Seven Degrees of Separation: Andreas Lilja to Dawson's Creek's Joshua Jackson (he's the dude that played Pacey)

So, here's a look at the Anaheim Ducks' beleaguered blue line that has helped to allow a league-worst 13 goals in three games so far this season.

First we have Andreas Lilja who was just signed on Monday as a sure sign of desperation on the Ducks' part. So bad is Lilja that an eight-year old flips him the bird in this arguably classless clip (you can't fault me for being honest). If people showing the middle finger is something you can do without, I implore you to not press the play button. If, on the other hand, you enjoy laughing, give it a go.



Next there's Andy Sutton, who unfortunately broke his finger (thumb) in a fight against the Detroit Red Wings' Ruslan Salei in the Ducks' first game of the season, despite his being unable to fight in general, losing to the Vancouver Canucks' Rick Rypien, who is 7" shorter and 75 pounds lighter.



Then there's Sheldon Brookbank, who has proved himself capable of fighting Rypien, but not so capable of being a legitimate defenseman at the NHL level.



Next on the list: Toni Lydman, who has proved himself capable of being a legitimate NHL defenseman, but has such inefficient goal-scoring abilities that he needs former Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Vesa Toskala to be in nets to stand a realistic shot at getting one in.



Now comes Paul Mara, who has become so inefficient at scoring that he can't even seem to hit a wide-open net.



Admittedly the Ducks do have one power-play threat in Lubomir Visnovsky, but, alas, he is so injury-prone, having played 50, 57, and 58-game seasons in his career, that he gets hurt by throwing a check.



And then there's fellow European Luca Sbisa, who, along with Cam Fowler and Brendan Mikkelson, makes up the Ducks' youth contingent, all members of which look like they could have been stars in Disney's 1992 masterpiece The Mighty Ducks, which starred Joshua Jackson, the dude who played Pacey in Dawson's Creek.

Now, admittedly, that European connection was pretty weak, and if I really tried I could have made it in just two degrees of separation by saying that Lilja plays for the Ducks, which were named after the team from the movie... voila: a successful connection in just two moves, but where would be the fun in that? Bottom line, the Ducks, with Lydman and Sutton hurt, are in trouble, so much so that Jonas Hiller is starting to look a lot like Goldberg.