by Brian Kennedy | Apr 10, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Homepage
One team entered Friday night coming off a big 5-1 win, the other off an 8-3 loss. So one was saying “We gotta keep the momentum” and the other one “We need to turn things around.” The losers had been Colorado, the winners Anaheim, and here they were, in SoCal, to...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 5, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, Utah Hockey Club
The Anaheim Ducks took on the Colorado Avalanche Sunday evening in a game that, like all the remaining ones this year, meant less to the Ducks and a lot more to the opponent. At least things happened in somewhat spectacular fashion. The two teams have now played...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 3, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Utah Hockey Club
It was a bottom-four night in the Honda West as each of the teams which came into the night out of the playoffs was playing one of the other similar teams. Respectively, they were Arizona, on 37 points; LA, with 34; San Jose, also 34; and Anaheim, resting at 27. The...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 20, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, Utah Hockey Club
Two nights ago, it was all rainbows and puppies, as Dallas Eakins might have said. (If you’ve been following my coverage of the Anaheim team here at Inside Hockey, you get this.) The Ducks had won, in comeback fashion. They had seen a rookie play his first game and...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 19, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Utah Hockey Club
Arizona was in Anaheim Thursday night for the first of two games versus the Ducks. They didn’t have to do much to get the lead, because on two shots they had two goals, the second one going in at 7:07. Ryan Miller was in net, as he has been in three of the Ducks’...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 14, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, San Jose Sharks
Dallas Eakins said after Friday’s terrible loss to San Jose that he doesn’t like to make personnel decisions directly following a game. He likes to sleep on it. He did that, and came back Saturday with a lineup that inserted David Backes, Troy Terry, and Danton Heinen...
