LA Times · Oct 17, 2024
Can the young Ducks finally migrate into the playoffs?
Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier enters the rink before the start of the home opener. By Kevin Baxter
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Oct. 17, 2024 3:30 AM PT
Three games into the NHL season, hope and optimism reign and every team believes it is a Stanley Cup contender. Even the repackaged Anaheim Ducks, whose last playoff win came less than four months after Barack Obama left the White House, have reason to dream.
“You have to have that mentality, that this a playoff team,” said defenseman Cam Fowler, one of two players on the Ducks’ roster who also played on that 2017 playoff team. “If anyone’s in here and doesn’t feel that we can do that, I’d be very surprised.”