by Brian Kennedy | May 11, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Homepage
Bruce Boudreau never thought it was going to be easy. After all, he was trying to do something that he’d never done before, which was eliminate another team to end round two. He’d only ever been eliminated before. When he thought his team was going to win, he jumped...
by Brian Kennedy | May 4, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Homepage
What was supposed to be different on Sunday night for Calgary: their goalie (Ramo instead of Hiller), a returned defenseman (Raphael Diaz—didn’t happen), Hudler and Ferland out due to injury (Ferland sat, Hudler played). And, of course, the results. Nothing changed in...
by Brian Kennedy | May 1, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Homepage
The Flames can’t win in Anaheim. That’s what the radio experts were saying on the afternoon of the first game of the two teams’ second-round series. And it was true. The Flames have not won in the regular season in Anaheim since January of 2004. None of the current...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 19, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Winnipeg Jets
The atmosphere in Honda Center was better on Saturday than it had been Thursday night. There seemed to be both more Jets fans and more vociferous Ducks fans, perhaps one being causal of the other. The Jets started fast. The hitting was intense. And then they took some...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 7, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh was just better for a couple of periods. That’s the story from Anaheim. And they didn’t rely on the guys you’d usually think to get it done. Instead, Patrick Hornqvist scored a pair of goals after Blake Comeau got the first one. That was all they’d need to...
