Ducks adjust to NHL´s effort to crack down on slashing
(WorldNews Sport)

ANAHEIM — In a highly-publicized incident last season, Calgary star Johnny Gaudreau had his wrist broken by Minnesota’s Eric Staal with a well-placed hard slash of his stick. Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, the NHL’s preeminent face, took it up a notch by chopping open the finger of Ottawa’s Marc Methot. As the preseason is showing, the league is responding to those often unpenalized acts by telling players to cut it out. The NHL is cracking down on slashing in the game and the early impact of that is the plethora of penalties being called in the first exhibition games. The Ducks, who played their first of seven contests Tuesday night at San Jose, will be using the...