Anaheim Ducks 2022-23 Season Preview

Broadcasters Albert, Cuthbert discuss where teams stand during holiday weekend NHL.com staff writer Mike Zeisberger has been covering the NHL regularly since 1999. Each Sunday he will use his extensive networks of hockey contacts to write his weekly notes column, "Zizing'Em Up." TORONTO -- The unwritten credo in the hockey world for the past couple…

The NHL 2022-23 season unfolded with some intense battles that kept fans on the edge of their seats until the very end day of the regular season. The battle for a precious playoff spot reached a fever pitch, leading to some surprising upsets along the way as well. But ultimately, the Vegas Golden Knights emerged as the triumphant conquerors,…

The NHL playoffs are nearly half over, which means it's time to start looking toward next season already. That all begins with the NHL Draft Lottery, which solidifies the order for the first 16 picks in the upcoming draft. While there's reason to be excited about draft prospects every year, this year's top prospect Connor Bedard is a…

The draft lottery is here at last, Ducks faithful, so allow yourselves to get excited. Really. It is OK. Permission is granted to get giddy. Wary, you are? Perhaps you're already steeling yourself to be disappointed on Monday night. Anaheim has never won the lottery and why would the NHL change now, right? Gary Bettman will simply not allow it. Not…

There are some job openings in the NHL coaching market, including the Anaheim Ducks. Dallas Eakins recently was relieved of his duties, after four years on the job and a 100-147-44 record. The Ducks, who won the Stanley Cup in 2007, have missed the playoffs the past five seasons. That doesn't bode well for odds. By NHL standards, Eakins was given a…

SEATTLE - Five days ago, these patchwork Chicago Blackhawks, with a roster full of rookies and stopgaps and journeymen and expiring contracts, marched into a hostile Saddledome and somehow defeated a desperate Calgary Flames team with so much more talent and so much more to play for. It's everything we love about sports - the scrappy underdog…

With the NHL playoffs three weeks away, the Kings have established themselves as one of the best teams in the Western Conference, if not the league. Their 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena extended their points streak to a franchise-record 12 games (10-0-2). Since the All-Star break, the Kings are 15-2-3, putting…

The PGA Tour will stop at TPC Sawgrass this weekend for the highly-anticipated Players Championship. The PGA Championship is the second-last elevated event ahead of the 2023 Masters. The world's best golfers will be teeing off at Ponte Vedra Beach for a shot at historic $25 million purse, the biggest purse on the PGA Tour this year. Compared to…

For the first time in a long time, there's a generational player available in the 2023 NHL draft. One of the rare byproducts of a season that has gone off the rails for the Ducks is that they are in contention to draft Connor Bedard, a 17-year-old who plays for the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League. Bedard wowed the scouts at the World…

It's that time of year again - time to start a new year, and have some fun with predictions for the next 12 months. These are honest-to-goodness educated guesses as to what we see taking place in 2023: Some - this writer included - thought the Blues would be a force to reckon with in the Western Conference. Instead, they've lost more than they've…

Let's imagine a hypothetical hockey player. Say they're a left winger for some team in the Central Division, and are currently in their third year in the NHL. To drive home the idea that this player is not real and is completely made up, we'll give him a nonsensical name: Rason Jobertson. Jobertson had an excellent rookie year, scoring only a few…

LOS ANGELES - The captain isn't ready to wave the white towel. All Brady Tkachuk wants to do is help the Ottawa Senators right the ship. The Senators passed the quarter-mark of the NHL season Sunday night as they closed out this four-game road trip against the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena. Coming off a 5-1 win Friday over the Anaheim…

The Buffalo Sabres fanbase needs to chill and trust general manager Kevyn Adams and head coach Don Granato's process that will build a winner. Far too often across social media and fan forums, you will see Buffalo Sabres faithful young and old castigating general manager Kevyn Adams and head coach Don Granato. Following a 7-3-0 start, expectations…

Technically, the National Hockey League opened the regular season this past weekend, with the Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks playing a two-game set in Prague. But meaningful puck drop - where the rest of the league, including the seven Canadian teams, get started - comes this week, and from there, a six-month sprint to the…

The 2022-23 NHL season is less than a week away, which means it's time to release the standings projections! There are many different models and methods used across various sites and companies that project the total standings points for every team in the league. We've rounded up a handful of them here so we can see how everyone thinks this…

The Mighty Ducks are underdogs once again in The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 2. After winning their team name back at the end of Season 1, the team gets invited to an exclusive hockey training summer camp. But what coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) and the kids don't realize is the camp is far from campfires and s'mores. It's an elite…

The Senators had excessive expectations going into 2021-22, or no less than excessive by their requirements. After a powerful second half to the 2020-21 season, many anticipated the group to start out making some noise and contend for a playoff spot. That went out the window immediately, as they misplaced 16 of their first 20 video games of the…

The parade lap was skated. The handshake line is closed. As we speak, the Stanley Cup is making its series of daily summertime trips through the Colorado Avalanche organization. But the B/R hockey team is still thinking about, well...hockey. Which means now that an early compilation of odds for the 2022-23 NHL season has been compiled by…

Welcome to the daily NHL betting market report, your source for comprehensive and dynamic hockey betting analysis. This page will be updated throughout the day as needed. Be on the lookout for player prop bets. All game lines via VSiN NHL Odds Page All stats via Evolving Hockey and Natural Stat Trick Market Report Recap for Wednesday, April…

Tonight's California hockey matchup features a Pacific Divisional rivalry as the Anaheim Ducks play host to the San Jose Sharks who are both on the wrong side of the playoffs as of now. The Ducks open up a six-game homestand tonight as they face the Sharks for the first time this season. It's time to continue our NHL odds series with a Sharks-Ducks…

After seven games, the Vancouver Canucks are still looking for their first win of the 2022-23 NHL season. For a team that had strong postseason aspirations after making some large commitments this past summer, the start has been nothing short of devastating. Not only are the Canucks losing games, but they continue to invent new ways to record a…

It's playoff time - would you rather have more strong players or fewer weak players? It's the age-old question of what matters more in a playoff series: star power or depth. In a sport like basketball, the answer is obvious. Star power rules all and the team with the best high-end talent usually wins. There are exceptions to the rule, but for the…

Dallas Eakins scratched his head the first time he saw Simon Benoit. Here stood a lanky, undrafted defenceman who had earned an invite to the Anaheim Ducks 2018 development camp. At 6-foot-3, Benoit's frame was interesting, but he was also the lightest of 11 defencemen in camp. Eakins, coach of the AHL's San Diego Gulls at the time and then Ducks…