What Year Is It Again?

What Year Is It Again?

What year is this? Lou Lamoriello is standing behind the New Jersey bench coaching a team that is playing Scott Gomez against Ilya Bryzgalov in net—for the Anaheim Ducks. If you said 2006, you’d be right. And wrong. Because that was the oddity of the game featuring...
Final Flash from Finland

Final Flash from Finland

The Ducks retired Selanne’s number, as I earlier reported at IH, but here are some more details about the evening.   The event was attended by a number of dignitaries, including the Ducks’ owners, the Samuelis, and Gary Bettman, who was roundly booed whenever his...
Once In a Generation

Once In a Generation

It’s hard to overestimate the impact a player like Teemu Selanne has on the hockey culture of a city. But I’m pretty sure that if you measured the temperature (not literally) of Winnipeg and Anaheim today, you’d get an idea of how much he’s meant to both places....
Ducks Best B’s

Ducks Best B’s

The twins were split up! That was the big news on Saturday as the Ducks went down 5-1 against San Jose after dropping a weak and uncoordinated effort to Chicago on Friday last. The reason Getzlaf and Perry were playing on different lines? To get them going, of course....
Once In a Generation

Bourque Settling In With the Ducks

When Bob Murray clicked his phone shut and finalized the trade of Bryan Allen to the Montreal Canadiens, Rene Bourque instantly became the Ducks’ highest paid left winger, cashing a little over three million dollars a year (set to expire in the summer of 2016)....