When the Anaheim Ducks play the Los Angeles Kings at Honda Center on Friday (starting at 3:30 PM ET), Mason McTavish and Alex Laferriere should be among the top players to keep an eye on.
Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek said he wanted to balance out the scoring between his top and bottom six forwards, and that has happened in a threshold sense since neither group has been producing.
The Ducks flew east and landed in a rut, dropping both ends of a back-to-back set that matched them with two of the three New York area teams before sending them ahead to a clash with the ...