April and Nic got into hockey three seasons ago after taking in a Boston Bruins game on a visit to Massachusetts. They returned home to Anaheim and began following the Ducks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went to 14 games this season,\u201d Nic said. \u201cWe really only started going to the games a couple of years ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
April now watches with her good luck charm, a stuffed replica of the Ducks mascot Wild Wing. It paid off Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my first time being into a sport ever,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is the first sport I\u2019ve been super into.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were also longtime Ducks fans in attendance at the watch party.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matthew Soria, 24, has early memories of attending Ducks games at Honda Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember standing up on my seat when I was a little kid cheering on George Parros<\/a>, and I\u2019ve loved the Ducks ever since,\u201d he said. \u201cNow you see the youth movement coming up now and I\u2019m so excited about the future of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n Soria was wearing a vintage Ducks jersey but is also excited with the latest orange look. Now instead of Ryan Getzlaf<\/a>, Corey Perry<\/a> and Teemu Selanne<\/a> jerseys, many fans are wearing the colors of the next generation, led by forwards Cutter Gauthier<\/a>, Leo Carlsson<\/a>, Beckett Sennecke<\/a>, Troy Terry<\/a>,\u00a0McTavish and defensemen Jackson LaCombe<\/a> and Pavel Mintyukov<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a fun ride watching the bright future of the Ducks,\u201d Soria said. \u201cThe brand is getting bigger, the brand is getting more prestigious, so it\u2019s just very exciting stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April and Nic got into hockey three seasons ago after taking in a Boston Bruins game on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-655047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}