Author: KyleNicolas

Best and Worst: Ducks Start Road Trip With Woeful 3-0 Loss to Colorado

By KyleNicolas | Mar 6th 2019 | 5 min read |

Worst: Learn a Little Respect The four worst possession teams in the NHL this season are the Arizona Coyotes, the Vancouver Canucks, the New Jersey De...

Anaheim Ducks Training Camp 2015: Thoughts and Highlights from Day 2

By KyleNicolas | Mar 5th 2019 | 7 min read |

Saturday’s event, held at Anaheim Ice, was well-attended. Take with a grain of salt the market, but there were easily several hundred people the...

2015 Season In Review: Rickard Rakell

By KyleNicolas | Mar 5th 2019 | 5 min read |

The Anaheim Ducks drafted Rickard Rakell with the 30th overall pick in 2011, a pick acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs, who had originally also acq...

Five Up, Five Down : Ducks vs. Jets Game Two

By KyleNicolas | Mar 4th 2019 | 6 min read |

This series is painful. However, it would be a hell of a lot more painful if the Anaheim Ducks hadn’t created some late drama to take a 2-0 lead...

Shot Plots: A Study in Quality of Possession (Part Two)

By KyleNicolas | Mar 4th 2019 | 22 min read |

Welcome back. In part one, I outlined the main premise of this study and laid the foundations for my research. Continuing on now to part two, I’...

The Callies - AC's End of Season Awards 2015: Best Forward

By KyleNicolas | Mar 4th 2019 | 12 min read |

Yet another season is nearly in the books so it's time to once again welcome you to our annual end-of-season series in which you get to vote on th...

Top 25 Ducks of All Time #10: Andy McDonald

By KyleNicolas | Mar 2nd 2019 | 3 min read |

We’re into the top 10. From this point forward each player is going to receive their own post to commemorate their accomplishments both with the...

Ducks Hang on for Dear Life Again, Win 4-3; Take 3-2 Series Lead

By KyleNicolas | Feb 27th 2019 | 9 min read |

Final Score: Ducks 4, Kings 3 First Period Recap: For quite possibly the first time in this entire round, the Ducks were the ones hot on the gas right...

Know Thy Enemy: Los Angeles Kings Power Play Preview

By KyleNicolas | Feb 27th 2019 | 3 min read |

The Los Angeles Kings finished the regular season at 15.1% on the power play, good enough for 27th in the league out of 30 teams. If that’s not ...

AC Staff Playoff Prediction Challenge 2014: Round Two

By KyleNicolas | Feb 27th 2019 | 22 min read |

Round one is in the books, so let's take a look at how the AC Staff fared through the first eight series of games. All settled, nobody was a perfe...