Opening in Europe: Ensuring the NHL's irrelevancy in the U.S. (Yahoo! Sports) For the fifth time in its history, the NHL played regular season games outside of North America as the... Facing Off with Anaheim Ducks RW Teemu Selanne (PA SportsTicker) PA SportsTicker recently obstructed Anaheim Ducks right wing Teemu Selanne and held him long enough to ask the following questions: Ducks Team Report (Yahoo! Sports) The Ducks appear to possess nearly all the necessary ingredients to make a strong run at a second Stanley Cup championship in three seasons.
Standout Jean-Sebastien Giguere and more than capable backup Jonas Hiller give the Ducks one of the top goaltending tandems in the NHL. The defense, led by former Norris Trophy winners Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger, figures to be as good as anyone's. Center Ryan Getzlaf and right wing Corey Perry lead a high-octane top line. The checking unit, headed by center Samuel Pahlsson, is outstanding, and there are more than enough capable energy line-type players.
The key question in Anaheim, just as it was last season, has to do with a productive second scoring line. McIver lifts Ducks past Canucks in OT (AP) 
New Anaheim defenseman Nathan McIver skated out of the penalty box and into a breakaway, and beating Roberto Luongo at 22 seconds of overtime to give the Ducks a 4-3 preseason win over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night. It was McIver's first game for the Ducks after being claimed off waivers from the Canucks after Vancouver tried to send him down to the American Hockey League.
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