Thursday’s playoff contest will be the eighth in 14 days for the Ducks, who have gone consecutive days without a game just once in the last two weeks.
Add in the five charter flights that covered more than 9,000 miles and three time zones between those games and the postseason has become a grind for the Pacific Division champs.
“Yeah, it’s hard,” said Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano, whose team goes into Game 4 of the Western Conference finals against the Nashville Predators trailing the best-of-seven series 2-1.