The two have seemingly been joined at the hip since they walked up to the stage at the then-named Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville about a half-hour apart 16 years ago.



Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry have experienced the highs of hoisting a Stanley Cup and winning Olympic gold medals together, as well as celebrating each other’s impressive individual achievements. Along with those have been commiserating over the lows of playoff failures, coaching dismissals and individual struggles.



The two forwards were drafted nine picks apart, broke into the NHL together and became bookend superstars who helped define the Ducks for well over a decade. They were “The Twins” who provided relevance from an often-ignored franchise used to fighting for attention. When you talked about the Ducks in virtually any manner, their names invariably came up in the conversation.



An era of them holding Anaheim’s fortunes on their collective shoulders was...