From growing up in Japan to ice hole swimming in Finland, Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal, Ducks center Mason McTavish and Kings defenseman Jordan Spence had life-changing experiences on their paths …
LOS ANGELES — Tuesday night’s Freeway Faceoff might not have required much travel for the Kings and Ducks, but for three young players involved prominently in the match, there were plenty of miles in the air and lots of ground covered on their paths to the NHL.
“Without Ilves, I don’t know where I would be today,” Dostal told Finnish journalist Julia Schmieder shortly before he left the club to begin his career in North America. For the Ducks, Dostal has been a pleasant surprise in a season mostly filled with unwelcome developments. Fittingly, on Tuesday he opposed another goalie that was recently promoted, the Kings’ Pheonix Copley, who has been the team’s most effective goalie statistically across a small sample of half a dozen starts.Kings defenseman Jordan Spence has had to bounce between the Ontario Reign and the Kings this season, patiently waiting until mid-December for an opportunity to play in the NHL again.
The trilingual blue-liner made his season debut in a victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday, logging nearly 14 minutes with two shots on goal, including a strong scoring chance in overtime. “He did exactly what he needed to do,” McLellan said of Spence’s 2022-23 debut. “He moved pucks, he shot it when he had the opportunity and he defended well. As Trent Yawney would say, he wasn’t at the scene of the crime very often defensively. He played a good game.”Ducks rookie center Mason McTavish, the third overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft, turned in consecutive multipoint games for the first time in his career in wins at Montreal and Edmonton last week.
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