September 29, 2007
Ducks - Kings begin NHL season today
Anaheim and Los Angeles will bounce off the 2007-08 NHL season today at noon Eastern time in the jolly ol' city of London.
While no one is really quite sure why the sport has decided to travel to the U.K., we do know it's no drop in the ocean that the defending champs will be starting the season without Scott Neidermeyer or Teemu Selanne.
J.S. Giguere's offseason sports hernia surgery has thrown a spanner into the Ducks' goaltending situation too, but Ilya Bryzgalov has shown his tuppence worth in the past and Anaheim is hoping he has the goolies to help defend their championship.
Anaheim has named Chris 'scallywag' Pronger team captain in his second season with the Ducks. Now that the old woman is happy in Cali after she made things go pear-shaped in Edmonton, all is green in Pronger-land.
LA's new roster is nothing to bat an eyelid at either. They've got plenty of talent over there now but goaltending is an issue.
Alas, I've wittered on long enough... These two teams will play twice this weekend before they bugger off back to the states for the rest of the season.
So get ready, and top of the morning to you. Bollocks, that's not right. This week of college football peaked last night. It's hockey season.
