by Brian Kennedy | Apr 18, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Nashville Predators, NHL
The Anaheim Ducks’ coach, Bruce Boudreau, was angry with his team after their loss to Nashville on Sunday night, miffed at the number of undisciplined penalties they had taken. The numbers were telling: six minors versus two for Nashville. Boudreau immediately pointed...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 16, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Inside Hockey, Nashville Predators, NHL
The stories going into the Nashville-Anaheim series: could the Ducks keep the two Nashville powerhouse D-men, Shea Weber and Roman Josi, off the board? Would their goalie, John Gibson, be better than Nashville’s Pekka Rinne? And would the Ducks’ league-topping PK and...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 1, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Nashville Predators
Nashville might have been tired coming into Sunday evening against the Ducks, but hey, they’d played at 1pm Saturday, so it was more than a 24-hour turnaround to Sunday’s 5pm start. And, given the percentages which say that goalies on the second half of a back-to-back...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 31, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators
For the first week of the season in LA, it looked, in the immortal words of Ernest Thayer, like “there was no joy in Mudville.” Nothing was going right, and the hockey team wasn’t winning. People were starting to ask if the Sutter era was over. How silly that was is...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 16, 2015 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Nashville Predators
The Ducks played Nashville late Sunday afternoon to determine which team would pull ahead of the other in what had been earlier in the day a four-way tie for the top spot in the NHL. The other two clubs knotted at 93 were the Rangers and Montreal, neither of whom...