Terry Yake
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- Aug 5, 2013
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Detroit is the only team I feel was a legitimate, and honestly born rivalry.
they really were the ducks only true rival
i still see the kings and sharks as nothing more than "geographic rivals." but the ducks-wings rivalry really was something remarkable from 03-09. sweeping the defending champ wings in '03 to begin that cinderella run and beating them in 7 games in '07 to advance to the cup finals. teemu's game 5 winner is still the biggest goal in ducks history to me
but i'll admit, i still get mad when i think of daniel effing cleary scoring the winner in game 7 in '09. i really do think that team would have gone to the finals if they had gotten past detroit in round 2. and it sucks that the rivalry had to end on a sour note with that painful series loss in '13 (screw you abdelkader you POS)
i really do hope we meet them in the SCF to rekindle the intensity of the old rivalry