Ducks Gameday: The Injury Bug

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The Ducks are having horrible luck with injuries this season, stretching back into the offseason (and in Beauch's case, last year's postseason).

Here's a look at the injuries that have plagued the team so far:

Date	Player	Injury
5/20/2013	Francois Beauchemin	Torn ACL surgery
9/11/2013	Sheldon Souray	Torn right wrist ligament
9/18/2013	Andrew O`Brien	Undisclosed injury
9/19/2013	Luca Sbisa	Sprained ankle
9/21/2013	Emerson Etem	Lower-body injury
9/24/2013	Jakob Silfverberg	Lower-body injury
10/6/2013	Matt Beleskey	Upper-body injury
10/7/2013	Kyle Palmieri	Upper-body injury
10/18/2013	Viktor Fasth	Lower-body injury
10/21/2013	Dustin Penner	Concussion
10/26/2013	Jakob Silfverberg	Broken right hand
10/27/2013	Mathieu Perreault	Sprained left wrist
10/28/2013	Saku Koivu	Concussion
10/30/2013	Teemu Selanne	Oral surgery
11/2/2013	Sami Vatanen	Upper-body injury

We here at BoC have developed software to project potential future injuries for a given team, given what we know about their past injuries and common injuries fed into the software from pop culture. I decided to run it on Anaheim's roster to see what we might be looking at as the season stretches on...

Nick Bonino

Anvil dropped on head

Andrew Cogliano

Slips on banana peel

Ryan Getzlaf

Hammered into road by a roadrunner

Jonas Hiller

Shot in the buttocks by an incompetent hunter

Cam Fowler

Space-related injury

Corey Perry

Ryan Garbutt's next charging headshot

Gameday Prediction

Ducks win 3-2 in OT, game winning goal from Emerson Etem.

Classic Moment

To help commemorate the Ducks' 20th year this season, each gameday I'll be posting a clip of a classic moment from the team's history against that night's opponent. Here is today's...

This video, from the Rangers' perspective, discusses the time when a struggling expansion team in 1994 beat that year's eventual Stanley Cup champions 4-2, and the temper-tantrum Rangers' coach Mike Keenan had on the bench. October 19th, 1994:

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