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The Ducks reached into the free-agent pool Wednesday and acquired much-traveled winger Dany Heatley, attempting to add some experience after losing Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu.

Selanne retired after this past season and the Ducks parted ways...

Ducks front-office executive Bob Murray, not relishing the spotlight, survived the moment and his speech after being named the NHL’s general manager of the year.

Soon after, he received kudos from a crosstown rival and peer, Kings General...

Hockey is the ultimate team game, which is what makes the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded annually to the playoff's most valuable player, such an anomaly.

Individual versus team award?

Most winners will tell you that, as kids, they lie...

After becoming the first team to reach the Stanley Cup Final by winning three series in Game 7, all on the road, the Kings' five-game series victory over the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup almost seemed abrupt — except that all three...

It is proving to be a taut competition, changing by the game, shifting momentum and all that you come to expect at the highest level of sport.

The Stanley Cup Final?

Not exactly.

Things have a way of turning in a playoff...

The coach's words were firm and his tone suggested he wasn't asking the impossible of someone he knows well.

Kings center Anze Kopitar is leading NHL playoff scorers with 24 points in 22 games and has been instrumental in the run that has...

The Kings became the first team to reach the Stanley Cup Final by winning three series in Game 7, all on the road. That journey included coming back from a 3-0 series deficit to the San Jose Sharks in Round 1, rebounding from a 3-2 deficit in Round 2...

John Gibson made it sound so simple.

"We knew they were capable of coming back. We just had to get the job done and find a way," the Ducks' rookie goalie said after his team stood up to a final, furious Kings rally Monday night at Honda...

The Ducks' Devante Smith-Pelly appears to be wise well beyond his 21 years. Or he just knows what he's doing.

Or both.

Smith-Pelly has spent the past month providing big goals at big moments. That continued Monday in the Ducks' 4-3...

DALLAS — If there's a line of sportsmanship that shouldn't be crossed, Ryan Getzlaf's judgment is that you shouldn't throw a left hook at a guy whose face is severely stitched up.

Yet, that and other unwritten rules were fudged Monday...

DALLAS — It’s not just about getting under the Ducks’ skin with the Dallas Stars, it’s about penetrating their minds.

The evidence includes Antoine Roussel’s Game 3 punch directed at Ryan Getzlaf’s cut-up...

DALLAS -- Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf was scratched from the Game 4 lineup Wednesday with an
upper-body injury, the team announced minutes before the 5 p.m. game.

Getzlaf, with 31 goals and 56 assists during the season, has two goals and two...

DALLAS — The captain is hurt, the goalie is shaken, old demons are at the door.

The top-seeded Ducks are now in a three-game fight for survival against an energetic, upset-minded Dallas Stars team that roared back Wednesday for a 4-2...

It will be a game-time decision whether Ryan Getzlaf will play Friday in Game 5 of the Ducks' deadlocked first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Dallas Stars.

The team's leading scorer missed Wednesday's 4-2...

Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf returned to practice with his team for the first time since Monday but didn’t definitively say if he was playing in Friday night’s Game 5 of the Western Conference playoffs.

The Ducks’ first-round...

The Ducks knew they could count on home-ice advantage, not necessarily their power-play prowess.

However, in a moment-of-truth Game 5 played before another standing-room-only crowd at Honda Center, they beat the Dallas Stars, 6-2, by setting...

DALLAS -- Ducks forward Matt Beleskey, who has missed four playoff games with a lower body injury, returned to skate Sunday morning and is expected to play tonight in Game 6 of the Western Conference first-round series.

The Ducks, leading 3-...

DALLAS -- Lindy Ruff did an outstanding job in coaching the Stars to the playoffs for the first time since 2008, taking a team that’s almost evenly split between veterans and kids and molding it into a competitive group that has...

DALLAS — Nick Bonino has been a part of 28 comeback wins with the Ducks this season. Sunday night was the steepest — and most significant — yet.

Bonino lifted the Ducks to a 5-4 overtime victory over the Dallas Stars as top-...

Corey Perry, opportunistic and crafty, saw the opening, took advantage and pulled off the trick against the Kings.

Unfortunately, it had nothing to do with scoring.

The Kings, by virtue of their 3-1 win against the Ducks on Monday night...