Ducks season review: Young and improved, but not enough

Although they barely squeaked across the 80-point threshold this season, the Ducks were the West’s most-improved team, vaulting themselves from a disappointing 59-point campaign with a franchise-record 50 regulation losses to an 80-point effort with 13 fewer regulation defeats.
It was the second season behind the bench for Greg Cronin and the first as captain for Radko Gudas, who filled the role for the first time since Ryan Getzlaf’s 2022 retirement. He led a group that skewed young