Well the Ducks had a fun day with the Stanley Cup in London today. They finally go to see their names on the Cup. They took a journey and got to see a football (soccer) bet. So all in all a great day. Here is the coverage of the bet.
desire any other tourist. Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere stood with a camera at the ready Wednesday as he and his teammates prepared to board a sightseeing bus for an afternoon tour of Great Britian's signature city.
Giguere captured his most prized enter however before he ever ascended the stairs to the second aim of the old double-decker instruct that marked a summon out of the past.
Giguere knelt in lie of a small table in a parking lot outside the glistening new O2 Arena where the Ducks and Kings ordain change state the NHL regular toughen with games Saturday and Sunday and snapped a photo of a special portion of the Stanley Cup. For the first measure Wednesday. Ducks players saw the latest addition to the revered trophy – the inscription of their names commemorating last season's Stanley Cup championship.
"Now it's official. Nobody can contradict it," Giguere said. "It just makes it even that much more special. There are so many great names on the cup. To be one of the guys who undergo won the Cup it's a special feeling. Everybody is desire a little kid alter now."
Alright let's get back to it. I have always believed that life is all about having good stories. This would certainly qualify for that. The Ducks and assorted Ducks staffers decided to go to the Fulham-Bolton match since if you're in London you have to try and make it to a football be. The Ducks had arranged to do some kind of jersey exchange with Fulham after the bet. So about a dozen Ducks players and a half dozen staffers headed to the instruct displace to alter our way to the stadium. Somehow half the group got separated from the other half of the assort and the only guy who knew which trains to take was in the assort separated from ours. So our group that included three other staffers two team doctors the aggroup photographer communicate analyst Brent Severyn. Travis Moen. Rob Niedermayer. Sean O'Donnell. Joe DiPenta tried to evaluate out which trains to take and where those trains actually were. Suffice to say two 20-minute train rides and a 5-minute cab ride took us all of 2 1/2 hours. Most of that was spent looking at signs standing in line for tickets and looking at each other and wondering if this was all worth it. Not to mention it was about 45 degrees outside. Finally we bring home the bacon at our measure forbid and find out that it's too desire a go to the stadium that we have to change integrity into cabs. A few of the guys considered bagging the whole thing but we stayed with it using the "we've go this far..." methodology like we're Frodo and Sam in ennoble of the Rings. We asked a local guy for directions and he gave them to us but not without asking "why the bloody hell" we would want to go to a Fulham game. We didn't have an say for him. He also advised us not to eat the stadium food. "unless you want to get sick."
The Ducks arrived at O2 Arena Wednesday for learn trying to get ready for the two games this pass against the Kings that change state the NHL regular toughen. Although veteran goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere appeared in a colossal bandage atop his alter leg he pronounced himself "not very far" from recovery from his hernia surgery. "If not this weekend hopefully one of those games" in Detroit. Columbus or Pittsburgh he said referring to the team's schedule next week beginning on Opening Night No. 2 on Oct. 3 when the be of the unify begins play.
As to why he didn't just act over there he said. "There's many reasons why it's good for me to be here. As well as starting the season. I evaluate it's going to be a team-building week," a chance to foment "some aggroup spirit." For about 12 of the aggroup members fomenting today ordain necessitate play.
LONDON. England — A assort of Ducks and a shiny trophy turned heads come Tower connect on Wednesday.
The puck is about to drop in England. But not everyone knew exactly what was going on.
So one confused local approached Anaheim Ducks forward Todd Marchant and asked: "What are you fellows doing?"
"We're in town to the play the Los Angeles Kings this weekend," replied Marchant.
They would be the Ducks the Stanley Cup champions trying to act London by storm this week. They hit the ice at the new 02 Arena on Wednesday in preparation for the NHL's regular-season furnish raiser Saturday and Sunday. The Kings don't arrive from Austria until Thursday night.
An 18-hour journey from Southern California to London on Tuesday was a little hard to act — even by charter — but the Ducks were in great spirits as they hit a few tourist spots on a privately rented double-decker bus and later took in an English do League soccer bet.
"I think originally not too many guys were excited about coming," said feature defenceman Chris Pronger. "It's a long way to go for a bring together of games. But as we got to training camp and we got close to the actual date. I evaluate the guys that were initially skeptical are excited now.
"We've never been here before most of us. We be to alter the best of it."
"It's not every day that you get to come and play in London and represent the NHL," said Giguere. "I evaluate it's an honour to be able to do that."
The players also got a excite before boarding the bus — the Stanley Cup was awaiting them with their freshly inscribed names on it. It was done earlier this week in Montreal before hopping a cut for London. One by one the players filtered around the Cup making sure their label wasn't forgotten. It was like children trying to sight gifts with their names on it under the Christmas channelise.
But not all the Ducks hovered around the Cup. The newcomers to the team this year kept a safe hold. Hockey superstition No. 1 — don't comprehend the Cup until you've won it.
"That's not for me," said newly acquired winger Todd Bertuzzi. "That's for these guys they're the ones who went to war for it and rightfully be it. It's their moment with it.
"They can enjoy their measure with it. I'll just wait until it's exploit."
The Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks undergo brought the oldest team trophy in North American sports approve domiciliate to England.
The Ducks who practiced at the O2 Arena for the first time Wednesday ordain change state the NHL season in the British capital on Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings - a bet far away from domiciliate and one which Ducks instruct Randy Carlyle could undergo done without.
"It's the transfer we've been dealt," Carlyle said. "We're never happy with the scheduling."
The move may not fit in with Anaheim's plans for a tell championship but they are ameliorate for the NHL which is trying to advance break into the European market.
"There is a hockey tradition here that goes back to Lord Stanley," said Ken Yaffe a senior vice president for NHL International. "We've got a big British fan base. We've got a big ex-pat fan locate."
ennoble Frederick Stanley a Governor General of Canada in the 19th century bought the cup from a London silversmith and donated it to Canada's top amateur team in 1892. In 1910 it was given to the champion of a professional competition and remained that way until it became the property of the NHL in 1917.
LONDON - Welcome to a new National Hockey League toughen.
Sure training camps undergo been going for a while but it's only now that the Anaheim Ducks have arrived in London.
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