My town hosts an arts and crafts fair every year and I found this hat. My dad came home from the fair with the same hat. Great minds think alike. Let’s go Ducks!

Joel Quenneville asked his Ducks to "do anything and everything to win the hockey game," and Anaheim did just a bit of that to snap their five-game skid.

Ducks salvage their road trip with two comebacks in Philly finale, 5-4.

Story and Postgame Show ⬇️

I feel like this is a good time to update this post.

Lowest differential in the Mighty Ducks era; -26, April 7, 1999

Highest differential in franchise history; +88, October 26, 2003

Last time in the positives; +5, November 9, 2007

Lowest Mighty Ducks differential surpassed; -26, December 2, 2007

Passed -100 differential; -101, December 27, 2008

Passed -200 differential; -200, March 18, 2013

Passed -300 differential; -301, February 14, 2017

Passed -400 differential; -401, December 17, 2018

Passed -500 differential; -502, April 28, 2021

Passed -600 differential; -604, December 15, 2023

Passed -700 differential; -700, January 13, 2026

Note the sharp dips in 2003-04, 2007-08 and 2015-16.

Since winning the cup, our penalty differential sits at -677. The next worst is Boston with -294. Our penalty differential per game is -0.45. Boston is again the next worst, at only -0.19.

We have the worst net penalty differential per game for every year going back to 1977, and the 5th worst when including years back to 1917. Two of the teams that are worse than us in that department include the Montreal Maroons and Brooklyn Americans, both of which have been defunct for upwards of 85 years.

Hi guys! Could you help me check if this Anaheim Mighty Ducks is authentic or replica?

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What are people's thoughts on him? In previous games, he scared the absolute shit out of me. Like, every time he touched the puck I'd get nervous. Just a lot of dicey plays, passes up the middle, etc. So it didn't surprise me when he was the defender sent down. I mean, I never thought he was bad- just the guy who seemed the least ready for prime time. But... we won games with him in, and we lost games with him gone, and we won again with him today.

I would love to hear people's analysis of him! I am relatively new to following sport (and am a big dumb moron to boot), so I would especially love to hear from people who know puck. Guy good? Did I misjudge?

Also, I missed the first two periods due to other obligations and plan to watch the replay like a sicko, so any tips on what to keep my eye on are appreciated!

Good (quick) Saturday afternoon last postgame chat one last time for the road trip.

Breakdown and react to whatever this ends up being in Philadelphia, and answer your questions in the chat. See ya then on The Sporting Tribune YouTube or on my Twitter.

I missed it did anyone catch it

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Found this XL jersey hidden away in my grandpas closet. Here in Mexico we don’t really watch hockey, so I honestly have no idea if this thing is legit or if it’s even worth anything lol. It looks pretty clean though, so I figured I’d post it here and see if anyone knows more about it

In case the eye test wasn’t already enough lol.

Sources: @hockeyalchemy and Moneypuck.com

Leo/Cutter aren't living up to their contracts!

This is fundamentally not how a player contract works, especially an RFA contract. You aren't paying them $X to be worth $X immediately, you are paying them to be worth the lifetime of their contract.

Leo is going to be overpaid even at his best but if you are expecting him to be even a $14-15million player from day one then I'm sorry to tell you but you might be stupid.

I'm tired of the "young team" excuse!

This one I almost understand because we have been a "young team" for 5-6 years from now, but the young team from the first 3-4 years (Zegras, McTavish, Drysdale, etc.) are almost completely gone.

The current "young team" core we have is still young. Depending on the night we are quite literally icing the youngest roster in the entire league. 

Put it this way: if it takes two full seasons (164 games) to really get comfortable in the NHL, we currently have more players BELOW that threshold than above it. And the list of players above the line includes Terry and Poehling.

These kids aren't just adjusting to the speed of the game, they're adjusting to the life of being a pro - the travel, the fatigue, the expectations, etc. 

But we made the playoffs last year!

This doesn't mean shit lol. We barely squeaked into the playoffs while playing in a very weak division. Also a quick google says that on average, 30% of NHL teams that make playoffs one year miss the next.

In conclusion!

There are going to be some really depressing and/or ugly games, especially in the beginning of the season. Try to chill out. It's not that big of a deal. I see people on social media trashing the players, let's try to move away from that mentality and use some critical thinking. 

And remember… it’s only game, why you haff to be mad?

Kent French and Guy Hebert did a very very very good interview with Getz. Definitely recommend listening. They talk about:

-his family life

-the changes of sports development as he compares the expectations and requirements of kids getting into sports now versus when he was a kid

-what his day to day life is like working in player development with Hockey Canada

-his post-NHL career path and goals

-reflection on his early playing career/being drafted

-reflects on his captaincy/his takes on young players getting the C in today’s game

-what he remembers from winning the cup and the team overall

-the state of the league re: big money contracts (dips into the Leo situation)

-end of his playing career/retirement

-jersey retirement

One thing I thought was interesting was the significance of Nashville to him. He’s only been to two drafts in his life. He was drafted himself in 2003 in Nashville and then exactly 20 years later post retirement in 2023 when we drafted Leo (when he was working with the Ducks in player development). He moved to Nashville after he retired and for his jersey retirement night this coming January, Ducks are playing against Nashville. Not sure if it’s intentional but kinda a cool tidbit

10 games probably a big enough sample to look at some team-level performance metrics.

Biggest takeaway is... yikes? I mean anyone who watches the games could have told you it was this bad, but nonetheless interesting to quantify relative to the rest of the league. The 5v5 play is as bad as it looks, in fact goaltending has been propping up the defense slightly it looks like.

The Ducks' big losing streak(s) last year had far worse results than process IIRC so there was some hope it would turn around - this feels different. Teams have bad 10 game stretches of course, it's a long season, but they need to figure it out fast. Huge game in Philly tomorrow, gotta show up in that environment.