The Anaheim Ducks are off to a 1-4-1 start to the season, after their 5-1 loss to the Nashville Predators on Thursday night.

Absolutely nothing is going right, from the goaltending to Kevin Bieksa looking like he’s aged 20 years in four months to Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, Carl Hagelin, Patrick Maroon, Jakob Silfverberg and Shawn Horcoff, whose combined goal totals through six games in the 2015-16 season matches mine.

Defenseman Hampus Lindholm is the Ducks’ leading scorer. He has two points.

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It’s by far the worst start of any team that Bruce Boudreau has coached. (When he was fired, in 2011? He started the season 7-0-0!) The talk of his dismissal from the Ducks has gone from “this is a joke, right?” to lukewarm to “oh dear god GM Bob Murray might actually pull the trigger on this!?”

It’s never good when you start hearing about professional players “feeling sorry about” themselves. It’s especially not good to hear Boudreau say it, because all of this has happened before and will happen again.

Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports:

The Ducks begin a five-game road trip Thursday in Nashville, and, according to a couple of sources, Murray wants to see how things go. I do remember a conversation I had with the GM well after he fired Randy Carlyle. He said he believes a firing is the last resort, because teams should be forced to try and work through their problems. So, his modus operandi is to be as patient as he can.

So with that, we present some nightmare scenarios for the Ducks and Bruce Boudreau that might actually come true, and their odds:

Bruce Boudreau Is Retained, The Ducks Play Out Of This (3-1)

Again, it’s still hard to believe that Bob Murray would be that shortsighted to fire Boudreau early this season because none of the Ducks’ offensive weapons aren’t firing yet, the power-play is 1-for-18 and Anton Khudobin has been more sieve than savior.

Especially the fact that Getzlaf and Perry haven’t hit the board. Getzlaf, in the Ducks’ first eight games, seven of them wins last season? Three goals and nine assists. Perry? Nine goals, three assists.

Important quote from Perry the other day, via Ducks Of A Feather:

“It’s something we really haven’t gone through, at least since I’ve been here. It’s tough.”

Adversity hits at a time there’s unprecedented for these stars and leaders, and they can’t quite figure out how to kick away the snake that’s biting them. Does a coaching change fix this?

Bruce Boudreau Is Fired, Paul MacLean Is Hired (3-1)

When Paul MacLean was hired by the Ducks, it presented two potential harbingers of doom for Boudreau: Changes in his assistant coaching staff -- none of whom he hired anyway -- and the addition of a potential successor with a Jack Adams Award and, now, a familiarity with the roster. They’re not asking the Senators to hire MacLean to hold a clipboard.

Bruce Boudreau Is Retained, But There’s A Trade (5-1)

Mark Spector of Sportsnet noted that Murray had been haunting the press boxes in Edmonton and Calgary this week. And while his summer moves obviously haven’t inspired much confidence given the results, the idea that Murray would further shake up the roster before turfing a good coach deserves some consideration. Especially when other GMs might be in the same boat.

View photos UNIONDALE, NY - OCTOBER 21: Randy Carlyle of the Toronto Maple Leafs looks on from the bench against the New York Islanders at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on October 21, 2014 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images) More

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