Facts and Figures: Anaheim's 2021-22 Season in Review

Anaheim completed the 2021-22 season with a 31-37-14 record for 76 points. The Ducks season included an eight-game win streak (Oct. 31-Nov. 16), several landmark moments in his final season from Ryan Getzlaf, a breakout season from Troy Terry (37 goals) and multiple "viral" goals from Trevor Zegras, who set several rookie club records. Anaheim's special teams improved from last season, with the power play climbing 17 places and penalty kill improving to 10th among NHL clubs. The Ducks power play scored 48 goals (48-242, 21.9%), the second-highest mark by the club the last 11 seasons (2015-16, 56 goals and 23.1%).

GETZLAF'S GOODBYE: Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf appeared in his final career NHL game on Sunday, April 24 vs. St. Louis. Getzlaf retires as Anaheim's all-time leading scorer in both the regular season (282-737=1,019) and playoffs (37-83=120). He is one of 12 players in NHL history to have captained the same team for 10 years and scored 1,000 career points. He is one of 13 players in hockey history to win two Olympic gold medals and a Stanley Cup championship, and one of 46 NHL players to record 1,000 points with a single franchise (more than 7,400 players have played in the NHL to date). Getzlaf currently ranks in the top 100 on the NHL's all-time points (88th) and assists (49th) lists, and is one of 58 players in NHL history with 700 assists.

TERRY TIME: Troy Terry set career highs in points (37-30=67), goals, assists, PPG (8) and GWG (7), leading Anaheim in scoring, goals and GWG. He became the fifth Ducks player to score 35 goals in a season, joining Teemu Selanne (five times), Paul Kariya (four times), Corey Perry (three times) and Bobby Ryan (once), and the first since 2013-14 (Perry, 43). He is also the ninth player in Ducks history to record 60 points and ninth to score 30 goals and add 30 assists (last: Rakell, 34-35=69 in 2017-18). He recorded a career-best 16-game point streak from Oct. 18-Nov. 18 (12-10=22), the third longest in Ducks history and the longest since Corey Perry's club record of 19 games in 2009-10 (10-16=26). The point streak was also the third longest in the NHL this season behind Edmonton's Connor McDavid and St. Louis' Robert Thomas (each 17 games).

CALDER CANDIDATE: Trevor Zegras was named a finalist for the 2021-22 Calder Trophy, awarded "to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition" on May 11. He is the third player in franchise history to be named a Calder Trophy finalist (no Duck has won the trophy), joining Bobby Ryan in 2008-09 (finished second in voting) and Paul Kariya in 1994-95 (finished third in voting). Zegras completed the regular season leading all NHL rookies in points per game (.81, minimum 40 points), power-play goals (9), co-leading in game-winning goals (5), while ranking second in points, tied for second in goals and third in assists. He also led all NHL skaters with six shootout goals. He is one of 15 NHL rookies the last 10 seasons (since 2012-13) to record 60 or more points, and the third American to do so (also Auston Matthews and Clayton Keller). At 21 years and 41 days, Zegras became the youngest player in Anaheim history to lead the club in assists.

VIRAL MOMENTS: Trevor Zegras scored two lacrosse-style goals, Apr. 1 at Arizona and Jan. 27, 2022 at Montreal, one of two players in NHL history to score two such goals (also Carolina's Andrei Svechnikov: Oct. 29, 2019 vs. Calgary and Dec. 19, 2019 at Colorado). His goal Apr. 1 marked the fifth lacrosse-style goal all-time in the NHL, with Zegras (twice), Svechnikov (twice) and Nashville's Filip Forsberg (Jan. 14, 2020 vs. Columbus) the only three NHL players to pull off "The Michigan" goal. On Dec. 7 at Buffalo, Zegras assisted on Sonny Milano's goal with a lacrosse-style "alley-oop" pass, lifting the puck onto his stick and flipping it over the net, with Milano batting the puck out of mid-air to score. It is one the only instance in NHL history a goal has been scored with a lacrosse-style pass from behind the net. The Zegras- Milano "alley-oop" goal was viewed more than 50 million times over a 48-hour span across various social and digital media platforms from Dec. 7-9.

ROOKIE RECORD SETTER: Zegras recorded 23-38=61 points in 75 games, setting Ducks single-season rookie records in scoring and assists, surpassing Bobby Ryan (31-26=57 in 2008-09) for points and Cam Fowler (30 assists in 2010-11) in helpers. He is also Anaheim's all-time leading rookie scorer with and 26-48=74 points all-time.
ANAHEIM'S ACQUISITIONS: The Ducks named Pat Verbeek the sixth General Manager in franchise history on Feb. 3. Prior to the 2022 Trade Deadline, Verbeek made his first transactions leading the club. The Ducks acquired six picks in the first three rounds of the next three NHL Drafts and seven players. Anaheim draft picks include a 2022 first (Boston), 2022 second (Pittsburgh), two 2023 seconds (Boston & Colorado), one 2024 second (Colorado) and a 2023 third (Minnesota). Players joining the Ducks organization are 23-year-old D Urho Vaakanainen, 20-year-old D prospect Drew Helleson, 19-year old G prospect Calle Clang and three NHL veterans: LW Zack Aston-Reese and C Dominik Simon and RW Gerry Mayhew (waivers).
MORE ON GETZLAF: Getzlaf passed Teemu Selanne for Anaheim's all-time points record with an assist on the GWG Oct. 31 vs. MTL, marking his 989th career point with the Ducks (279-710=989). In 2007, he led the Ducks to their first Stanley Cup in 2007 as the leading scorer during the championship run (7-10=17) while he set a franchise record for the most points in a single postseason in 2015 (2-18=20). Getzlaf led the Ducks in assists for 13 straight seasons (2007-20), one of two players in NHL history to do so with a single club (also Anze Kopitar), and one of four players to lead their respective team in assists for 13 seasons. Getzlaf (13 seasons), Kopitar (14 seasons), Wayne Gretzky (1979-92) and Joe Thornton (2002-16). Getzlaf also led the Ducks in scoring in seven of his 17 seasons, while he recorded 30-or-more assists in 14 seasons. Getzlaf's 1,019 career points have contributed to 43% of Anaheim's all-time 2,343 goals scored in franchise history, while the captain appeared in more than half of the club's 2,191 all-time games (1,158 games by Getzlaf, 53%).

MR. 1,000: Ryan Getzlaf became the 92nd player all-time to record 1,000 points (280-720=1000) with a primary assist Nov. 16 vs. WSH. At the time of his 1,000th point, he became the 39th player (seventh active) in NHL history to record his first 1,000 points all with the same club and the 45th player all-time to record 1,000 points with a single franchise. Of the 29 retired players to record their first 1,000 points with a single franchise, 26 have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame (an additional 11 players, including Getzlaf, are not yet eligible).
MORE ON ZEGRAS: He scored 12 go-ahead goals this season, five more than any other rookie in 2021-22 (Tanner Jeannot, 7). Since 2005-06 (17 seasons), only eight other NHL rookies have scored more go-ahead goals than Zegras: Alex Ovechkin (22 in 2005-06), Sidney Crosby (14 in 2005-06), Petr Prucha (14 in 2005-06), Evgeni Malkin (14 in 2005-06), Logan Couture (13 in 2010-11), Mark Stone (13 in 2014-15), Anders Lee (13 in 2014-15) and Matthews (20 in 2016-17). He also led all rookies with 19 multi-point games, becoming only the eighth rookie to do so since 2005, joining Ovechkin, Crosby, Malkin, Artemi Panarin, Mathew Barzal, Patrik Laine and Paul Stastny. His 19 multi-point games are five more than any other rookie in 2021-22 (Bunting, 14).
ALL-STARS: John Gibson and Troy Terry represented Anaheim at the 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas from Feb. 4-5. Gibson and Terry marked the 11th time Anaheim had multiple All-Star representatives. Trevor Zegras was invited by the NHL to participate in the Breakaway Challenge at the NHL All-Star Skills Feb. 4, creating a viral moment as he dressed as a character from Dodgeball the movie and scored a goal while dodging balls thrown by league mascots.

WIN 1,000: The Ducks won the 1,000th game in franchise history Nov. 16, a 3-2 OT win over Washington at Honda Center. Anaheim's 1,000th win came in the 2,127th game in franchise history, with only five teams in NHL history needing fewer games to reach 1,000 wins: Philadelphia (2,018), Montreal (2,064), San Jose (2,112), Edmonton (2,115) and Buffalo (2,118).

WWWWWWWWIN STREAK: Anaheim recorded a season-high best eight straight wins from Oct. 31-Nov. 16, the club's first eight-game win streak since Feb. 13-Mar. 5, 2016 (11-0-0). The win streak was tied for the third-longest in club history (also 8-0-0, Dec. 31, 2013-Jan. 15, 2014). During the win streak, Anaheim outscored opponents 33-14 (4.1 goals per game), leading the NHL in goals (33) and PPG (9-of-29, 31.0%), while killing 15-of-16 penalties (93.8%). John Gibson and Anthony Stolarz combined to post a league-best 1.63 GAA and .945 SV% in the eight games.
POINTING IT OUT: Anaheim earned standings points in 10 straight games from Oct. 28-Nov. 16 (8-0-2), the longest point streak by the Ducks since Mar. 12-Apr. 9, 2016-17 (11-0-3). The point streak marked only the seventh time in club history recording points in 10-or-more consecutive games.
FIRST DRAFT: Jacob Perreault (27th overall in 2020) and Brayden Tracey (29th overall in 2019) made their NHL debuts on back-to-back nights, Jan. 8 vs. NYR and Jan. 9 vs. DET, respectively. Tracey became the fifth Ducks first-round draft selection from the last three drafts (2019, 2020 and 2021) to appear in an NHL game, joining Trevor Zegras (ninth overall in 2019), Jamie Drysdale (sixth overall in 2020), Perreault and Mason McTavish (third overall in 2021). Anaheim leads all NHL clubs with five players selected in the first round since 2019 to play in the NHL (NJD, LAK &COL: 3). Each of Anaheim's last 17 first round picks have now made their NHL debut with the club (13 drafts, since 2009). Altogether, seven Ducks made their NHL debuts in 2021-22: Lukas Dostal, Hunter Drew, Bo Groulx, Bryce Kindopp, Mason McTavish, Jacob Perreault and Brayden Tracey.

DYNAMIC DEBUT: Mason McTavish became the youngest Duck to score a goal at 18 years, 256 days in Anaheim's season opener Oct. 13 vs. WPG, surpassing the previous mark set by Oleg Tverdovsky (18 years, 259 days) on Feb. 1, 1995 at DAL. Among all NHL players, McTavish is the youngest to score in his debut in five years exactly (Patrik Laine of WPG vs. CAR, Oct. 13, 2016) and the seventh youngest in 25 years (Laine, Jesse Puljujarvi, Aleksander Barkov, Rick Nash, Nikita Filatov, Marian Gaborik). In addition, McTavish is the second youngest player to score within 15 minutes of his NHL debut (scored at 13:20 of the first period) in over 25 years (Filatov, Oct. 17, 2008 of CBJ vs. NSH) and the sixth youngest to do so in NHL history. McTavish also added an assist, becoming the sixth player in Ducks history to record multiple points in his NHL debut (last: Jamie Drysdale, Mar. 18, 2020 vs. ARI; 1-1=2). Only two players in Ducks history tallied more in their NHL debut with the club: Stanislav Chistov (1-3-4 on Oct. 10, 2002 @ STL) and Alex Hicks (2-1=3 on Nov. 15, 1995 vs. COL).