He missed the Ducks’ recently completed three-game trip to undergo additional testing and said that he will be starting immunotherapy on Monday.
Stothers, who handles the defense and the penalty kill, discussed several members of the defense corps, including the longest-tenured player on the team, Cam Fowler. In terms of games played among the defensemen, there is a sizable dropoff after Fowler and Kevin Shattenkirk . Third-pair defenseman Nathan Beaulieu is next with 457 games played in the NHL.
“The good thing with Cam is he’s willing to make others better,” Stothers said. “Whereas there’s some guys that want a certain partner or a certain experienced partner to make them be better. If you’re a good veteran guy, you should be making the players around you better by your play, your demeanor, the way you prepare for games.
“I think Cam has done that. He’s been left side, right side. All over the map. That’s what you expect from a guy that’s been here for 800 games.” The years of experience helped Fowler navigate what was a rough start to the season, individually and collectively. “I think we would agree he didn’t get off to the start that he himself was hoping for …we were hoping for,” Sothers said. “Now Cam is a guy who is a perfectionist. He demands a lot of himself. He stuck with it and he knew he was going to play through it. Whereas maybe if you had a young guy that had never gone through the ups and downs, maybe it would have affected him longer.”
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