Ducks asking more of speedy winger Sonny Milano this season

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ANAHEIM — Coach Dallas Eakins had a talk with right wing Sonny Milano not long ago about playing a style the Ducks need from him rather than one that might suit him best. Eakins’ message was simple: Go to the net, get inside the opposing defenders and take your best shots from close range.

“You’re either going to play inside here or you’re going to play outside somewhere else,” Eakins said. “The kid took it to heart. He’s done an excellent job. It’s kind of like when you go on a diet. You’ve got to be all-in for 30 days. So, now we’ve got to get him to 30 games of continuing to play inside.”

Milano’s speed made him a threat on the perimeter, on the rush, as he rose through the ranks of hockey. Listed as standing 6-feet and weighing 194 pounds, Milano wasn’t someone who willingly crashed the net in search of rebounds. He wasn’t the player involved in scrums around the net.

It didn’t mean he couldn’t find seams in the defensive alignment in order to exploit it, however. That’s what Eakins asked him to do this season, to go to the unprotected areas of the ice and see what kind of damage he could do from there. Long-range hockey wasn’t in the cards.

Milano responded with two goals and three assists in seven games going into the Ducks’ game Sunday against the St. Louis Blues at Honda Center. His latest goal, a power-play strike in Friday’s victory over the Arizona Coyotes, was a perfect example of Eakins’ edict.

Milano accepted a cross-crease pass from teammate Adam Henrique and slammed the puck into the back of the net from below the left faceoff circle. No goaltender on the planet could have moved quickly enough from his left to his right to thwart Milano’s close-range shot.

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