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ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Walt Disney Co. agreed to sell the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife Susan. Samueli's company operates the Arrowhead Pond, the Mighty Ducks' home arena. The deal, announced Friday by Samueli, is subject to approval by the NHL. However, it won't be on the agenda Tuesday when the board of governors meet in New York, said Bill Daly, the NHL chief legal officer. Despite the ongoing lockout that forced the cancellation of the hockey season, the pending sale is not expected to be different than others in the past. Samueli said that...

One game for gloryPrediction impossible but history favours DevilsBy Al Strachan EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Tonight, the National Hockey League's winter of discontent will be made glorious summer. Glorious summer for one team. Glorious summer for the victor in that single most dramatic setting the league can offer, a sudden-death game for the Stanley Cup. But for the losers, it will be a summer of nagging doubts, of regrets over that one pass, that one shot, that one game that might have made the difference. Later tonight, either the Anaheim Mighty Ducks or the New Jersey Devils will be in ecstasy....

Ducks and the Devils in the Finals