The Ducks' guest made his way around the locker room, shaking hands and posing for pictures and pretty much doing exactly what every other such visitor does on every other such visit. Except for one thing. Nery Romero talked differently. No one in this team's history, in fact, talked quite like he did, and this is a franchise with Finns, Russians and those burdened with the most cursed of accents - yes, New Englanders. "When I heard him speak, 'Wow,'" rookie forward Ryan Shannon said. "I knew he had come from a long ways away."