What We Learned: NHL could learn a thing or two from the Super Bowl (Yahoo! Sports) Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about … Continue reading → Ducks Team Report (Yahoo! Sports) With personnel like Bobby Ryan and Saku Koivu that can't crack the top unit of a power play because of people like Teemu Selanne, Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry occupying those spots, the Ducks' power play should be one of the NHL's best. These players have produced great success with the man advantage in the past, producing success rates that were tied for fourth in 2008-09 (23.6 percent) and 2009-10 (21 percent) before improving to third last season (23.5). But while they scored once in five chances Friday against Columbus, the Ducks also failed to come through on opportunities to bury the Blue Jackets as they allowed them to come back for a 3-2 overtime victory. The Ducks have been successful on 31 of 174 opportunities for only 17.8 percent and that actually... Two more reasons Teemu Selanne rules: Holding ceramic pig, wearing panty-dropper shirt (Photo) (Yahoo! Sports) On Saturday night, the Anaheim Ducks held their annual skills competition at Honda Center to the delight of 7,000 fans. Teemu Selanne's team was victorious for the second straight year, earning him the much-coveted ceramic pig and the opportunity to … Continue reading → Cogs wishes he’d been here for Gags’ big night (The Edmonton Journal) In 2008, Sam Gagner had a front row seat for Andrew Cogliano’s record setting run that started on March 7 and ended a hard-to-fathom three overtime games later. When the tables turned this week, and Gagner was the talk of the NHL, Cogliano was keeping tabs from his new home in Anaheim. |