A leader like Paul Kariya didn’t just come out of thin air, and scorers like Teemu Selanne and Corey Perry didn’t just magically appear, there’s always a rhyme or reason behind how players become the stars of the show, and the Ducks have plenty of candidates to fill those big roles of the past. Whether a great player comes from drafting or a trade, it doesn’t matter in the long run in terms of their production, and for the Anaheim Ducks, their best players are actually a mix of the two.
In any case, picking and choosing which players from any side that might be the most successful on the team is an almost impossible task that is left up to plenty of speculation and numbers, but using the glimpses of play that we’ve seen from these players as well as their current statistics, we’ll attempt to crack the case of the current top five for the Anaheim Ducks.