When Dan Lanning addressed his team on Monday before the Minnesota game, he showed them a clip from "The Shawshank Redemption," Andy Dufresne chipping through the rock for 20 years, then crawling through the foul sludge to freedom.
"Think about the adversity you faced as a team this season," Lanning said, "Some people look at it as a negative. I look at every piece of adversity we faced so far this season as a positive. Talk about this season being from the dirt."
The weekly talks and presentations provide the Ducks with a kind of psychological armor.