May 25, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 17 segments
Anaheim Ducks season has come to an end with a second-round defeat to the Vegas Golden Knights, and after this surprising Stanley Cup Playoff run, eyes turn toward the offseason. The Sporting Tribune…
Zach CavanaghHostSo it's been a minute, obviously, since the season ended.
It's been about a week now since the Ducks were eliminated by the Vegas Golden Knights in six games.
Don't need to go back and do too much autopsy.
You can see some of that in my immediate reactions afterwards.
We did the exit interviews already as well.
I wrote a big story on that game night about
I felt like in that, in that Vegas series, uh, the Ducks were the better team in four out of the six games.
And I think that's a testament to the growth of this team, that they could hang with a Vegas squad that, I mean, already went into Colorado and took game one from the Avalanche, uh, as of recording this.
But the difference in those i- is that they lost two of those four games that they-- I thought that they were the better team in.
And I think you can chalk some of that up to, some of that is the experience, but some of that is simply Vegas is more battle tested.
Troy Terry, I think, said it best immediately after the game, saying, "You watch a team like Vegas and you see how they manage these games." And, and that, that's the key word there is manage.
Where to, to win a Stanley Cup, to win a playoff series, win a playoff run, you have to take some games in which you're not the better team.
I thought the Ducks even did that against Edmonton, even though I thought the Ducks had a, a more thorough, uh, ownership of the games against Edmonton.
You could say that they won some of those games because the power play was clicking against Edmonton.
And, and those power play goals helped spur them in games where they were already struggling to, to, to defend and keep Edmonton off the board, and they were having to keep pace.
And maybe they weren't able to do that with their five-on-five scoring, but the power play came through and they did that.
Against Vegas, where the power play is negated by a excellent Vegas penalty kill, Vegas does a very good job of managing how the Ducks were gonna come at them.
They didn't allow Anaheim to build up the speed in the neutral zone in some of those games, particularly in the, the games they lost, uh, in, in big fashion in games three and in game six.
So it's been a minute, obviously, since the season ended.
It's been about a week now since the Ducks were eliminated by the Vegas Golden Knights in six games.
Don't need to go back and do too much autopsy.
You can see some of that in my immediate reactions afterwards.
We did the exit interviews already as well.
I wrote a big story on that game night about
I felt like in that, in that Vegas series, uh, the Ducks were the better team in four out of the six games.
And I think that's a testament to the growth of this team, that they could hang with a Vegas squad that, I mean, already went into Colorado and took game one from the Avalanche, uh, as of recording this.
But the difference in those i- is that they lost two of those four games that they-- I thought that they were the better team in.
And I think you can chalk some of that up to, some of that is the experience, but some of that is simply Vegas is more battle tested.
Troy Terry, I think, said it best immediately after the game, saying, "You watch a team like Vegas and you see how they manage these games." And, and that, that's the key word there is manage.
Where to, to win a Stanley Cup, to win a playoff series, win a playoff run, you have to take some games in which you're not the better team.
I thought the Ducks even did that against Edmonton, even though I thought the Ducks had a, a more thorough, uh, ownership of the games against Edmonton.
You could say that they won some of those games because the power play was clicking against Edmonton.
And, and those power play goals helped spur them in games where they were already struggling to, to, to defend and keep Edmonton off the board, and they were having to keep pace.
And maybe they weren't able to do that with their five-on-five scoring, but the power play came through and they did that.
Against Vegas, where the power play is negated by a excellent Vegas penalty kill, Vegas does a very good job of managing how the Ducks were gonna come at them.
They didn't allow Anaheim to build up the speed in the neutral zone in some of those games, particularly in the, the games they lost, uh, in, in big fashion in games three and in game six.
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