by Brian Kennedy | Nov 4, 2019 | Anaheim Ducks, Chicago Blackhawks, Homepage, NHL
The Anaheim Ducks have played 2,000 games as a franchise. Ryan Getzlaf has appeared in exactly half of those, a record he achieved on Sunday night at home against Chicago. Memorable moments: raising the Stanley Cup after the 2006-07 season, his first full campaign. A...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 3, 2019 | Chicago Blackhawks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
As a misread metaphor, Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) might have been better used for the LA Kings than the Anaheim Ducks as each team used the motif to promote its weekend games. The festival honors and celebrates the dead with “offrendas”—altars decorated to...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 2, 2019 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, Vancouver Canucks
You might almost not recognize the Anaheim Ducks, if you dropped in from anytime around 2017 and saw them play the Vancouver Canucks Friday night at Honda Center. This in a game which came on the Mexican Day of the Dead, duly celebrated with, amongst other things, a...
by Brian Kennedy | Sep 25, 2019 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Leagues, NHL, San Jose Sharks
It was a bit of a scrappy affair, a good game for John Gibson, and a more offensive game for the Ducks than the one on the night prior as they beat San Jose 4-1 on Tuesday night. There was one fight, early, but also a nasty play when Dalton Prout, one of the only two...
by Brian Kennedy | Sep 24, 2019 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
It was Kings-Ducks Monday night in the first Freeway Faceoff of the year at Staples Center. Well, the unofficial first. It’s not a Faceoff, official-like, until the regular season. The fans turned up in OK numbers, especially those in the upper bowl. The press box was...