The Ducks will be in their orange jerseys when they take on the Kings in LA tonight in the first of back-to-back battles with their Freeway Faceoff rivals (7:30 p.m. PT on Victory+ and KCOP-13)

There’s LeBron James with the chalk toss. Anthony Davis was known to wear the same socks for every game. Former baseball player Moisés Alou never wore batting gloves, saying he’d pee on his hands to toughen them up and prevent blisters.

The postseason seemed to be a certainty just a few weeks ago. What has gone wrong, and what do the Ducks need to rediscover?

The Ducks today announced the club has recalled right wing Sam Colangelo from the San Diego Gulls, Anaheim’s primary development affiliate in the American Hockey League (AHL). In addition, right wing Troy Terry has been placed on Injured Reserve with an upper-body injury retroactive to Jan. 6.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Danila Yurov scored twice, Quinn Hughes had four assists and the Minnesota Wild beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Friday night. Kirill Kaprizov, Yakov Trenin and Nico Sturm also scored for the Wild, who earned a point for the fifth straight game (3-0-2). Filip Gustavsson stopped 26 shots.

The Anaheim Ducks began the season as one of the darlings of the NHL. Led by a group of young guns and fresh faces, the Ducks were poised to rise and become the

ANAHEIM -- Lukas Dostal made 24 saves, and the Anaheim Ducks ended a nine-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory against the Dallas Stars at Honda Center on Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Kings (19-16-11, 49 points) look to stop a three-game homeice losing skid as they host the Anaheim Ducks (22-21-3, 47 points) in the first game of a home-and-home back-to-back set on Friday night at crypto.