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Lame Ducks

January 17, 2018, 6:46 PM ET [105 Comments]
Ryan Wilson
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The flightless birds will make their annual migration to the home of the funny sounding bird. The game against Anaheim will kick off a west coast swing that includes games against the Ducks, Kings, and Sharks.

The Randy Carlyle Ducks have totally departed from whatever they were doing from Bruce Boudreau's Ducks. After finishing second overall in the league in Score-Adjusted Corsi at 53.22% in Boudreau's last year. The Ducks dropped to 50.30% and 17th overall in 2016-17 and now sit 26th overall at 47.56%. Randy Carlyle did a really bad job with the Maple Leafs and appears to be underachieving with a talented enough roster in Anaheim. When you sign Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry to the contracts they did missing the playoffs during the first half of those deals wasn't exactly the plan. Anaheim still has a shot at the playoffs, but as of right now they are four points behind the second wild card and have played in one more game.

For the first time ever the Penguins playing against a team with Andrew Cogliano will not have Andrew Cogliano in the lineup. His impressive iron-man streak came to an end because of his poor choice the other night. He delivered an obvious head shot and deserves his punishment. The streak was impressive given the physical nature of the sport, but it ended with a self-inflicted mistake that he would have definitely been upset about if that was why his streak ended. He can take solace in the fact he was just given a new three-year deal worth 9.75M.

On the Penguins side of things it was revealed what the family matter was that Matt Murray was dealing with. Unfortunately, his father passed away. It's a difficult moment for nearly every human being and would most certainly impact somebody's ability to do whatever job they have.

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