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Weight gets added to Anaheim lineup

ANAHEIM - At this stage of the season, Doug Weight's return to the Ducks' lineup Saturday is no small switch.

Now in his 16th NHL season, Weight said he'd never watched a Stanley Cup playoff game from his team's clubhouse before becoming a healthy scratch in the Ducks' first-round opener against the Dallas Stars on Thursday.

"It was difficult," Weight said. "I was roaming around (the clubhouse). There's nine TVs throughout the room. You work out, you feel fidgety. You're down; certainly the score didn't help."

But head coach Randy Carlyle had plenty of reasons to relegate Weight to the bench. Over his final seven regular-season games, Weight had only an assist to boast on the stat sheet.

There is a sense that Weight, a mid-season acquisition from St. Louis, hasn't fully adapted to the Ducks' dump-and-grind style of offense   Read Full Article...