an empty net marker to complete the hat trick. He...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 10, 2022 | Anaheim Ducks, Detroit Red Wings, Homepage, NHL
When a monkey wearing a diaper drops the ceremonial first puck of a hockey game, you know you’re in for a show. The Anaheim Ducks celebrated Anaheim Angels night with just such an occurrence, and the little dude threw the puck right down flat on the ice between the...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 9, 2022 | Anaheim Ducks, Detroit Red Wings, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, NHL
Has the Great Compression begun? That’s got to be a question that is starting to occur to West Coast hockey fans as teams battle a tight race for the Wild Card positions in the Conference. This is aided by the observation that at the very least, Anaheim is ...
by Brian Kennedy | Dec 4, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Homepage, Leagues, NHL
Calgary didn’t exactly romp through Los Angeles on Thursday night in the first of a SoCal back-to-back, but Darryl Sutter was the coach who said “It’s a 3-2 league” a few years ago when he coached in Cali, and that was the score by which his second-time-new team, the...
by Brian Kennedy | Dec 2, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL
The Anaheim Ducks love to make things exciting. Take for example Wednesday night in Anaheim with Vegas in town. They kept the pace even and the score 0-0 through one period. Then they exploded in the second, scoring four goals while allowing one, to appear to be...
by Brian Kennedy | Dec 1, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
It would have been advisable for the Kings to beat that Ducks Tuesday night. After all, they had two games in hand, and they came into the game having gone 1-3-1 in their prior five games, but winning the last of those, against Ottawa, 4-2. All of these contests, by...
