As I watched these new-look Anaheim Ducks play with abandon all over the ice on Wednesday night, I found myself thinking about whether this quack-quack squad had any lessons to bestow on your Vancouver Canucks .

This is the team, after all, that until this season had underwhelmed in their development model: a team that truly blew it all up, went full rebuild, focused on the draft, found a pile of young players, accepted that past glory could be no guide to their future.

So much has been written about how a team can be rebuilt, how long it takes, whether you really have to sit back and be patient for four or five years while a whole new generation of stars develops for you, ready to be the next wave.

In the end the Ducks did this — but it was far from a straight line. Guys like Trevor

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