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This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. 12 Owners Issue. Subscribe today!Anaheim DucksOverall: 23 Title track: 28 Ownership: 30 Coaching: 87 Players: 74 Fan relations: 29 Affordability: 31 Stadium experience: 49 Bang for the buck: 10 Change from?last year: -19Heres the recipe for falling from a top-five franchise in these standings to scraping the top 25: Lose a fourth-straight Game 7, fire your head coach and trade away your top goalie. Anaheim is still among the best franchises in sports, but the Ducks laid an egg in the past Stanley Cup playoffs and look like a team in transition.Whats goodAnaheim churns out wins -- during the regular season, anyway -- and its average ticket price is the fourth-lowest in the NHL, which means fans get some good value when they go to games (that No. 10 bang for the buck ranking is third best in hockey). The Pacific Division champions led the league in goals against average and won more games (51) than all but the New York Rangers. Even with their roster changes, the Ducks are mighty. ESPN predicts theyll finish fifth in a tight Pacific Division race this season, which would mean fewer wins and no playoff berth. On the bright side, though, it would make for a much more intriguing final stretch to the regular season.Whats badThe Ducks fired Bruce Boudreau two days after yet another Game 7 playoff loss, and they brought back Randy Carlyle, the teams all-time winningest coach. Carlyle led Anaheim to its first and only Stanley Cup title in 2007, but he was fired in 2011 following a 7-13-4 start to the season. Now -- after being fired by Toronto -- hes a Duck again. Nostalgia aside, the legacy hire isnt necessarily an improvement. Carlyle went 91-78 in four seasons with the Maple Leafs, and fans arent convinced (coaching rank dropped 34 spots this year, all the way to 87th). Four players from Carlyles last Ducks roster remain in Anaheim, which speaks to the teams age: This group is experienced, sure, but talent can only fight time for so long.Whats newAnaheim is still one of the better NHL values, at about $45 per ticket, but the Ducks fell 23 spots in the affordability rankings (still at 31 -- seventh in the NHL) thanks to a league whose prices are reasonable almost across the board. The franchises stadium experience also fell 23 spots, but that has to do with other teams doing more than the Ducks doing less. Anaheims biggest project to improve amenities since its 2012 grand terrace? Adding a state-of-the-art scoreboard for the 2015-16 season. Fancy, but not exactly groundbreaking. That said, the front office has put nearly $100 million into renovations since 2005, an effort that keeps the Ducks in the top 50.Next: St. Louis Blues?| Full rankingsAdidas NMD City Sock Suomi . 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The rookies best save came with 2:17 left in the third period when he denied former Wild forward Matt Cullen from just outside of the crease on the right side.LAS VEGAS -- After two weeks of the Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, only two of the record 1,854 entrants have perfect 10-0 records. Codlock and Scorpio are the aliases used by the undefeated SuperContestants that survived with their five against-the-spread picks after 78 entered Week 2 at 5-0. Actually, since theres a 1-in-32 chance of hitting a five-team parlay (assuming each game is a 50/50 proposition), having two 10-0 records is right on par.Codlock had the relatively easier path with the Titans +6, Patriots -6.5, Browns +6.5, Rams +4.5 and Falcons +5, as most were clear-cut winners, though the Patriots and Browns had to hold on late to cover after having big early leads.Scorpio had the Patriots -6.5, Saints +5, Panthers -13.5, Falcons +5 and Vikings +2.5 and lucked out when the Giants settled for a winning field goal against the Saints instead of punching in a spread-covering touchdown. Scorpio also had the sweat out a roller-coaster of a fourth quarter in the Panthers-49ers game.There are 20 SuperContestants tied for third place with 9-1 records, including one very familiar name. The 4ViewsFromVegas is an entry I share with three partners from my ViewFromVegas.com Forums (full disclosure: my personal entry is @ViewFromVegas, which is tied for 23rd place at 8-2; my partners voted down my losing pick on the Bears in Week 1).All of those on the leaderboard had to navigate a Week 2 slate that was tough for a lot of SuperContestants. The top five consensus picks (the most-selected teams) went 0-5 and the overall consensus was 4-12. The combined record of all 1,854 entrants was 4,189-5,081 (45.2 percent).SuperContestants pay $1,500 to enter and are playing for more than $2.5 million in prizes (after an administrative fee of 8 percent is taken out) and a first-place prize of $895,482. The contest runs all 17 weeks of the NFL season and well follow it weekly here at ESPN Chalk until the champion is crowned.ddddddddddddGolden Nugget leaderboard taking shapeThe Friday Football Showdown at the Golden Nugget is a quarter of the way through its eight-week contest to put the top seven finishers in its eight-player field for the head-to-head format to determine its champion (note: theres a wild-card chase in Weeks 9 and 10 to determine the eighth finalist).RoughRider39, a longtime successful Las Vegas contest player, is the leader after two weeks with 12.5 out of a possible 14 points. He has a record of 12-1-1 with one point per win and half a point for a push. Jenny Butler and @NFL_Totals are tied for second at 12-2 for 12 points, with Will Landers in fourth with 11.5 points and Vegas Sports in fifth with 11.However, everyones eyes are on the seventh spot at 10.5 points, as thats the playoff cutoff. Four players are tied for the sixth and seventh spots with another 20 within two points of the cut, so its still wide-open.The Friday Football Showdown drew a field of 96 players at $2,000 apiece for a prize pool of $192,000. The eight qualifiers will earn $3,000 each and then face off in head-to-head matches between Nov. 19 and Dec. 9 on The Las Vegas Sportsline radio show from 2-3 p.m. PT Fridays on ESPN AM-1100 here in town. Those four winners will each win another $2,000 each. The remaining $160,000 is then split up with $96,000 to the eventual champion (for a total haul of $101,000), $40,000 to the runner-up, $8,000 each to the semifinal losers and $8,000 to the winner of a bonus mini-contest held in NFL Weeks 15-17 for all contestants (even those eliminated earlier). ' ' '