The Ducks (4-6-0) close out their four-game road trip with a visit to the Flyers (3-6-3) in Philadelphia.
Puck drop is set for 10 a.m. PT and will be broadcast locally on Prime Video and FOXLA+ and nationally on NHL Network.
Anaheim dropped its fifth consecutive game on Thursday, falling 4-1 to the Devils. Though they fell into a 2-0 hole in the first period, Tim Washe’s goal in the third period brought the Ducks within one score. The Devils scored two subsequent goals, one being an empty netter, to close out the game.
“We’ve been behind early in games and we’re trying to chase it to get back,” head coach Joel Quenneville told NHL.com. “Early (in the losing streak) there were a couple games we should have got points. We haven’t been very good on this trip. At the same time, we got to be better than we are.
“We’re a little bit … I’m going to say out of sorts. But it still felt that we had way more battle tonight than we had in the last couple of games.”
As Quenneville noted, playing from behind and starting slow has been a recurring theme to the Ducks’ slump.
But to turn it around, the team is focusing on the finer things, hoping that staying detailed-oriented will get them their first win of this trip.
“We've just got to be focused, we've got to be connected, and we've got to make sure that we check all the boxes, and that starts with simply mentally focusing on the small details,” A.J. Greer said. “We have the offensive skill to produce in the O-zone, and being able to take care of the D-zone, the neutral zone, and defending hard will lead to good offense. So that's our number one goal, is be connected, be ready to fight and battle hard, defend hard, and we're going to get our O-zone opportunities, and then from there we've just got to finish.”
“We've got to play our game, focus on what we have to do,” Quenneville added. “We're trying to get out of this trip we're on and salvage a point or two. That’s our focus. Everybody's got to do the little things right.”
The Flyers started the season 0-6-3 before finally getting their first win last Saturday against the Senators. Since then, the team has been on a three-game winning streak and looks like they’re “back in the mix,” according to Quenneville.
Matvei Michkov and former Duck Trevor Zegras both have eight points on the season while Michkov leads the team in goals (6) and Zegras in assists (5).
The Ducks announced on Friday that they placed Pavel Mintyukov on Injured Reserve with a lower-body injury and in a corresponding move, recalled defenseman Travis Mitchell from the San Diego Gulls.
