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The ECHL announced today that teams donated more than $3.4 million to charitable and non-profit organizations during the 2008-09 season, including over $1.7 in monetary contributions. The Reign contributed more than $323,740 to that figure.

The financial contributions are in addition to the thousands of appearances by players, coaches, team personnel and mascots at schools, hospitals, libraries and charity functions throughout the year.

The total includes over $450,000 for cancer awareness and prevention, raising the total raised through "Pink" events the last three seasons to more than $1.2 million. The Reign held their "Pink at the Rink" night on February 7.

Your Ducks highlights: A Scott Niedermayer secondary assist and J-S Giguere not getting pulled from his start early despite allowing 4 goals on 11 shots in the first period. Ryan Getzlaf was held scoreless. Yeah, not the best representation you could have asked for.

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If you're planning on going to tonight's Kings-Ducks game at Honda Center at 5 p.m., you might not want to take the 57 Freeway South. It's blocked off completely in both directions in the Diamond Bar area. Your other best option is to take the 15 Freeway south to the 91 West, then catch the 57 South in Anaheim. Also, the 71 Freeway through Chino Hills and Chino is now open.

He's going to the AHL camp in Iowa City for the time being, probably not so much to work out any kinks as to save salary-cap room. The Ducks can finally breathe now, with about $2 million to spare under the $56.7 million cap ceiling. How long will they want to keep Ryan in Iowa City may depend on how well the remaining 16 forwards in camp perform.

This theory has about as much substance to it as a Honda Center hot dog, but the New York Post floats the idea that Brian Burke is interested in signing 39-year-old winger Brendan Shanahan.

Randy Carlyle keeps saying he doesn't like shootouts, but I think his players are starting to disagree.

At an ice rink somewhere in Southern California, Scott Niedermayer, Jeff Friesen and Travis Green are skating together, so says the LA Times. Is this the biggest Ducks news of the year?

Just when you thought you had the Ducks figured out, a 6-5 overtime loss to the Coyotes at home.

Emptying out the notebook from today's practice ...

Last Thursday there was a video tribute on the Honda Center bigscreen to Jacques Plante, the legendary goalkeeper of the 1960's and 70's who pioneered the use of a goalie's mask and was the first to roam out of the crease to play pucks. Taking a page from Plante, Dallas 'keeper Marty Turco more than handed it to the Ducks on Monday night.