Toward the end of a long day of practice and off-ice preparation, the Ducks allowed themselves one brief moment of appreciation.
During their special teams meeting Wednesday, they gave a collective nod to achieving something that hadn't been done in the NHL in more than 30 years — leading the league in power play and penalty killing.
"We kind of just took a step back and said, 'Congratulations,'" Cam Fowler said. "But besides being in the record books, it doesn't mean a whole lot heading into the playoffs. Now we have to carry over into the postseason what we did during the regular season, which is have confidence in the penalty kill and the power play, and if we do that, we're a very difficult team to compete against.