ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Corey Perry is following Ryan Getzlaf's lead yet again, sticking with the Anaheim Ducks for the long term.
The 42-year-old Finnish Flash's talents are pretty much timeless, and his timely goal got the Anaheim Ducks off to a solid playoff start.
Lubomir Visnovsky, a defenseman acquired from the Anaheim Ducks, took his time reporting to the team after the NHL lockout ended last month.
Chicago (14-0-3) won its fourth straight game to break a mark set by the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks, who earned points in their first 16 games.
The contentiousness between the team and its ex-star reached its peak on Feb. 5, 2008, during a game at the Coliseum between the Islanders and the Anaheim Ducks.
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Hence the inclusion on our list of Jean-Sebastian Giguere, a hot goalie who led the Anaheim Ducks to the 2007 Stanley Cup, and then rewarded with a lucrative four-year contract.
But teams like the Carolina Hurricanes, Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Anaheim Ducks and Columbus Blue Jackets would still have trouble making money unless they went at least two rounds in the playoffs.
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The NHL hosted two fixtures between the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings at London's 02 Arena in 2007, but French bemoans the fact the English capital is not represented in the GB professional league.
Patrick Kane and Andrew Shaw scored in the tiebreaker for the Blackhawks (13-0-3), who earned their third consecutive win and joined the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks as the only teams to record at least one point in the first 16 games of a season.
Its scheme was to start with a regional sports network in Los Angeles, where Disney's baseball team, the Anaheim Angels, and its hockey team, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, were to form the core of the programming.
Burke and Carlyle were in charge of Anaheim when the Ducks won the Stanley Cup in 2007.
In his first full season in Anaheim, Boudreau led the Ducks to the Pacific Division title and the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
While Detroit played the Ducks evenly at full strength, Anaheim's special-teams skill decided it.
The Red Wings also had good recent results in Anaheim, where they won consecutive games in late March to snap the Ducks' 13-game home winning streak.
After the Ducks knocked off top-seeded San Jose in 2009, Detroit beat eighth-seeded Anaheim in the second round on the way to the Stanley Cup finals.
Perry's impending free agency could have forced Anaheim to consider trading its top goal-scorer to avoid losing him for nothing, but the Ducks now have their two cornerstones signed for the foreseeable future.
The Ducks have won just one postseason round since winning their only Stanley Cup in 2007, and Anaheim is eager for another lengthy run after the current team finally actualized its considerable talent.
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