A dozen games into the Joel Quenneville era, the Ducks have already eclipsed much of their recent and regrettable history.

Heading into a road trip that will send them onto Dallas to stare down the Stars and then to Vegas for a joust with the Golden Knights, the Ducks’ current four-game winning streak matches their strongest surge from all of last season.

Their league-topping offense, at 3.92 goals per game, has also put up a touchdown three times already this year. That’s after having scored seven or more goals in a game just twice in the past three seasons under Dallas Eakins and Greg Cronin. Across the six-year span of those coaches’ respective tenures, the Ducks had the lowest-scoring output in the NHL, a result they’ve inverted early.

Oh, and the bottom line? The Ducks are in first

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