30 Sep
The Anaheim Ducks have announced that they have cut defenseman Brendan Mikkelson and forward Logan MacMillan. Mikkelson will report to Toronto of the AHL and MacMillan was assigned to Bakersfield of the ECHL.
These final two cuts bring the Ducks down to the NHL maximum 23-man roster required for the regular season. To see the complete roster for [...]
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29 Sep
The Ducks are expected to make final roster decisions by noon Wednesday as that is the deadline mandated by the NHL. The team will have to make a minimum of two cuts, but might make more depending on how the coaching staff feels about the developmental needs of certain players.
I can only talk about the roster cuts [...]
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29 Sep
No big Ducks news here…I just wanted to point out that several Ducks players have made appearances at restaurants in the last week. Ryan Getzlaf was at a Red Robin in Rancho Cucamonga as you can read here, while Scott Niedermayer, James Wisniewski, Saku Koivu, and Mike Brown were at RA Sushi as you can read [...]
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29 Sep
The Ducks were finally picked to finish first in the Western Conference by a professional hockey writer. ESPN has done team previews for all the NHL teams and Pierre LeBrun picked the Ducks to finish first mostly because of a sense of anger over losing to Detroit in last years playoffs.
Pierre LeBrun is not the [...]
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28 Sep
Today has been eerily quiet for Ducks fans. On a day when most teams sent down the last of their prospects in order to finalize their rosters, the Ducks have done absolutely nothing. The Ducks will have until Wednesday afternoon to make final decisions on their regular season roster.
The consensus, at least between sports writers, [...]
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28 Sep
For those that were not able to be at the game last night game versus the Kings, click here to see highlights.
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27 Sep
A very entertaining game ended with a Ducks victory to give the team a preseason record of 5-3, while the Kings played well but dropped to a record of 4-3-1. Both teams’ top lines were the showcase of the game as Bobby Ryan, Ryan Getzlaf, and Corey Perry collected a total of seven points and accounted for [...]
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27 Sep
The Ducks will take on the Kings tonight at Honda Center in the final preseason game for both clubs. The Kings played last night to a 5-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche and have an impressive 4-2-1 record during the preseason. The Ducks, meanwhile, are 4-3 in an up-and-down preseason where the latest game was a significant “down” [...]
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