GDT: #1 ⋅ ANA @ SJS ⋅ 7:00 PM PDT

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Season Series (2024–25)

#1 ⋅ @ SJS ⋅ October 12, 7:00 PM PDT
#2 ⋅ @ ANA ⋅ October 22, 7:15 PM PDT
#3 ⋅ @ ANA ⋅ April 1, 7:00 PM PDT

Spoiler: Season Series 2023–24

#1 ⋅ @ ANA ⋅ 4-1 W
- Vatrano (Strome, Lyubushkin)
- Vatrano (Silfverberg, Fowler) (PP)
- McTavish (Carlsson, Mintyukov) (PP)
- Gudas (Vatrano, Strome)
- Gibson .962%

#2 ⋅ @ SJS ⋅ 3-5 L
- LaCombe (Henrique)
- Henrique (Terry, Carlsson)
- McTavish (Terry) (PP)
- Gibson .778

#3 ⋅ @ ANA ⋅ 3-2 W
- Lundeström (McTavish, Silfverberg)
- Terry (Henrique, Carlsson)
- Vatrano (Terry, LaCombe) (OT)
- Gibson .929

#3 ⋅ @ SJS ⋅ 6-4 W
- Carlsson (Henrique, Killorn)
- Leason (Mintyukov, Gudas) (SH)
- Killorn (Lindström, Henrique)
- Vatrano (LaCombe, Strome) (PP)
- Henrique (Strome, LaCombe) (PP)
- Lundström (EN)
- Gibson .857

Goals: 16
Goals Against: 12
Power Play: 5/17 (29.4%)
Penalty Kill: 4/13 (69.2%)

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Team Leaders 2023–24

Points: 60 (Vatrano) vs 60 (Granlund)
Goals: 37 (Vatrano) vs 33 (Toffoli)
Assists: 34 (Terry) vs 48 (Granlund)
GAA: 3.33 (Dostál) vs 3.18 (Vaněček)
SV%: .902 (Dostál) vs .899 (Blackwood)

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Team Stats 2023–24

Record: 27-50-5 vs 19-54-9
Goals: 203 vs 180
Goals Against: 293 vs 326
Power Play: 17.9 vs 20.2
Penalty Kill: 72.4 vs 75.4

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[mightyquack]

Finally! Can't wait to get started.

No work for our first 5 games of the season too, which will either be a great or terrible decision

 

[Kalv]

Omg. Lessssgooo

I expect us to be rusty tho. Hope to hang in there by the 3rd and then hopefully our guys would have their legs under them. Not dure that's how it works tho

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Finally. Whoever's responsible for scheduling, eff off.

 

[AngelDuck]

We’re back!

We’re the only team who hasn’t played a game yet(a lot of teams have already played 2-3 games) and we start on a road back to back.

Pretty embarrassing scheduling

 

[FlyingV09]

Washington plays their first game today as well.

I’m not sure condensing the already condensed schedule(4 Nations Cup) bodes well for our typically injury riddled Ducks. I’m too lazy to look it up but it sure feels like we get the shaft when it comes to scheduling year after year. Personally I think the teams that travel more miles should see a better schedule.

Oh well….Go Ducks!

 

[Arthuros]

*squealing*

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

I think the Ducks have only started the season in Anaheim 3 times? 4 times? In 30-whatever years.

 

[Mr Rogers]

I think the Ducks have only started the season in Anaheim 3 times? 4 times? In 30-whatever years.

Last two years NHL is probably like “just be happy youre starting your season in your home time zone.” 2 years ago we started at home only to immediately go off on a long east coast road swing.

With that said, I’m genuinely more interested in seeing how this year’s team does than I’ve been in a long time. Just really hope for once the injuries don’t take all the fun out of it right away and prevent guys from having big years.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Last two years NHL is probably like “just be happy youre starting your season in your home time zone.” 2 years ago we started at home only to immediately go off on a long east coast road swing.

With that said, I’m genuinely more interested in seeing how this year’s team does than I’ve been in a long time. Just really hope for once the injuries don’t take all the fun out of it right away and prevent guys from having big years.

More interested and more apprehensive.

 

[slippingsloth]

Apprehensive
Hope is a helluva drug
Let’s go Ducks
Finally go time.
Now don’t fall off the bike and bang your knee young ones we need you healthy

 

[JabbaJabba]

Lets goooooo Ducks! New season, new opportunities.

 

[HanSolo]

God a week and a day. What a stupid ass wait. Glad it's finally over. Selfishly hoping the Ducks don't drain the tank tonight since I'll get to watch them in person against Vegas tomorrow night.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

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Not really fond of the lower case "s" b/c it looks too much like the letter j or y.

And finally, we're set to play! Let's go, Ducks!

 

[Leonardo87]

Tonight would be a perfect night for a Gauthier hat trick.

 

[Boo Boo]

Wait are we sure we want to do this

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Wait are we sure we want to do this

 

[Fighter]

Compared to last season's mid season lineup which was the worst in Ducks History, looking at this one is comforting.

Don't expect much but let's hope for some bright spots here and there.

 

[MMC]

Would’ve been nice if we could start the season when everyone else did since I gotta work tonight after having a week off

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Hopefully we don’t come out too flat

 

[HanSolo]

Tonight would be a perfect night for a Gauthier hat trick.

Save it for Vegas

 

[MMC]

"The excitement in the room speaks for itself," Ducks captain Radko Gudas said. "We have a young group that wants to prove itself so I'm excited we have a pair of division battles to get started right away.

"Our training camp has been good. We put in a lot of work. Now we're excited to beat up on someone else for a change."

"We've got to play like we did in training camp, get off to a good start," head coach Greg Cronin said. "Most of the games I thought we did a good job with that. We had good structure early and good pace to the way we played."

I like the steps we've been taking and the progress since the end of last year," Gudas said. "I think we are way better now than we were at this time last year. It's a great step for us, especially from the young guys who have improved and are more confident this year."

"It was a better camp this year," Cronin said. "From our experience last year, it was more organized and the players were more familiar with what the expectations were. When you have that familiarity, everything goes quicker."

"[Brian Dumoulin] brings a lot of poise and a lot of experience," Gudas said. "We needed that, a presence to help calm each other down...We're trying to get pucks to our centers and wingers earlier and with more confidence so we can make more plays and get out of the zone."

"It's very tough to lose a guy like Gibby," Gudas said. "We're hoping for the best recovery. He's one of the best goalies in the league so it's a big hurdle for us at the start, but Dosty has been there for us whenever we needed him. He proved last year he can play big games. All the guys have a lot of confidence in him."

 

[Boo Boo]

"The excitement in the room speaks for itself," Ducks captain Radko Gudas said. "We have a young group that wants to prove itself so I'm excited we have a pair of division battles to get started right away.

"Our training camp has been good. We put in a lot of work. Now we're excited to beat up on someone else for a change."

"We've got to play like we did in training camp, get off to a good start," head coach Greg Cronin said. "Most of the games I thought we did a good job with that. We had good structure early and good pace to the way we played."

I like the steps we've been taking and the progress since the end of last year," Gudas said. "I think we are way better now than we were at this time last year. It's a great step for us, especially from the young guys who have improved and are more confident this year."

"It was a better camp this year," Cronin said. "From our experience last year, it was more organized and the players were more familiar with what the expectations were. When you have that familiarity, everything goes quicker."

"[Brian Dumoulin] brings a lot of poise and a lot of experience," Gudas said. "We needed that, a presence to help calm each other down...We're trying to get pucks to our centers and wingers earlier and with more confidence so we can make more plays and get out of the zone."

"It's very tough to lose a guy like Gibby," Gudas said. "We're hoping for the best recovery. He's one of the best goalies in the league so it's a big hurdle for us at the start, but Dosty has been there for us whenever we needed him. He proved last year he can play big games. All the guys have a lot of confidence in him."

I love gudas for saying this given how much gibby gets dumped on.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Hopefully the zegras mctavish fabbri line can click a lot better than preseason.

Not worried bout carlsson line
And the 3rd line should run fine
2nd line needs to produce offense tho

 

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Gudas the statesman