In their final game before the All-Star break and bye week, the Ducks will take on the San Jose Sharks.
The Sharks are coming in on the second game of a back-to-back, succinctly referred to as a SEGABABA primarily in the NBA Twitter community (we're going to make it an NHL Twitter thing too, I'm telling ya).
Anaheim is looking to build off their last game, a 3-2 win against the Minnesota Wild.
The last Ducks-Sharks matchup was in San Jose just a couple of weeks ago, with the Sharks taking that one by a score of 5-3.
"We controlled that game for two periods," said Ducks head coach Greg Cronin. "We had way more scoring chances, but they're opportunistic and they scored."
"This game's totally going to be about how hard we compete and how aggressive we're going to play these games before the break and get a little bit of looseness to them."
Fast Facts:
-The Ducks are 2-7-1 against teams on a SEGABABA.
-The Sharks are 3-3-1 in SEGABABAs.
-Anaheim has won the last two SJS-ANA matchups at Honda Center, the last one coming on Nov. 12, 2023 (4-1).
-Troy Terry is currently on a five-game point streak after scoring two goals on Saturday.
Ducks Projected Lines:
Adam Henrique - Leo Carlsson - Ryan Strome
Frank Vatrano - Bo Groulx - Troy Terry
Isac Lundeström - Mason McTavish - Jakob Silfverberg
Ross Johnston - Sam Carrick - Brett Leason
Olen Zellweger - Cam Fowler
Jackson LaCombe - Radko Gudas
Urho Vaakanainen - Ilya Lyubushkin
John Gibson
Sharks Projected Lines:
Mike Hoffman - Logan Couture - Fabian Zetterlund
Anthony Duclair - William Eklund- Alexander Barabanov
Jacob MacDonald - Nico Sturm - Luke Kunin
Justin Bailey - Ryan Carpenter - Filip Zadina
Shakir Mukhamadullin - Jan Rutta
Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Kyle Burroughs
Nikita Okhotiuk - Calen Addison
Kaapo Kähkönen