Can breakout star Leo Carlsson get the Ducks back on track?

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The upstart Anaheim Ducks overachieved out of the gate this season in eye-popping fashion.

Anaheim was 11-3-1 through its first 15 games, led the NHL in scoring (4.13 goals per game) at that mark and perhaps most shockingly, Ducks 21-year-old forward Leo Carlsson was sitting second in league scoring with 10 goals and 25 points to start the season.

It was a script particularly befitting the club's Disney roots. But the Ducks' Cinderella story has taken a Maleficent-like turn.

Anaheim's regression was slow at first -- a teeter-totter of wins and losses, noticeably fewer goals going in per game -- and then all too quickly they were in…