Building the Nest
3/12/2024 - The Anaheim Ducks may boast the most consistent elite goalie play in NHL history. With the trade Expand
3/12/2024 - The Anaheim Ducks may boast the most consistent elite goalie play in NHL history. With the trade deadline past, multiple contending teams have a clear hole in net, and almost none of them filled it. Whether you want to look at how Carolina is an extremely well rounded team except goaltending, how the LA Kings […] Collapse
The Boy and the Zen Master: Why the Gauthier Trade was Necessary but Not Fool Proo
2/15/2024 - I like YouTube. I was tested for ADHD, twice actually, as a kid at the behest of one of my Expand
2/15/2024 - I like YouTube. I was tested for ADHD, twice actually, as a kid at the behest of one of my elementary schools because I had a bit of a habit of checking out mentally multiple times throughout the day. One test came back inconclusive and another came back as negative. That was over 20 years […] Collapse
Anaheim Calling Roundtable: Cutter Gauthier Edition
1/9/2024 - The Anaheim Ducks made a shocking trade Monday evening sending young defenseman Jamie Drysdale and Expand
1/9/2024 - The Anaheim Ducks made a shocking trade Monday evening sending young defenseman Jamie Drysdale and their own 2025 2nd Round pick to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for the rights to forward Cutter Gauthier. It was a move that caught both fanbases and everyone else around the league by complete surprise and could change the […] Collapse
Game Preview: Ducks Host The Capitals
11/30/2023 - The Ducks will do their best to end their losing streak at 7-games tonight as they take on the Expand
11/30/2023 - The Ducks will do their best to end their losing streak at 7-games tonight as they take on the Washington Capitals for the 23rd regular season matchup. The Ducks are coming off a hard fought loss to the Vancouver Canucks, one of the best teams in the NHL this season and probably the biggest surprise […] Collapse
Anaheim Calling Roundtable: Thanksgiving PotLuck Edition
11/22/2023 - With the Thanksgiving holiday around the corner we thought we’d do another roundtable and Expand
11/22/2023 - With the Thanksgiving holiday around the corner we thought we’d do another roundtable and see how everyone was doing. However, in the spirit of the holiday I decided to make everyone bring their own question to the table, you know, like a potluck. Due to some classic holiday travel issues not everyone was able to […] Collapse
Game Preview: Ducks at Predators
11/14/2023 - The Anaheim Ducks will lace ’em up tonight for the 15th game of the season against longtime Expand
11/14/2023 - The Anaheim Ducks will lace ’em up tonight for the 15th game of the season against longtime foe the Nashville Predators. While most, if not all, of the names that laid the foundations of the animosity between the teams are long gone, this is still a game that fans of both organizations expect to win […] Collapse
As Advertised: Radko Gudas
10/30/2023 - Radko Gudas was one of only a handful of UFAs the Anaheim Ducks brought in to the team for this Expand
10/30/2023 - Radko Gudas was one of only a handful of UFAs the Anaheim Ducks brought in to the team for this season. Alex Killorn has yet to play yet due to a broken finger. Trevor Carrick and Robert Hagg were also brought in on league minimum deals to bolster the blue line depth, and Alex Stalock […] Collapse
A Fowl Feud: Yotes and Ducks
10/21/2023 - To the unacquainted, a rivalry between two teams with relatively short histories in now separate Expand
10/21/2023 - To the unacquainted, a rivalry between two teams with relatively short histories in now separate divisions seems unlikely. However in the battle for West Coast hockey, the unlikely pair of the Anaheim Ducks and the Arizona Coyotes surely have no love lost. Now look, writing for the Ducks and being a proud UCLA alumnus, I […] Collapse
Top 21 Under 21 – Anaheim Ducks Prospects – Defensemen & Goalies
10/19/2023 - The season has finally kicked off and another year of Ducks hockey has begun. With that new Expand
10/19/2023 - The season has finally kicked off and another year of Ducks hockey has begun. With that new beginning also begins a new season for the plethora of talent in the Ducks prospect pool. In the last post we took a look at the forward group of the Top 21 Ducks prospects under 21. This time […] Collapse
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How Do You Feel About Cosplay?
2/29/2024 - It’s silly season right now with the trade deadline little over a week away. In that spirit Expand
2/29/2024 - It’s silly season right now with the trade deadline little over a week away. In that spirit I have decided to write a beautiful work of science-fiction in which I am handed the reigns of this franchise for the time between now and the March 8 deadline. I have, as all good and benevolent overlords […] Collapse
Stock Market Quack-sh
2/5/2024 - Good Morning Anaheim, With the All Star break in full swing (yes it is going on, and no I Expand
2/5/2024 - Good Morning Anaheim, With the All Star break in full swing (yes it is going on, and no I haven’t been watching), it seems like a good time to go through pieces of the Ducks roster and see how each player has been. And with the current outlook of the roster and the trade deadline […] Collapse
New Year, New Quackers
1/2/2024 - Good Evening Anaheim, As we draw the end of this calendar year, it felt but fitting to look ahead Expand
1/2/2024 - Good Evening Anaheim, As we draw the end of this calendar year, it felt but fitting to look ahead to the next year. And with a new year comes a new year of aspirations, goals and desires for one to pursue for either the entire year or quit by mid-February. So with the year coming […] Collapse
The Fall of the House of Quackers
11/29/2023 - Good evening Anaheim. As the Ducks have now dropped to bitter rivals the LA Kings and Edmonton Expand
11/29/2023 - Good evening Anaheim. As the Ducks have now dropped to bitter rivals the LA Kings and Edmonton Oilers amidst our last 7 games, it seems fitting to diagnose what has changed in these past two weeks that has our team falling. A massive skid, falling behind in scoring every single game, and being outscored 33 […] Collapse
30 Years of Excellence: The Anaheim Ducks Ring of Honor Inaugural Class
11/22/2023 - For this month’s AC ForHockeyFans feature, I chose to Remember Some Guys. Anaheim has Expand
11/22/2023 - For this month’s AC ForHockeyFans feature, I chose to Remember Some Guys. Anaheim has retired three numbers in recent years and there are at least two more numbers to retire in the not too distant future. But what about the guys who’ve meant something to the team and the organization and the fanbase yet never […] Collapse
11 Takeaways After 11 Games
11/7/2023 - The Ducks started this year going 1-4-0 with -4 goal differential. They promptly followed that up Expand
11/7/2023 - The Ducks started this year going 1-4-0 with -4 goal differential. They promptly followed that up with a six game win streak that included wins over the previously unbeaten Bruins squad, the surprisingly feisty Flyers, and those damn desert dogs. After 11 games Anaheim finds themselves in an unexpected, though not unwelcomed, place – a […] Collapse
And The Division Goes To…. Central Edition
10/27/2023 - Quite possibly the least threatening division in the league, and yet still containing what are Expand
10/27/2023 - Quite possibly the least threatening division in the league, and yet still containing what are arguably the two most dangerous teams in the western conference, the Central is a land of contrasts. The Stars have a star at every position and a pipeline full of hotshot prospects looking to make a name for themselves. The […] Collapse
ROUNDTABLE TIME! – Leo Carlsson to Make NHL Debut
10/19/2023 - With Anaheim’s 2023 2nd overall pick expected to make his debut tonight, we decided to do a Expand
10/19/2023 - With Anaheim’s 2023 2nd overall pick expected to make his debut tonight, we decided to do a quick run around to see how the AC Staff is feeling heading into one of, if not outright, the biggest games of the year. What do they expect tonight and what does this portend for the rest of […] Collapse
Top 21 Under 21 – Anaheim Ducks Prospects – Forwards Edition
10/17/2023 - The season has finally kicked off and another year of Ducks hockey has begun. With that new Expand
10/17/2023 - The season has finally kicked off and another year of Ducks hockey has begun. With that new beginning also begins a new season for the plethora of talent in the Ducks prospect pool. We’re going to take a look at the Top 21 Ducks prospects under 21 and in no particular order preview their season […] Collapse
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Dismantling and Dissecting
2/20/2024 - So, the Anaheim Ducks just got pants’d on live TV with hockey night in Canada 9-2 to the Expand
2/20/2024 - So, the Anaheim Ducks just got pants’d on live TV with hockey night in Canada 9-2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In what can only be seen as the bottoming out of this season so far, we saw the variance between two ends of the hockey spectrum in almost every way. At one end, the […] Collapse
Sisterhood of the Traveling Perry
1/16/2024 - Good evening Anaheim, With the current bleak outlook for this Anaheim Ducks squad, there Expand
1/16/2024 - Good evening Anaheim, With the current bleak outlook for this Anaheim Ducks squad, there hasn’t been much to look forward to. Injuries every other minute, the offense running dry and completely fabricated Frank Seravalli rumors, it’s been tough. So, trying to find brevity in this season, a new wrinkle has developed. Corey Perry, the third […] Collapse
Between a Rock and a Quack Place
12/19/2023 - Good Morning Anaheim, As our Ducks sit in the middle of a rather impressive 3-13 stretch of games Expand
12/19/2023 - Good Morning Anaheim, As our Ducks sit in the middle of a rather impressive 3-13 stretch of games and the Christmas break coming soon, multiple questions remain on this Ducks team. What changes have been made in the lines to offset the loss of McTavish and Z? What can this losing skid tell us about […] Collapse
The Good, The Bad, and the Mediocre – Anaheim Ducks Prosect Update
11/28/2023 - We’re now 15-20 games in the season for most of the Ducks prospects and with Thanksgiving Expand
11/28/2023 - We’re now 15-20 games in the season for most of the Ducks prospects and with Thanksgiving here, what better time to sit back and take a look at some of the top performers thus far. You’ll notice some names are missing here and we’re excluding them from this update for one reason and one reason […] Collapse
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Abundance?
11/15/2023 - Anaheim is letting their unexpected success get in the way of a Grade A opportunity. Despite what Expand
11/15/2023 - Anaheim is letting their unexpected success get in the way of a Grade A opportunity. Despite what their early season success would have you believe, the Ducks are far from a threat to play any games, let alone make any noise, in late April and early May. This is not, for the record, a bad […] Collapse
Days of Our Ducks
11/4/2023 - via Bing AI Image Generator Good evening Anaheim Welcome to the monthly review where one of our Expand
11/4/2023 - via Bing AI Image Generator Good evening Anaheim Welcome to the monthly review where one of our writers gets considerably drunk and discusses the state of the Anaheim Ducks. I believe this is the best way we as a community can discuss the Ducks, in the state that hockey was truly meant to be consumed […] Collapse
Cardiac Quacks
10/27/2023 - via Anaheim Ducks on Twitter.com Good Morning Orange County, Last night, in what could only be Expand
10/27/2023 - via Anaheim Ducks on Twitter.com Good Morning Orange County, Last night, in what could only be described as a whirlwind of emotions, the Anaheim Ducks handed the Boston Bruins their first loss of the year. But the game was much more than that. It was a gritty first period, followed by an embarrassment of a […] Collapse
Pat Verbeek, Buddy – Are You Awake?
10/19/2023 - Over at the For Hockey Fans main page, I wrote about why General Manager Pat Verbeek should be Expand
10/19/2023 - Over at the For Hockey Fans main page, I wrote about why General Manager Pat Verbeek should be involved in the trade rumors surrounding some useful players throughout the league, specifically Vancouver’s Connor Garland and Ottawa’s Mathieu Joseph. At first glance, they both seem like poor fits given their age, contract status, and overall production […] Collapse
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