ANAHEIM – One more day of participation in all aspects of their practice Sunday only solidified the notion that Ryan Getzlaf and Jakob Silfverberg will return to the Ducks for their home game Monday against Carolina.

Not only were both forwards working in power-play drills but they were back in their usual spots after vacating them due to injury. Getzlaf has missed 19 games due to a facial fracture and Silfverberg has been out the last five because of an upper-body injury.

There will be a trickle-down effect that comes with Getzlaf back as the Ducks’ top-line center and Silfverberg as the second-line right wing that helps comprise their shutdown unit. And that is what Ducks coach Randy Carlyle will deal with as injured bodies are returning to the fold.

“The day is not here yet but it’s very close, we have two players here that are coming back into our lineup,” Carlyle said. “Unless something happens between today and tomorrow, that’s our No. 1 center and a top-six player and a right winger. Now that obviously pushes some others out of your lineup.”

One impact of Getzlaf’s return is that newly acquired Adam Henrique will slide to the second line with center Silfverberg and Andrew Cogliano. But the Ducks will welcome that as Henrique’s arrival and strong play from the outset is giving Carlyle two lines that should instill a lot more fear in the opposition.

More changes will take place among the third and fourth lines and that is where decisions will need to be made. A move was done Sunday when the Ducks put winger Jared Boll on waivers but Boll was already on injured reserve as he comes back from a leg injury.

But a roster spot will need to be opened in order to activate Getzlaf from injured reserve. Kevin Roy could find himself caught in a numbers game as his play has forced the Ducks’ brass to make a tough call.

Despite scoring for the third time in six games and fourth overall since his Nov. 8 promotion, Roy might be headed back to the AHL’s San Diego Gulls unless Carlyle looks elsewhere. Roy had been playing in Silfverberg’s spot but was skating Sunday with the rehabilitating Ryan Kesler and part-timer Dennis Rasmussen.

“That’s exactly one of the situations,” Carlyle said. “Do we – and this is always what factors in – keep a young kid like that to play a lesser role? In a checking role or a fourth-line role? That’s where you have to weigh for the good of your team and your team game with a young player like that.

“Does he support those positions? Or is he strictly a top-six forward?”

Roy isn’t the only one affected. Chris Wagner, who ably filled in at second-line center playing career-high minutes, figures to head back to a fourth-line wing spot. There is also winger Joseph Blandisi, who suffered an upper-body injury in his second game after coming over with Henrique from New Jersey.

Blandisi is improving and could be available Monday as he skated in Nick Ritchie’s third-line spot while Ritchie deals with an upper-body injury incurred Friday against Minnesota.

Unless they did something with Blandisi or even Ritchie, Roy may be locked out of a place among the top-nine forwards and the Ducks theoretically would want the playmaker to get lots of ice time with the Gulls.

While not talking specifically about Roy, Carlyle did allude to some getting valuable experience to “get a true understanding of what it takes to play in the NHL” and that they’ll be better players when they come back. He did note that Roy wasn’t on their radar in July but has leapfrogged several players.

“We haven’t really sat down and to say unequivocally that we’re going to do this and we’re going to do that,” Carlyle said. “Obviously we’re going to have to make some decisions and those are good decisions because whoever has come has given us some optimism in their play or they wouldn’t be here.

“We would have moved them out and exchanged them for other people. So that’s a good sign for the depth of our organization, the strength of our organization.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The Ducks became possible 25 years ago Sunday as the NHL granted new franchises to Anaheim and Miami. While the Ducks have remained in the city at Honda Center throughout, the Panthers have since moved northward from the now-demolished Miami Arena to BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla.

Carlyle, who is in his second tour as coach, didn’t remember that moment and joked that he might have been at a tavern in Hartford on that 1992 day.

“It wouldn’t be a day that I’d remember too vividly,” he said. “I was in Winnipeg. I was on my farewell tour. And I was the only guy that knew it.”

INJURY UPDATE

The Ducks don’t figure to have Ritchie available against the Hurricanes as the winger hasn’t been able to get through their two practices since playing.

Hampus Lindholm was taken off injured reserve but the defenseman is banged up and figures to miss his fourth straight game. Lindholm and the Ducks will have to decide if he is able to play through his unspecified upper-body injury that’s kept him out of practice.