2006–07 Anaheim Ducks season

NHLTeamSeason
Season=2006–07
Team=Anaheim Ducks
Conference=Western
ConferenceRank=2nd
Division=Pacific
DivisionRank=1st
Record=48–20–14
HomeRecord=26–6–9
RoadRecord=22–14–5
GoalsFor=258
GoalsAgainst=208
GeneralManager=Brian Burke
Coach=Randy Carlyle
Captain=Scott Niedermayer
AltCaptain=Rob Niedermayer
Chris Pronger
Arena=Honda Center
Attendance=16,363 (95.3%)
GoalsLeader=Teemu Selanne (48)
AssistsLeader=Scott Niedermayer (51)
PointsLeader=Teemu Selanne (94)
PlusMinusLeader=Chris Pronger (+27)
PIMLeader=George Parros (102)
WinsLeader=Jean-Sebastien Giguere (36)
GAALeader=Jean-Sebastien Giguere (2.26)
DivisionWin=Yes
ConferenceWin=Yes
StanleyCup=Yes

The Anaheim Ducks 2006–07 season was the 13th season played by the franchise. It was the team's first season as the Anaheim Ducks.

The season began with a change of face—during the summer, under new ownership, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim changed their team and arena's name, logo, and player uniforms. The change involving their name was dropping the "Mighty" from their name, and completely changing their jerseys to black, gold, orange and white colours rather than the eggplant, jade, silver and white from years past.

Predicted to be a Stanley Cup finals favorite by many,Fact|date=June 2007 the team came out of the gate to set an NHL record by getting at least a point in each of their first 16 games, a streak which ended exactly five weeks after their first game. They went 12–0–4 (28 pts.) before they lost their first regulation game of the year, a 3–0 shutout to the Calgary Flames on November 10, 2006. Behind goaltending by J. S. Giguere and Ilya Bryzgalov, an offense headed by Teemu Selanne, and a defense anchored by Scott Niedermayer and offseason acquisition Chris Pronger, the Ducks had worked their way to the one of the NHL's best records.

On January 9, the NHL announced that Scott Niedermayer had been voted by the fans to start at defense in the 2007 All-Star Game in Dallas. He later declined to appear, deciding to rest a stress fracture in his foot. Ed Jovanovski of the Phoenix Coyotes was added to replace him. Andy McDonald was also added to replace Henrik Zetterberg of the Detroit Red Wings.

The Ducks clinched their first Pacific Division title in team history with 110 standings points, and defeated the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup Finals 4 games to 1.

Regular season

eason standings

December

March

Western Conference Semifinals: vs. (3) Vancouver Canucks

Anaheim wins series 4–1

Season stats

coring leaders

"Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes"

Goaltending

"Note: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime Losses; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average"

References

*Game log: [http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/teams/schedule?team=ana Anaheim Ducks game log] on ESPN.com
*Team standings: [http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/standings NHL standings] on ESPN.com
*Player stats: [http://www.nhl.com/nhlstats/app Anaheim Ducks player stats] on NHL.com

Goaltenders:

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Defensemen

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Forwards

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