The injuries will eventually heal but the clock won’t stop ticking on the Ducks and their foundation of veterans.
Cornerstone players Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry and Ryan Kesler have all said the window for winning a Stanley Cup is getting smaller each year, and they will have to wait another summer to go at it again after they were eliminated by the Nashville Predators in the Western Conference finals.
“Chances [come and] go and you never know if you’re going to be back here again,” Kesler said after Game 6.