Photo Courtesy Of The Orange County Register Videos Courtesy Of NHL and First NHL Goal on Youtube.com In a lost season where not much matters there is always one thing you can look forward to, first NHL goals. Thanks to another injury plagued season and a sub-par team performance for 3 months of said season,... Continue Reading →
Andrew Cogliano was traded on 1/14/19 to the Dallas Stars for forward Devin Shore. Ducks twitter was understandably shocked when the news dropped early Monday morning. I think we all knew in the midst of an 11 game losing streak that changes were possible. I just don't think anyone expected fan favorite, locker room leader,... Continue Reading →
Games: 25-29 Predators, Lightning, Panthers, Hurricanes, Capitals Scores: 2-5, 3-1, 3-2, 2-1, 6-5 Road Trip Record: 4-1 If you weren’t nervous going into a long 5 game road trip against 3 of the best teams in the league then you are insane. Going in to play against Nashville, Tampa and the defending cup champs is... Continue Reading →
DFR Recap (Game 20) Ducks at Golden Knights Score: 0-5 11/14/18 This sucks. Everything about this freaking sucks. We play our best game of the season on Monday against the Predators and earn a shoot-out win. Everyone was pretty good and while Gibson did bail us out a couple times, it wasn’t all on him.... Continue Reading →
DFR Recap Game 13 Ducks vs. Flyers Score: 2-3 10/30/18 This isn’t so much a recap of one game as it is an angry rant about the past 6. WHAT THE HELL is going on with this team. I know they have injuries and are “trying” to learn a new up-tempo style in play and... Continue Reading →
Boy did it feel good to be mighty again. The Ducks started their home schedule in style by throwing it back to the 1990’s all night for the 2018-2019 home opener. The night was filled with eggplant and jade jerseys, Mighty Ducks’ merchandise, throwback videos, 90’s music, original Mighty Ducks’ players and Wild Wing repelling from the rafters
As of writing this post on October 5th, Nick Ritchie still does not have a contract with the Anaheim Ducks and I believe the question deserves to be asked. What is he doing? If you don’t know, Nick Ritchie is currently a restricted free agent who is in a contract negotiation standstill with the Anaheim... Continue Reading →
Pre-Season Game 5 (Home Game 3) 9/26/18 Ducks vs. Kings Score: 7-4 The game that defense forgot. But hey, at least the Ducks won, right? I mean, they should have destroyed them based off of the King's roster they iced for this game. But it was a bit closer than I expected as the game... Continue Reading →
Ducks vs. Sharks Pre-Season Game 2 9/20/18 Score: 3-7 This will be just a quick piece about the Ducks first home pre-season game of the 2018 season. I’ll break it down by talking about the veterans, rookies and goalies and who was noticeably good, or glaringly bad. The veterans: (Perry, Rakell, Silfverberg, Manson, Lindholm, Kase,... Continue Reading →
