Orange County Register

Some late quick hits from Monday…

Ducks coach Randy Carlyle held a rare late afternoon practice to get his team acclimated to East Coast time.

The idea is to adjust to game-time conditions as Wednesday’s game will start at 4 p.m. PST.

The Ducks will travel most of Tuesday and probably won’t practice.

Carlyle had another reason for giving his team Sunday and Monday morning off:

“Coach went fishing,” Carlyle said.

Carlyle revealed he left after Saturday night’s game for a fishing trip in Bishop and returned Monday morning.

“I had a wonderful day in the mountains,” Carlyle said. “It was beautiful.”

How did it go?

“Very well,” he said.

On a serious note, goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere is set to return to the lineup. Carlyle said he will make a decision when after he sees what happens on Wednesday.

We’ll have more on that on Monday morning.

There were no changes in the line rushes…

Bobby Ryan-Ryan Getzlaf-Corey Perry

Joffrey Lupul-Saku Koivu-Teemu Selanne

Todd Marchant-Petteri Nokelainen-Mike Brown

Evgeny Artyukhin-Ryan Carter-George Parros-Erik Christensen

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