1998–99_Mighty_Ducks_of_Anaheim_season

1998–99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season

NHL team season

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

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1998–99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Division	3rd Pacific
Conference	6th Western
1998–99 record	35–34–13
Home record	21–14–6
Road record	14–20–7
Goals for	215
Goals against	206
Team information
General manager	Pierre Gauthier
Coach	Craig Hartsburg
Captain	Paul Kariya
Alternate captains	Kevin Haller Teemu Selanne
Arena	Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim
Average attendance	15,804
Minor league affiliate(s)	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks Huntington Blizzard
Team leaders
Goals	Teemu Selanne (47)
Assists	Paul Kariya (62)
Points	Teemu Selanne (107)
Penalty minutes	Stu Grimson (158)
Plus/minus	Jamie Pushor (+20)
Wins	Guy Hebert (31)
Goals against average	Guy Hebert (2.42)
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

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 the previous 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 McInnis, 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 an unbeaten streak like in early December (4-0-2) and a winning streak in 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 playoffs as the Mighty Ducks went 13–3–1 from February 3 until March 10 including a team record seven-game winning streak. Anaheim stayed consistent after their streak, going 4–4–3, but registering a record of 1–5–1 in their last seven games, thus missing out on 5th place facing rather Phoenix than the Red Wings as they finished the season 6th in the west since the team was unable to maintain their amazing run in April. The Blues only lost one of their last nine games, whereas the Ducks only won one game out of their last seven, ironically against the Phoenix Coyotes,

During that seven-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 Mighty 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 very heavily on their first line (Kariya - Rucchin - Selanne) combining for 109 goals. Additional scoring was only provided by Marty McInnis (17 goals), defenceman Fredrik Olausson (16 goals) and Tomas Sandstrom (15 goals), who improved over last season but 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. Rookies Anti Aaalto and Johan Davidson did not make an impact in the scoring department.

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

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Pacific Division
R	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	1	Dallas Stars	82	51	19	12	236	168	114
2	4	Phoenix Coyotes	82	39	31	12	205	197	90
3	6	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	82	35	34	13	215	206	83
4	7	San Jose Sharks	82	31	33	18	196	191	80
5	11	Los Angeles Kings	82	32	45	5	189	222	69

^[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.

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Western Conference^[3]
R		Div	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	p – Dallas Stars	PAC	82	51	19	12	236	168	114
2	y – Colorado Avalanche	NW	82	44	28	10	239	205	98
3	y – Detroit Red Wings	CEN	82	43	32	7	245	202	93
4	Phoenix Coyotes	PAC	82	39	31	12	205	197	90
5	St. Louis Blues	CEN	82	37	32	13	237	209	87
6	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	PAC	82	35	34	13	215	206	83
7	San Jose Sharks	PAC	82	31	33	18	196	191	80
8	Edmonton Oilers	NW	82	33	37	12	230	226	78

9	Calgary Flames	NW	82	30	40	12	211	234	72
10	Chicago Blackhawks	CEN	82	29	41	12	202	248	70
11	Los Angeles Kings	PAC	82	32	45	5	189	222	69
12	Nashville Predators	CEN	82	28	47	7	190	261	63
13	Vancouver Canucks	NW	82	23	47	12	192	258	58

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

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

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 bench which caused a brawl between both teams.

Schedule and results

Regular season

More information Game, Result ...

1998–99 regular season^[4]

October: 3–3–3 (home: 2–0–1; road: 1–3–2)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
1	L	October 10, 1998	0–1	@ Washington Capitals (1998–99)	0–1–0	Recap
2	L	October 11, 1998	1–4	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1998–99)	0–2–0	Recap
3	L	October 13, 1998	0–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1998–99)	0–3–0	Recap
4	W	October 15, 1998	5–3	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)	1–3–0	Recap
5	W	October 21, 1998	3–0	Boston Bruins (1998–99)	2–3–0	Recap
6	T	October 25, 1998	2–2 OT	Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)	2–3–1	Recap
7	W	October 28, 1998	5–3	Tampa Bay Lightning (1998–99)	3–3–1	Recap
8	T	October 30, 1998	3–3 OT	@ Dallas Stars (1998–99)	3–3–2	Recap
9	T	October 31, 1998	2–2 OT	@ St. Louis Blues (1998–99)	3–3–3	Recap

November: 5–7–1 (home: 4–3–1; road: 1–4–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
10	L	November 4, 1998	1–3	St. Louis Blues (1998–99)	3–4–3	Recap
11	T	November 6, 1998	2–2 OT	San Jose Sharks (1998–99)	3–4–4	Recap
12	L	November 8, 1998	2–3	Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)	3–5–4	Recap
13	W	November 11, 1998	5–4 OT	Carolina Hurricanes (1998–99)	4–5–4	Recap
14	L	November 13, 1998	2–5	@ Vancouver Canucks (1998–99)	4–6–4	Recap
15	W	November 14, 1998	1–0	@ Calgary Flames (1998–99)	5–6–4	Recap
16	W	November 16, 1998	3–1	Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)	6–6–4	Recap
17	W	November 18, 1998	3–1	New York Rangers (1998–99)	7–6–4	Recap
18	L	November 20, 1998	2–3 OT	Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)	7–7–4	Recap
19	W	November 22, 1998	4–1	Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)	8–7–4	Recap
20	L	November 25, 1998	2–5	@ Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)	8–8–4	Recap
21	L	November 27, 1998	1–3	@ Nashville Predators (1998–99)	8–9–4	Recap
22	L	November 29, 1998	1–3	@ Carolina Hurricanes (1998–99)	8–10–4	Recap

December: 5–3–4 (home: 3–1–2; road: 2–2–2)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
23	T	December 1, 1998	4–4 OT	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1998–99)	8–10–5	Recap
24	L	December 3, 1998	1–4	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)	8–11–5	Recap
25	W	December 6, 1998	2–1	@ San Jose Sharks (1998–99)	9–11–5	Recap
26	T	December 9, 1998	4–4 OT	Vancouver Canucks (1998–99)	9–11–6	Recap
27	W	December 11, 1998	1–0	Washington Capitals (1998–99)	10–11–6	Recap
28	W	December 13, 1998	3–0	Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)	11–11–6	Recap
29	W	December 16, 1998	6–1	Nashville Predators (1998–99)	12–11–6	Recap
30	T	December 18, 1998	2–2 OT	New York Islanders (1998–99)	12–11–7	Recap
31	L	December 21, 1998	2–4	Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)	12–12–7	Recap
32	W	December 22, 1998	1–0	@ Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)	13–12–7	Recap
33	T	December 28, 1998	2–2 OT	@ Ottawa Senators (1998–99)	13–12–8	Recap
34	L	December 30, 1998	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1998–99)	13–13–8	Recap

January: 4–9–1 (home: 3–5–0; road: 1–4–1)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
35	W	January 1, 1999	7–2	@ Buffalo Sabres (1998–99)	14–13–8	Recap
36	L	January 2, 1999	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1998–99)	14–14–8	Recap
37	L	January 4, 1999	1–2	@ Nashville Predators (1998–99)	14–15–8	Recap
38	L	January 6, 1999	2–3 OT	Buffalo Sabres (1998–99)	14–16–8	Recap
39	W	January 8, 1999	4–1	Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)	15–16–8	Recap
40	W	January 10, 1999	6–4	Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)	16–16–8	Recap
41	L	January 13, 1999	1–2	Calgary Flames (1998–99)	16–17–8	Recap
42	L	January 15, 1999	1–3	Dallas Stars (1998–99)	16–18–8	Recap
43	W	January 18, 1999	5–3	Pittsburgh Penguins (1998–99)	17–18–8	Recap
44	L	January 20, 1999	3–4	New Jersey Devils (1998–99)	17–19–8	Recap
45	T	January 21, 1999	3–3 OT	@ Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)	17–19–9	Recap
46	L	January 27, 1999	3–4	Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)	17–20–9	Recap
47	L	January 28, 1999	2–6	@ Colorado Avalanche (1998–99)	17–21–9	Recap
48	L	January 30, 1999	0–1	@ Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)	17–22–9	Recap

February: 10–3–0 (home: 3–2–0; road: 7–1–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
49	W	February 3, 1999	3–0	Chicago Blackhawks (1998–99)	18–22–9	Recap
50	W	February 5, 1999	5–3	@ Tampa Bay Lightning (1998–99)	19–22–9	Recap
51	W	February 6, 1999	4–3	@ St. Louis Blues (1998–99)	20–22–9	Recap
52	W	February 10, 1999	5–4	Philadelphia Flyers (1998–99)	21–22–9	Recap
53	L	February 12, 1999	2–3	Dallas Stars (1998–99)	21–23–9	Recap
54	W	February 14, 1999	5–1	@ Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)	22–23–9	Recap
55	W	February 15, 1999	3–1	@ Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)	23–23–9	Recap
56	L	February 17, 1999	2–6	Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)	23–24–9	Recap
57	L	February 19, 1999	3–6	@ Calgary Flames (1998–99)	23–25–9	Recap
58	W	February 20, 1999	5–1	@ Vancouver Canucks (1998–99)	24–25–9	Recap
59	W	February 24, 1999	2–1	@ Edmonton Oilers (1998–99)	25–25–9	Recap
60	W	February 26, 1999	3–1	San Jose Sharks (1998–99)	26–25–9	Recap
61	W	February 27, 1999	4–1	@ San Jose Sharks (1998–99)	27–25–9	Recap

March: 6–4–2 (home: 5–1–2; road: 1–3–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
62	W	March 3, 1999	2–1	Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)	28–25–9	Recap
63	W	March 5, 1999	3–2	Nashville Predators (1998–99)	29–25–9	Recap
64	W	March 7, 1999	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)	30–25–9	Recap
65	T	March 10, 1999	4–4 OT	Vancouver Canucks (1998–99)	30–25–10	Recap
66	L	March 12, 1999	0–4	@ Dallas Stars (1998–99)	30–26–10	Recap
67	L	March 13, 1999	0–1	@ Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)	30–27–10	Recap
68	T	March 17, 1999	2–2 OT	Ottawa Senators (1998–99)	30–27–11	Recap
69	W	March 18, 1999	4–2	@ Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)	31–27–11	Recap
70	L	March 21, 1999	2–5	Florida Panthers (1998–99)	31–28–11	Recap
71	W	March 26, 1999	5–1	Dallas Stars (1998–99)	32–28–11	Recap
72	W	March 28, 1999	5–1	Calgary Flames (1998–99)	33–28–11	Recap
73	L	March 31, 1999	1–7	@ New Jersey Devils (1998–99)	33–29–11	Recap

April: 2–5–2 (home: 1–2–0; road: 1–3–2)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
74	W	April 2, 1999	4–1	@ New York Rangers (1998–99)	34–29–11	Recap
75	T	April 3, 1999	2–2 OT	@ New York Islanders (1998–99)	34–29–12	Recap
76	L	April 5, 1999	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1998–99)	34–30–12	Recap
77	L	April 7, 1999	1–5	@ Dallas Stars (1998–99)	34–31–12	Recap
78	L	April 9, 1999	1–4	San Jose Sharks (1998–99)	34–32–12	Recap
79	W	April 11, 1999	3–0	Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99)	35–32–12	Recap
80	L	April 14, 1999	1–3	St. Louis Blues (1998–99)	35–33–12	Recap
81	L	April 15, 1999	3–4 OT	@ Los Angeles Kings (1998–99)	35–34–12	Recap
82	T	April 17, 1999	3–3 OT	@ San Jose Sharks (1998–99)	35–34–13	Recap

Legend:

Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point)

Playoffs

More information 1999 Stanley Cup playoffs, Game ...

1999 Stanley Cup playoffs^[4]

Western Conference Quarterfinals: vs. (3) Detroit Red Wings — Red Wings win 4–0

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Series	Recap
1	L	April 21, 1999	3–5	@ Detroit Red Wings	Red Wings lead 1–0	Recap
2	L	April 23, 1999	1–5	@ Detroit Red Wings	Red Wings lead 2–0	Recap
3	L	April 25, 1999	2–4	Detroit Red Wings	Red Wings lead 3–0	Recap
4	L	April 27, 1999	0–3	Detroit Red Wings	Red Wings win 4–0	Recap

Legend:

Win Loss

Player statistics

Scoring

Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
† = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Mighty Ducks only.
‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Mighty Ducks only.

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			Regular season						Playoffs
No.	Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
8	Teemu Selanne	RW	75	47	60	107	18	30	4	2	2	4	−1	2
9	Paul Kariya	LW	82	39	62	101	17	40	3	1	3	4	0	0
20	Steve Rucchin	C	69	23	39	62	11	22	4	0	3	3	0	0
2	Fredrik Olausson	D	74	16	40	56	17	30	4	0	2	2	−4	4
16	Marty McInnis†	C	75	18	34	52	−14	36	4	2	0	2	−1	2
17	Tomas Sandstrom	RW	58	15	17	32	−5	42	4	0	0	0	−2	4
39	Travis Green	C	79	13	17	30	−7	81	4	0	1	1	−4	4
11	Matt Cullen	C	75	11	14	25	−12	47	4	0	0	0	−2	0
24	Ruslan Salei	D	74	2	14	16	1	65	3	0	0	0	−4	4
18	Ted Drury	C	75	5	6	11	2	83	4	0	0	0	−6	0
33	Jim McKenzie	LW	73	5	4	9	−18	99	4	0	0	0	−2	4
19	Jeff Nielsen	RW	80	5	4	9	−12	34	4	0	0	0	−6	2
14	Antti Aalto	C	73	3	5	8	−12	24	4	0	0	0	0	2
22	Johan Davidsson	C	64	3	5	8	−9	14	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	Jason Marshall	D	72	1	7	8	−5	142	4	1	0	1	−1	10
5	Kevin Haller	D	82	1	6	7	−1	122	4	0	0	0	−1	2
27	Pascal Trepanier	D	45	2	4	6	0	48	—	—	—	—	—	—
25	Mike Crowley	D	20	2	3	5	−10	16	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Pavel Trnka	D	63	0	4	4	−6	60	4	0	1	1	−3	2
32	Stu Grimson	LW	73	3	0	3	0	158	3	0	0	0	0	30
4	Jamie Pushor	D	70	1	2	3	−20	112	4	0	0	0	−3	6
21	Scott Ferguson	D	2	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
31	Guy Hebert	G	69	0	1	1		0	4	0	0	0		0
10	Josef Marha‡	C	10	0	1	1	−4	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
12	Mike Leclerc	LW	7	0	0	0	−2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0
30	Dominic Roussel	G	18	0	0	0		0	—	—	—	—	—	—
34	Dan Trebil	D	6	0	0	0	−2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
35	Tom Askey	G	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	0		0

Goaltending

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		Regular season										Playoffs
No.	Player	GP	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI
31	Guy Hebert	69	31	29	9	2114	165	2.46	.922	6	4083	4	0	3	124	15	4.33	.879	0	208
30	Dominic Roussel	18	4	5	4	478	37	2.51	.923	1	884	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
35	Tom Askey	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0	1	11	2	3.99	.818	0	30

Awards and records

Awards

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Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref
League (annual)	Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy	Teemu Selanne	^[5]
	NHL First All-Star Team	Paul Kariya (Left Wing)	^[6]
	NHL Second All-Star Team	Teemu Selanne (Right Wing)	^[6]
League (in-season)	NHL All-Star Game selection	Paul Kariya^{[lower-alpha 1]}	^[8]
League (in-season)	NHL All-Star Game selection	Teemu Selanne^{[lower-alpha 1]}	^[8]

Transactions

Acquired Marty McInnis 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.^[9]

More information Round, # ...

Round	#	Player	Nationality	College/Junior/Club team (League)
1	5	Vitaly Vishnevskiy	Russia	Torpedo Yaroslavl (Russia)
2	32	Stephen Peat	Canada	Red Deer Rebels (WHL)
4	112	Viktor Wallin	Sweden	HV71 (Sweden)
6	150	Trent Hunter	Canada	Prince George Cougars (WHL)
7	178	Jesse Fibiger	Canada	University of Minnesota Duluth (WCHA)
8	205	David Bernier	Canada	Quebec Remparts (QMJHL)
9	233	Pelle Prestberg	Sweden	Farjestad BK (Sweden)
9	245	Andreas Andersson	Sweden	HV71 (Sweden)

Farm teams

Cincinnati Mighty Ducks

Notes

Kariya and Selanne were voted to the starting lineup.^[7]

References

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"1998-99 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Roster, Stats, Injuries, Scores, Results, Shootouts". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
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Off-season

Regular season

Final standings

Playoffs

Schedule and results

Regular season

Playoffs

Player statistics

Scoring

Goaltending

Awards and records

Awards

Transactions

Draft picks

Farm teams

See also

Notes

References

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