The Anaheim Ducks spent the first month of the season equally torching both scoreboards and expectations. They sit atop the Pacific Division after roughly the first quarter of the season, which is something no one had penciled into a pre-season projection.
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan are fast approaching, and excitement is building across the NHL for its return to the Games for the first time since Sochi in 2014.
Cutter Gauthier scored at 3:57 of overtime as the Anaheim Ducks rallied for a 4-3 victory over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night. Gautier,
The Anaheim Ducks are turning heads throughout the league. Their 4-3 overtime home win against the Las Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday pushed their record to 14-7-1.
The Anaheim Ducks are the toast of the town in the NHL. General Manager Pat Verbeek believed his team would be a playoff team this season. Lots of people rolled their eyes.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
The 2025-26 NHL season to this point has been marked by several young, up-and-coming teams playing like they may be closer to legitimate contender status than previously thought.
This is a spicy one. The red-hot Anaheim Ducks may be forced to move their former top 10 pick, Pavel Mintyukov. It was reported earlier this week that if Mintyukov can’t find his way into this Ducks rotation as more than just a depth piece, he may want out.
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet: Talk is that if Anaheim Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov isn’t going to play more – was a healthy scratch for (three) consecutive games – he’d like to be traded.
In his recent 32 Thoughts blog, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that Anaheim Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov is upset with being scratched in back-to-back games.
After a brief losing stint of three games on the road, the Ducks were able to return to Honda Center this week and get back to their winning ways in the most dramatic fashion.
The high-flying Anaheim Ducks have been among the NHL’s biggest surprises this season. They rank first in the Pacific Division, led by a dominant young core just starting to find its wings.
The Anaheim Ducks might be the number-one “feel good” story in the NHL right now. A year after after missing the playoffs for the seventh straight season, the Ducks find themselves at the top of the Pacific Division standings with 27 points in 20 games.
Welcome back to another edition of NHL Rumours from the crew at Last Word on Hockey. With the season settling in and clubs beginning to separate themselves, teams are making difficult choices about playing time, development, and long-term fit.
At roughly the one-quarter mark of the season, the Anaheim Ducks are in a position that few hockey pundits could have predicted: atop the Pacific Division standings.
The Anaheim Ducks are surging under new head coach Joel Quenneville to start the 2025-26 season. They are 13-6-1, atop the Pacific Division, but not everyone is happy in Southern California.
Defenseman Ian Moore scored the go-ahead goal with 3:35 left in the third period and Lukas Dostal made 36 saves, lifting the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Wednesday.
The Anaheim Ducks are having a solid season. The team currently leads the Pacific Division, and Leo Carlsson has been mentioned as a potential Hart Memorial Trophy candidate.
The Anaheim Ducks are expected to welcome back their captain this evening. According to Derek Lee of The Hockey News, the Ducks will activate defenseman Radko Gudas tonight, and he’ll be in the lineup against the Utah Mammoth.
The 2025-26 NHL season is just over a month old, which means we now have a large enough sample size to start making more educated predictions on player and team accolades. Here are five leading candidates for the Hart Trophy.
The Anaheim Ducks have been one of the pleasant surprises through the first month and a bit of the season. After coming up well short of a playoff spot for the past several years, they enter play Wednesday sitting atop the Pacific Division.
The Anaheim Ducks were supposed to be a fun young team this season — promising, energetic, but still a year or two away from real contention. Instead, they’ve become one of the NHL’s biggest surprises.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Somehow the Anaheim Ducks have morphed from perennial rebuild into bona-fide threat, and the rising tide of the 2025-26 season is beginning to float this franchise in ways that would’ve seemed optimistic not long ago.
The Anaheim Ducks entered the 2025–26 NHL season projected to scrap for a wild-card spot. A month later, they sit first in the NHL’s Pacific Division at 11-3-1, riding a six-game winning streak and ranking second in the league by points percentage.
Thanks to a seven-year playoff drought entering this season the Anaheim Ducks have not really been on the NHL's league-wide radar lately. They should be now.