1999–2000 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season


The 1999–2000 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season was the team's seventh season.

Off-season

The Ducks made a few changes during the summer, with the focus on improving their scoring depth much like last season.
Ted Donato was acquired from the Ottawa Senators with Antti-Jussi Niemi in exchange for goalie Patrick Lalime on June 18, 1999
The Mighty Ducks acquired Oleg Tverdovsky from the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for Travis Green on June 26, 1999 in order to give the team more scoring from the blue line since Fredrik Olausson was the only point producing defence man last season. Defense man Mike Crowley would not make the roster with the Ducks although scoring 4 goals and 9 points in 28 games over the last two seasons, being sent to the Long Beach Ice Dogs of the IHL.
Rookies Mike Leclerc and Niclas Havelid earned roster spots. Vitaly Vishnevskiy would be their first choice to get a call up from Cincinnati in case of needing a defense man.
On September 27, five days before the season started the Ducks acquired prospect Ladislav Kohn from the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for 2000 8th round Draft pick.

Regular season

The season went down very much like the last one. The Mighty Ducks lost their first two games getting shut out both times but won their next two scoring eight goals. Anaheim made an early deal with the Islanders sending Ted Drury to Long Island in exchange for Tony Hrkac, who won the Stanley Cup with Dallas last season. They played very consistent until December 26, 1999 going 18-13-4-1 winning four games in a row in mid December. What seemed like the winning streak they needed quickly turned on its head becoming their longest winless streak going 0-6-1 and being below the.500 mark for the first time this season. Anaheim stayed below that mark until January 26, 2000 when rumors occurred about trading Selanne to give the Ducks more depth in order to make the Play Offs, which looked questionable at that point.
The Ducks did boost their line up though by acquiring Kip Miller from Pittsburgh on January 29. Ironically, the Ducks had a five-game unbeaten streak which began in Pittsburgh and going 7-3-4 since Kip Miller's acquisition by February 29. In early March Anaheim struggled to keep up with Edmonton and San Jose going 1-3-2-1 and winless the last four games during that stretch until March 15. The Ducks then again made a Play Off push winning the next three games but going 3-4-0-1 in their last eight games thus missing the post season by 4 points. Since the Mighty Ducks never were out of the Play Off picture fans and experts criticized General Manager Pierre Gauthier's decision not to obtain a player with some scoring touch. Late acquisitions Ed Ward and Jorgon Jonsson had no impact, each scoring only one goal though Ward brought some physical play with him.
Anaheim's biggest problem was their Penalty Kill, the Mighty Ducks struggled a lot short-handed during the regular season, as they had the lowest penalty-kill percentage in the NHL at 79.05%. The Defense did a good job ranking seventh in the west but their bad Penalty kill resulted in allowing 21 more goals which cost them the Play Offs. Offensively their defence men scored 43 goals compared to 25 goals last season, contributed by Olausson and Tverdovsky for a combined 30 goals. Both goalies had another very solid season though their SV% was down compared to the previous year. Hebert recorded his second best GAA of his career and fifth straight season with three or more shutouts. Their Offense relied on their first line again combing for 94 goals but saw more secondary scoring from other players as Cullen, Aalto and Nielsen improved their goal and point totals. Marty McInnes missed 20 games, which was a factor their Powerplay was good but nowhere near the dominance of last season ranking number 14 with a percentage of 16,57%.

Final standings

Schedule and results

Playoffs

The Ducks failed to qualify for the playoffs despite recording 83 Points again.

Player statistics

Regular season

;Scoring
PlayerGPGAPtsPIM
7442448624
7933528512
7119385716
8215365130
8013263924
7015193428
8111193026
6210182826
30617234
775162127
698111970
798101814
637111826
572151734
6047118
71551094
5027920
6735861
3133648
3704454
50123116
131230
5503388
111126
3111226
680222
51012
810115
60112
30002
200006
30007

;Goaltending
PlayerMINGPWLTGAGAASASVSV%SO
397668283191662.5118051639.9084
98820653523.16445393.8831
Team:4964823436122182.6322502032.9035

Awards and records

Transactions

Acquired Tony Hrkac and Dean Malkoc from the New York Islanders for Ted Drury on October 29, 1999
Waived Jim McKenzie, claimed off waivers by the Washington Capitals on January 20, 2000
Acquired Kip Miller from the Pittsburg Penguins for a 2000 9th round Draft pick on January 29, 2000
Acquired Jorgen Jonson from the New York Islanders for Johan Davidson on March 11, 2000
Acquired Ed Ward from the Atlanta Thrashers for a 2001 7th round Draft pick on March 14, 2000
Traded Dan Trebil to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a 2000 5th round Draft pick on March 14, 2000
Acquired Corey Hirsch from the Nashville Predators for future considerations on March 14, 2000

Roster

Draft picks

Anaheim's draft picks at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft held at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts.
Round#PlayerNationalityCollege/Junior/Club Team
244Jordan LeopoldUniversity of Minnesota
383Niclas HavelidMalmo IF
4105Alexander ChagodayevCSKA Moscow
5141Maxim RybinSpartak Moscow
6173Jan SandstromAIK IF
8230Petr TenkratPoldi Kladno
9258Brian GornickAir Force Academy

Farm teams

Other Anaheim–based teams in 1999–2000