The Anaheim Ducks somehow managed to score the funniest goal of their season in a loss, as Mikael Granlund missed a wide-open net, stood in shock, and then immediately tapped in the rebound after Mason McTavish walked untouched into the slot. What started with Drew Helleson blocking a shot and leaving the bench in pain turned into a chaotic “defense to offense” sequence that perfectly summed up this Ducks season. Despite a strong first period — arguably their best in months — Anaheim controlled possession, limited neutral-zone turnovers, earned a rare 5-on-3, and scored first again thanks to a beautiful transition goal from Ryan Poehling off passes from Cutter Gauthier, Chris Kreider, and Jackson LaCombe. Still, the Ducks couldn’t sustain it and fell 5–2 to the Carolina Hurricanes, continuing the same frustrating patterns that have defined their season. With Troy Terry out, lines shuffled again, Joel Quenneville calling the team “fragile,” and John Ahlers and Brian Hayward providing the most entertainment on the broadcast, this recap breaks down where things went wrong — and why effort and mentality remain the biggest issues going forward. #nhl #hockey #anaheimducks #carolinahurricanes
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So sad how the ducks have fallen this season
What happened to Leo? He appears disinterested, disappointed and just tired. Buffalo should be a hoot…
You can lie to the fans, but you can’t line to your opponents. Leo has been invisible, Sennecke is constantly turning the puck over, Kreider hasn’t done much, and many other issues. Mintyukov has been playing like a star defenseman and he’s consistently out of the lineup. Fans need to start holding players accountable, look at Luke Hughes. These players mindsets are in the “I’m getting paid anyway” zone and they give up when things get hard. You have to hate losing.
Bench Leo
Wow, you can hear the enthusiasm of a fan run YouTube channel sucked away from the "Gooooo ducks!" signoff to just "go ducks…".
Seriously though, it's pretty frustrating to see us in the attacking zone doing well, off by one. Then they pull the goalie and the puck comes sailing in from across the ice and the other team blows it open with like 2 min left.
I know goals/goal against goes into the calculation for standings so when we all 45 points between us, the kings and the sharks, we went to the bottom of the list. Letting the opponents score easy goals is only gonna hurt us even worse. Our stated goal this season was get to post season and we're literally going out of our way to miss it.
Maybe we'll get first pick in the draft.
When we were winning, lines 1 and 2 were scorching. Line 3 and 4 was invisible, and D was bad. Now teams are focusing on shutting down line 1 and 2, and line 3 and 4 are still invisible and the D is still bad. We might not win a game till the end of the month, and those games are still an if with the way we are playing. You know that old saying, GM's hate to admit they made a mistake. And Strome, Vatrano, Killorn, Gudas, Trouba were all Beeker gets. In order to turn this season around, or at least work towards next season, we need to start jettisoning these "Veterans", and I don't know if Beeker will do it. Which means we need someone new to right the ship.
Even when we were winning, we obviously needed defensive help. Verbeek still sitting on his hands.. Like imagine if he had gone after Hughes.
Don't see win until the final week of this month
Kreider ain't it, and Gudas is straight ASS, how he still has captaincy I literally do not know. Leo doesn't look dangerous at all. Lacombes contract is starting to look bad. 5 SOG in 20mins is a disgrace. I'm from the UK and I stay up until 3-4am to watch this shit on work nights… I'm tired and PISSED OFF.
Unfortunately we cant forget this ducks team has alot of very young players and not completely ready just yet
Then you block a shoot and see if you would not cry
Whats going on with Leo???
That first goal was pretty sick. Offer still stands when I go the see the Kings v Quacks on the 17th.
They need a hypnotist.
Hoping they can still turn it around.
These boys are definitely in some weird lol that I can only describe as silly yet weird asf
They just gotta work on those weak side crossovers and dekes is all 😀
Fire Cronin
Your recaps are the only thing keeping us going now. 3:32 Olympics pretty much screwed this charmin team over since Leo was not ready for what this season's all about. I actually watched the Blackhawks Banner Years video out of curiousity and Que actually had a sick young team of grit. No way that Zegras scoring would've added any of that to this lineup unfortunately
Hopefully they win tonight!!! The ducks are a good team this season. No doubt about it. Leagues better than last year ducks. But most of them ARE rookies. Fast, agile and unpredictable (for the other team) but unfortunately rookies make lots of mistakes. A lot of these games I’ve watched and the ducks have been playing pretty good but have just gotten unlucky. 2 goals the canes got on us were literally unblock-able, not much Husso could do about that. But I feel like when that does happen, the ducks need to come on even stronger and get one back.
I can tell how the team is doing just based on the energy level of your "Go Ducks"…. I get it though… been hard to cheer lately…
Honestly, really tuff at the moment.
You didn't mention Granny for "players who give their all". To me he seems like one of that group, if not even the one who gives the most effort!
I’m free Falling. I’m free free falling