I like to picture a make-believe moment after Teemu Selanne was scratched for Game 4 of the Anaheim Ducks’ first-round series against the Dallas Stars. It goes along the lines of the movie Rudy. Players young and old walk into Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau’s office with their jerseys, slapping them on his desk and telling him they want the veteran to take their place in the lineup.
“For Teemu, coach.”
“For Teemu.”
“For T.”
It’s not something that actually happened, but the scratch was significant at the time and could have destroyed the Ducks' locker-room chemistry. So, too, could the goaltending decisions made by Boudreau along the way, flipping between Jonas Hiller and Frederik Andersen, and then going to untested rookie John Gibson against the Los Angeles Kings for Game 4 with his team in danger of falling to within a single game of elimination.
Somehow, though, it’s all worked out for the Ducks. With Selanne in his final year and set to retire at the end of the playoffs, you have to wonder—if you believe in this sor ...
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