THW Anaheim Ducks Substack - Sept. 27, 2023
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In today’s edition, we cover some takeaways from training camp so far and pull a throwback piece about Paul Kariya - the original Mighty Duck - out of the archives.
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5 Takeaways From Anaheim Ducks Training Camp
September 26, 2023 by Evan Sabourin
Training Camp is underway as NHL preseason games kicked off this week. Hockey is back. There’s a certain smell to the air in Southern California, and no, it’s not the smog. We are less than three weeks away from the start of the Anaheim Ducks regular season. A pivotal year lies ahead for first-year head coach Greg Cronin as a young core prepares to take flight under his guidance. There are many questions heading into the season for general manager Pat Verbeek, and how he answers them will be key to the team’s success in 2023-24. After bottoming out with the league’s worst record last season, the organization finds itself starting to see the “light at the end of the tunnel” with one of the top prospect pools in all of hockey. Here’s my five takeaways from this past week at Ducks camp:
Paul Kariya – The Original Mighty Duck
May 4, 2023 by Josh Bell
Paul Kariya was a young phenom, the face of a young franchise. He was given lofty expectations and broke into the league around the same time as two other comparable Hall of Fame players, Pavel Bure and Eric Lindros. He was a solid all-around player and a statesman for the sport of hockey.
His career was marred by concussions and without meaning to, he’s been connected with the awareness of concussions and post-concussion syndrome from hockey ever since his retirement.