Anaheim Ducks
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Regular Season Record: 48-20-14, 110 pts
Head-to-Head Record: 3-1
Last Stanley Cup Win: -
Last Stanley Cup Final Appearance: 2003
Last Postseason Appearance: 2006
Players with Stanley Cup Rings: Scott Niedermayer (3).

Team Analysis: Jacques Lemaire has long been known as a defensive specialist behind the bench, and Randy Carlyle welcomed his style of play with open arms throughout the first round. Playing, sound defensive hockey of their own, the Ducks hammered out three straight one-goal victories against the Wild and allowed just two power play goals in 27 chances. As with the early rounds last season, the Ducks got a lot of offence from the blueline. Chris Pronger leads all Ducks skaters in scoring with six points, while Francois Beauchemin and Scott Niedermayer have three points apiece. Up front, the Ducks' shutdown line of Samuel Pahlsson, Travis Moen and Rob Niedermayer haven't only been frustrating opposing forwards, but have made big contributions on offense with three points each. If Teemu Selanne, Corey Perry and Andy McDonald (who combined for three goals and two assists in Round 1) get going, they'll be even tougher to beat in the second round. Netminder Jean Sebastien Giguere (given time off to be with his wife and their son) was out for the final three games of the regular season and the first three games of the playoffs until he returned in the closing minutes of Game 4 and all of Game 5. Ilya Bryzgalov started in his place and held the Wild to a total of four goals in the opening three games before giving up all the goals in the loss at Minnesota. Giguere - who was excellent in Game 5 - should be back in regular duty in Round 2.

Vancouver Canucks
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Regular Season Record: 49-26-7, 105 pts
Head-to-Head Record: 1-3
Last Stanley Cup Win: -
Last Stanley Cup Final Appearance: 1994
Last Postseason Appearance: 2004
Players with Stanley Cup Rings: None.

Team Analysis: There are no ifs, ands or buts about what the Canucks need to survive the second round. This team needs to score goals, goals and more goals. Alain Vigneault's squad was blanked three times in the first round by Dallas, and it never looks good when high profile scorers like Markus Naslund and the Sedins are held off the scoresheet. After a seven-game set with the Stars, Trevor Linden, Mattias Ohlund, Taylor Pyatt, Bryan Smolinski and Henrik Sedin led all Vancouver skaters with two goals apiece - and two of those goals were empty netters. Bad offence also means a bad power play, and the Canucks have the worst among the advancing teams with just two goals. Though the forwards haven't been scoring, they have certainly boasted their share of blocked shots. And if a shot does get through, the saving grace has been Roberto Luongo. The Vezina Trophy hopeful has kept the Canucks in every game and was the big difference from a 2-0 deficit becoming an 8-0 deficit. All he needs is some added run support.

Statistical keys to the series

- Anaheim ranked third in the league on the power play, with a 22.4% success rate. Vancouver ranked 18th at 17.2%.

- Anaheim ranked fifth in the league in penalty killing, with an 85.1% success rate. Vancouver led the league at at 86.9%.

- Samuel Pahlsson (181), Chris Kunitz (159) and Travis Moen (128) are the Ducks' leading hitters.

- Matt Cooke (209), Kevin Bieksa (109) and Mattias Ohlund (106) are the Canucks' leading hitters.

- Andy McDonald is the Ducks' top face-off man -- 55.4%.

- Henrik Sedin is the Canucks' top face-off man -- 52.5%.

- Anaheim's Teemu Selanne led the league with 25 power play goals.

- Anaheim's Teemu Selanne tied for the league lead with 10 game-winning goals.

- Anaheim's Scott Niedermayer ranked second in the league with 27:30 of ice time per game.

- Anaheim's George Parros led the league with 18 major penalties this year.

- Vancouver's Daniel Sedin led the league with four overtime winning goals.

- Teemu Selanne led the Ducks with six points in four games against the Canucks this year.

- Daniel Sedin led the Canucks with three points in four games against the Ducks this year.

- Travis Moen and Sean O'Donnell led the Ducks with a plus-2 in Round One.

- Trevor Linden led the Canucks with a plus-4 in Round One.

- Chris Pronger led the Ducks with 28:28 of ice time per game in Round One.

- Kevin Bieksa led the Canucks with 28:37 of ice time per game in Round One.

- Anaheim's leaders in power play ice time (per game/regular season):
Scott Niedermayer 5:50
Chris Pronger 5:47
Teemu Selanne 4:38
Andy McDonald 4:19
Chris Kunitz 4:02
Ryan Getzlaf 3:22

- Vancouver's leaders in power play ice time (per game/regular season):
Daniel Sedin 4:23
Henrik Sedin 4:23
Mattias Ohlund 4:13
Markus Naslund 3:59
Kevin Bieksa 3:43
Sami Salo 3:37

- Anaheim's leaders in penalty killing ice time (per game/regular season):
Samuel Pahlsson 4:28
Scott Niedermayer 3:58
Francois Beauchemin 3:58
Chris Pronger 3:46
Rob Niedermayer 3:44
Sean O'Donnell 3:39

- Vancouver's leaders in penalty killing ice time (per game/regular season):
Willie Mitchell 4:57
Ryan Kesler 3:42
Kevin Bieksa 3:38
Mattias Ohlund 3:29
Alexandre Burrows 3:17
Sami Salo 3:13