1998–99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season

The 1998–99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season was the sixth season in franchise history.

1998–99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Division3rd Pacific
1998–99 record35–34–13
Goals for215
Goals against206
Team information
General managerPierre Gauthier
CoachCraig Hartsburg
CaptainPaul Kariya
ArenaArrowhead Pond of Anaheim

Off-season

The roster was shaken up a lot during the previous season and only a few changes took place in the summer. The Ducks traded Dave Karpa and a 2000 4th round pick to the Carolina Hurricanes for Kevin Haller and Stu Grimson on June 18. Two months later they acquired Jim Mckenzie for Jean-Francois Jomphe on August 11. They signed veteran Fredrik Olausson, who was with the Ducks before, to give the team scoring from the blue line, and Pascal Trepanier. Rookies Antti Aalto and Johan Davidsson made the roster while Mike Crowley who played very well last season would see more ice time with the parent team.

For the first time since the Ducks traded Ron Tugnutt to the Montreal Canadiens in 1994 the team saw just their second change in net, losing Mikhail Shtalenkov to the Nashville Predators in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft. That left them with Prospects Patrick Lalime and Chris Mason for the back up position. Just before the season started the Ducks acquired Dominic Roussel from the Nashville Predators for Chris Mason and Marc Moro on October 5, 1998 which gave the team more experience in case Hebert would be sidelined like last season. Days later they sent Doug Houda to Detroit on October 9.

Regular season

The season was much more consistent than last season. Anaheim started off slow, losing their first three games and scoring only one goal but was unbeaten the next six games. On October 27, 1998 they added Marty McInnes, a key player who gave them more scoring depth for the team's upcoming success and dominating Powerplay. On November 8 Tomas Sandstrom suffered a broken left wrist which kept him sidelined until late December thus relying more on their star players and hoping for others to fill the void. The team managed to comeback a few times after going winless some games and even put up winning streaks like in early December (4-0-2) and early February (4-0-0). January turned out to be the very tough going 4-9-1 and winless (0-5-1) a second time since late November. Overall the Ducks were hovering around the .500 mark fighting to go to the post season.

In February the team pushed themselves into the Play Off as the Mighty Ducks went 13-3-1 from February 3 until March 10 including a team record seven game winning streak. The Ducks finished the season 6 in the west as the team was unable to maintain their amazing run. The Blues only lost 1 game in their last nine games where as the Ducks only won one game out of their last seven, ironically against the Coyotes, missing out on 5th place facing Phoenix rather than the Red Wings.

During that 7 game-winning-streak the team only allowed 1 goal in each of those games, highlighting the great goaltending of Guy Hebert, who had a career year and his best season since 1996/97. Dominic Roussel also enjoyed a stellar comeback in the NHL as the team's backup. Both goalies provided excellent goaltending for the Ducks, each posting a save percentage above .920 as well as a superb GAA. Those great numbers were supported by their Defense as the team allowed 55 goals less than last year. Offensively the Ducks only scored 10 goals more than last season and relied heavily on their first line ( Kariya - Rucchin - Selanne ) combining for 109 goals. Additional scoring was only provided by Marty McInnes (17 goals), Fredrik Olausson (16 goals) and Tomas Sandstrom (15 goals), who missed 24 games due to injury. Matt Cullen enjoyed a good second season, tallying 11 goals which was almost double than last year while Travis Green only scored 13 goals and 30 points which was below expectation.

The Mighty Ducks finished the regular season with the most power-play goals, 83, and the best power-play percentage, 21.96% (83 for 378) in the NHL.[1]

Final standings
Pacific Division
R CR GP W L T GF GA Pts
11Dallas Stars82511912236168114
24Phoenix Coyotes8239311220519790
36Mighty Ducks of Anaheim8235341321520683
47San Jose Sharks8231331819619180
511Los Angeles Kings823245518922269

[2]

Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
         Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.

Western Conference[3]
R Div GP W L T GF GA Pts
1p – Dallas StarsPAC82511912236168114
2y – Colorado AvalancheNW8244281023920598
3y – Detroit Red WingsCEN824332724520293
4Phoenix CoyotesPAC8239311220519790
5St. Louis BluesCEN8237321323720987
6Mighty Ducks of AnaheimPAC8235341321520683
7San Jose SharksPAC8231331819619180
8Edmonton OilersNW8233371223022678
9Calgary FlamesNW8230401221123472
10Chicago BlackhawksCEN8229411220224870
11Los Angeles KingsPAC823245518922269
12Nashville PredatorsCEN822847719026163
13Vancouver CanucksNW8223471219225858

Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific, NW – Northwest

bold – Qualified for playoffs; p – Won Presidents' Trophy; y – Won division

Schedule and results
Regular season schedule
No. R Date Score Opponent Record
1LOctober 10, 19980–1@ Washington Capitals (1998–99)0–1–0
2LOctober 11, 19981–4@ Philadelphia Flyers (1998–99)0–2–0
3LOctober 13, 19980–1@ Montreal Canadiens (1998–99)0–3–0
4WOctober 15, 19985–3@ Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)1–3–0
5WOctober 21, 19983–0Boston Bruins (1998–99)2–3–0
6TOctober 25, 19982–2 OTPhoenix Coyotes (1998–99)2–3–1
7WOctober 28, 19985–3Tampa Bay Lightning (1998–99)3–3–1
8TOctober 30, 19983–3 OT@ Dallas Stars (1998–99)3–3–2
9TOctober 31, 19982–2 OT@ St. Louis Blues (1998–99)3–3–3
10LNovember 4, 19981–3St. Louis Blues (1998–99)3–4–3
11TNovember 6, 19982–2 OTSan Jose Sharks (1998–99)3–4–4
12LNovember 8, 19982–3Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)3–5–4
13WNovember 11, 19985–4 OTCarolina Hurricanes (1998–99)4–5–4
14LNovember 13, 19982–5@ Vancouver Canucks (1998–99)4–6–4
15WNovember 14, 19981–0@ Calgary Flames (1998–99)5–6–4
16WNovember 16, 19983–1Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)6–6–4
17WNovember 18, 19983–1New York Rangers (1998–99)7–6–4
18LNovember 20, 19982–3 OTEdmonton Oilers (1998–99)7–7–4
19WNovember 22, 19984–1Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)8–7–4
20LNovember 25, 19982–5@ Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)8–8–4
21LNovember 27, 19981–3@ Nashville Predators (1998–99)8–9–4
22LNovember 29, 19981–3@ Carolina Hurricanes (1998–99)8–10–4
23TDecember 1, 19984–4 OT@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1998–99)8–10–5
24LDecember 3, 19981–4@ Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)8–11–5
25WDecember 6, 19982–1@ San Jose Sharks (1998–99)9–11–5
26TDecember 9, 19984–4 OTVancouver Canucks (1998–99)9–11–6
27WDecember 11, 19981–0Washington Capitals (1998–99)10–11–6
28WDecember 13, 19983–0Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)11–11–6
29WDecember 16, 19986–1Nashville Predators (1998–99)12–11–6
30TDecember 18, 19982–2 OTNew York Islanders (1998–99)12–11–7
31LDecember 21, 19982–4Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)12–12–7
32WDecember 22, 19981–0@ Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)13–12–7
33TDecember 28, 19982–2 OT@ Ottawa Senators (1998–99)13–12–8
34LDecember 30, 19981–4@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1998–99)13–13–8
35WJanuary 1, 19997–2@ Buffalo Sabres (1998–99)14–13–8
36LJanuary 2, 19991–2@ Boston Bruins (1998–99)14–14–8
37LJanuary 4, 19991–2@ Nashville Predators (1998–99)14–15–8
38LJanuary 6, 19992–3 OTBuffalo Sabres (1998–99)14–16–8
39WJanuary 8, 19994–1Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)15–16–8
40WJanuary 10, 19996–4Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)16–16–8
41LJanuary 13, 19991–2Calgary Flames (1998–99)16–17–8
42LJanuary 15, 19991–3Dallas Stars (1998–99)16–18–8
43WJanuary 18, 19995–3Pittsburgh Penguins (1998–99)17–18–8
44LJanuary 20, 19993–4New Jersey Devils (1998–99)17–19–8
45TJanuary 21, 19993–3 OT@ Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)17–19–9
46LJanuary 27, 19993–4Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)17–20–9
47LJanuary 28, 19992–6@ Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)17–21–9
48LJanuary 30, 19990–1@ Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)17–22–9
49WFebruary 3, 19993–0Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)18–22–9
50WFebruary 5, 19995–3@ Tampa Bay Lightning (1998–99)19–22–9
51WFebruary 6, 19994–3@ St. Louis Blues (1998–99)20–22–9
52WFebruary 10, 19995–4Philadelphia Flyers (1998–99)21–22–9
53LFebruary 12, 19992–3Dallas Stars (1998–99)21–23–9
54WFebruary 14, 19995–1@ Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)22–23–9
55WFebruary 15, 19993–1@ Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)23–23–9
56LFebruary 17, 19992–6Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)23–24–9
57LFebruary 19, 19993–6@ Calgary Flames (1998–99)23–25–9
58WFebruary 20, 19995–1@ Vancouver Canucks (1998–99)24–25–9
59WFebruary 24, 19992–1@ Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)25–25–9
60WFebruary 26, 19993–1San Jose Sharks (1998–99)26–25–9
61WFebruary 27, 19994–1@ San Jose Sharks (1998–99)27–25–9
62WMarch 3, 19992–1Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)28–25–9
63WMarch 5, 19993–2Nashville Predators (1998–99)29–25–9
64WMarch 7, 19993–1Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)30–25–9
65TMarch 10, 19994–4 OTVancouver Canucks (1998–99)30–25–10
66LMarch 12, 19990–4@ Dallas Stars (1998–99)30–26–10
67LMarch 13, 19990–1@ Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)30–27–10
68TMarch 17, 19992–2 OTOttawa Senators (1998–99)30–27–11
69WMarch 18, 19994–2@ Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)31–27–11
70LMarch 21, 19992–5Florida Panthers (1998–99)31–28–11
71WMarch 26, 19995–1Dallas Stars (1998–99)32–28–11
72WMarch 28, 19995–1Calgary Flames (1998–99)33–28–11
73LMarch 31, 19991–7@ New Jersey Devils (1998–99)33–29–11
74WApril 2, 19994–1@ New York Rangers (1998–99)34–29–11
75TApril 3, 19992–2 OT@ New York Islanders (1998–99)34–29–12
76LApril 5, 19992–3@ Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)34–30–12
77LApril 7, 19991–5@ Dallas Stars (1998–99)34–31–12
78LApril 9, 19991–4San Jose Sharks (1998–99)34–32–12
79WApril 11, 19993–0Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)35–32–12
80LApril 14, 19991–3St. Louis Blues (1998–99)35–33–12
81LApril 15, 19993–4 OT@ Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)35–34–12
82TApril 17, 19993–3 OT@ San Jose Sharks (1998–99)35–34–13

[4]

Playoffs

The Mighty Ducks met the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs. The Wings swept the Mighty Ducks in four games.

Late in Game 3 Stu Grimson cross-checked Kris Draper in the face in front of the Red Wings which caused a brawl between both teams.

Game 1: Mighty Ducks 3, Detroit 5

Game 2: Mighty Ducks 1, Detroit 5

Game 3: Detroit 4, Mighty Ducks 2

Game 4: Detroit 3, Mighty Ducks 0

Detroit Wins Series 4-0

Player statistics

Regular season
Scoring
Player GP G A Pts PIM
Teemu Selanne75476010730
Paul Kariya82396210140
Steve Rucchin6923396222
Fredrik Olausson7416405630
Marty McInnis7518345236
Tomas Sandstrom5815173242
Travis Green7913173081
Matt Cullen7511142547
Ruslan Salei742141665
Ted Drury75561183
Jim McKenzie7354999
Jeff Nielsen8054934
Antti Aalto7335824
Johan Davidsson6435814
Jason Marshall72178142
Kevin Haller82167122
Pascal Trepanier4524648
Mike Crowley2023516
Pavel Trnka6304460
Stu Grimson73303158
Jamie Pushor70123112
Scott Ferguson20110
Guy Hebert690110
Josef Marha100110
Mike Leclerc70004
Dominic Roussel180000
Dan Trebil60000
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
Guy Hebert408369312991652.4221141949.9226
Dominic Roussel88418454372.51478441.9231
Team:4967823534132022.4425922390.9227

Playoffs
Scoring
Player GP G A Pts PIM
Teemu Selanne42242
Paul Kariya31340
Steve Rucchin40330
Marty McInnis42022
Fredrik Olausson40224
Jason Marshall410110
Travis Green40114
Pavel Trnka40112
Antti Aalto40002
Tom Askey10000
Matt Cullen40000
Johan Davidsson10000
Ted Drury40000
Stu Grimson300030
Kevin Haller40002
Guy Hebert40000
Mike Leclerc10000
Jim McKenzie40004
Jeff Nielsen40002
Jamie Pushor40006
Ruslan Salei30004
Tomas Sandstrom40004
Dan Trebil10002
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
Tom Askey3010124.00119.8180
Guy Hebert208403154.33124109.8790
Team:238404174.29135118.8740

[5]

Transactions

Acquired Marty McInnes from the Chicago Blackhawks ( previously acquired from the Calgary Flames ) for a 4th round draft pick on October 27, 1998

Traded Drew Bannister to the Tampa Bay Lightning for a 2000 5th round pick on December 10, 1998

Traded Josef Marha to the Chicago Blackhawks for future considerations (became a 1999 4th round draft) on January 28, 1999

Draft picks

Anaheim's draft picks at the 1998 NHL Entry Draft held at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York.

Round # Player Nationality College/Junior/Club Team (League)
15Vitaly Vishnevskiy RussiaTorpedo Yaroslavl (Russia)
232Stephen Peat CanadaRed Deer Rebels (WHL)
4112Viktor Wallin SwedenHV71 (Sweden)
6150Trent Hunter CanadaPrince George Cougars (WHL)
7178Jesse Fibiger CanadaUniversity of Minnesota Duluth (WCHA)
8205David Bernier CanadaQuebec Remparts (QMJHL)
9233Pelle Prestberg SwedenFarjestad BK (Sweden)
9245Andreas Andersson SwedenHV71 (Sweden)

Farm teams

Cincinnati Mighty Ducks

See also

Other Anaheim–based teams in 1998–99

*Played Occasional Games in Anaheim

References
  1. https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_1999.html
  2. Dinger 2011, p. 155.
  3. "1998-1999 Conference Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". NHL.
  4. "1998–99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  5. "1998-99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
Bibliography
  • Dinger, Ralph, ed. (2011). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012. Toronto: Dan Diamond & Associates. ISBN 978-1-894801-22-5.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.