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If Robertson is still a RFA, 5 yrs , 8.4m per costs a #1, #2, and a #3. we have 3 #2's and 2 #3's.

All very good posts in here. 👍 I can't see MacTavish in the minors at all. He's too good. No problem starting him off on a wing, but I hope is camp is so strong, they just make him 2C to start off with Lundy 3C. Olen 9 games for sure. No reason to rush him.

would rather see: Henrique - Zegras - Terry Vatrano - MacTavish - Strome Silfverberg - Lundestrom - Carrick (shut down line than can score 35-40 goals) Comtois - Grant - Jones Comtois know more for hitting now than goal scoring. Jones creates some energy also. Really like the top two lines for scoring.

also rec'd G Clang. Play his ass off to get a better contract next time in a better market for him. On ANA, he will get every opportunity to show his skills, and then possibly be traded to Cup contender at end.

and G Calle Clang, whom many are very high on

CapFriendly@CapFriendly · 13m D John Klingberg #Ducks #FlyTogether Confirmed Breakdown: 2022-23: $7M all base salary Includes a full no trade clause from now until January 1st, 2023, then turns into a 10 team no trade clause until the end of the season.

we weren't going to sign him to the deal he got in PITT. So we got a 2nd for nothing.

CapFriendly@CapFriendly · 13m D John Klingberg #Ducks #FlyTogether Confirmed Breakdown: 2022-23: $7M all base salary Includes a full no trade clause from now until January 1st, 2023, then turns into a 10 team no trade clause until the end of the season.

Just saw and really like VerBeast

at the deadline, those numbers will be much lower. Would be 50% of what is still owed.

Or maybe he wanted out of Dallas....

The problem is you have a complete lack of not understanding how a championship team is built. Verbeek has spent 16 years learning the craft under two very good GM's. He's really earned the right to be respected from Day 1 probably more than any first time GM hire in the history of the league. You want to make moves ASAP for the sake of making moves. Worst strategy possible. Kings did that for decades in their early years. PV exercised extreme patience because he knows what he's doing with the Klingberg signing today. Could not have gotten him for 1 yr 7mil, when FA opened. He understands to a great degree how to work the market place. This signing is so good on so many levels. 1. If he signs a really good F, and he's says he is looking to do so, then the Ducks have a good shot at being in the playoffs this year. 2. If he doesn't sign that F, probably due to the market place not being a good fit for the Ducks at this time, then maybe he flips Klingberg at deadline for a prospect and a pick. The accumulation of picks he's done and I'm sure will keep doing allows a team to be a consistent playoff team. Allows a team to build. Allows a team to trade for what's needed to make those pushes when the time is right. 3. This trade allows O.Z. another year to develop without being rushed. History has shown D men need time to develop. 4, This takes some pressure off of Drysdale and will allow him to focus more on development than being on #1 pair. We all want the Ducks to be a playoff team asap, but it's more important to do it right. Verbeek has NAILED every move so far. Worst case right now is that the team will be a very fun to watch, .500 team.

flip shatt and Drysdale... Great move. If the Ducks are still 10th from bottom, Klingberg gets flipped for prospect and a pick. If PV signs a solid F, a chance at the playoffs. Also allows O.Z. another year to develop and not be rushed.

agree with all of this. I don't think they are going to be awful this year at all. Maybe .500. McTavish is a lot better than most are giving him credit for.

It's amazing how ignorant this post is. Rakell and Lindholm have received deals that make zero sense for the Ducks longterm. He has signed two players that fit where he wants to take the team. More is needed for sure. He's told us what he's looking for still. He's told us and the players what he expects the players to be. He has like 16 years learning the job under two very good GM's. Post after post, you continue to not see anything past your nose. If they haven't made all the grades and FA signings by the end of the day, we see yet another one of these stupid rants. Maybe he'll get that D-man and the F soon. Even if he does, I think the big push comes next off-season. Terry, Zegras, Drysdale, MacTavis all need another valuable year under them. Look at COL, it takes a few yers for a team to mesh to win it all. He's doing a great job with what was handed him. We had 2 1sts this year 1 1st and 3 2nds next year along with 2 3rds 1 st and 2 2nds the year after that. This is how you build up a team that can win year after year and trade assets when needed to make a push. Very excited for the Ducks future.

who says they don't? I think they hired their guy six months ago myself. That seems pretty competent to me. of course. Bob was with the team for a long time. No reason to further rub his nose into the ground right now. And if you listened to Solomon presser today, he's extremely competent and on the same page with all in the organization.

no it doesn't.

come on. It's a respect thing. Bob was GM for 13 years and with the team before that. I'll put up the house they are not going to change from the interim.

Seems we can change the title of this thread now.

Why are the links (and the header) back to the Ducks home page missing from the board now? I often went from here to the main site before.

I don't think so. I was at the game in Vegas last week. Not the same team, especially with Max P out foe awhile. Not a fan of Lehner being a #1 also.

you missed 40% of his faceoffs? He was 9 of 13 Game 1.

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This is kinda farfetched, but maybe McTavish stays the entire year and Getzlaf mentors him, in likely his last year. I'm glad he made the team. I think Gibson is also #5. We will most likely suck again, so wouldn't mind seeing who we could get at the trade deadline if Dostal looks good again this year. So maybe another high pick cuz we suck, another #1 and a quality prospect or two for Gibby.

from reddit: This is going to sound like sour grapes from a Boston fan but I don't give a Dehydrated Donkey Dung. Ritchie is one of the worst players I've seen in a Bruins sweater in a long time. He routinely made me question what it meant to be a Boston fan, he tested my patience and my ability to root for my boys on a routine basis. I can excuse a lot, that's what sports fandom is, right? It's a place to be biased and petty and stupid in a safe little sandbox of biased petty stupidity. But suck me sideways Thick Dick Nick made it a chore. I can handle guys lacking talent but playing with heart, I can handle a lack of heart in crazy talented guys, I can handle the staggering room temperature milk mediocrity of guys like Lee Stempniak, but Thick Dick Nick is none of those things. He plays the game like someone trying to egg you on into taking a swing at him. He skates with the urgency of an old lady shopping for canned beats, but with half the speed. His hockey IQ is on par with Brett Favre's. I'm assuming Brett Farve has never played hockey, correct me if I'm wrong. Nick constantly skates around like he's surprised he's at an NHL game and then glides back to the bench (probably from the penalty box for a stick infraction) with the dim look of Lenny from Of Mice and Men. Then he sits there like a melting chocolate Santa, with his hair inexplicably sticking up through the vent in his helmet, waiting to be surprised by his next turn to get on the ice. Consider this: He scored 15 goals last year, found some dangerous ice as a PP scorer, and Bruins fans were debating if he would be a good 4th liner or not this year, because our 4th line was that fraking bad, and Ritchie was the only skater who could conceivably make it worse. He scored 15 goals for us and we weren't sure if he would be a good replacement for Chris fraking Wagner, the surly hobbit of the TD garden. Nick Ritchie is a bigger contributor to the decline in cardiovascular health in Boston fans than smoking and obesity. He's the equivalent of a double bacon cheeseburger on your system. He is hockey diarrhea. The guy takes the stupidest retaliatory penalties you've ever seen. He is complete invisible until you need a momentum swing, goes "Got ya boss" and cross checks someone in the neck and bumbles off the ice like Abbott and/or Costello while simultaneously shrugging and bitching to the refs and the guy he blindsided. I'm sure he's not a bad guy IRL, I don't mean for this to be a character assassination. I'm sure he has family and besides Brett they probably don't suck. This isn't about kicking a player on their way out; let the record reflect that every Boston fan has a few memories of cursing his name and that we started kicking him long before he was down. (See also the general well wishes for Kuraly upon his departure.) Nick isn't a goon, he's a bad boyfriend. He'll score a couple of goals one week and you'll think he's turned a corner and then he'll hit on one of your friends and tell you to chill out because he's just being friendly. Don't buy the hype, be fraking aware. I am ecstatic that Ritchie wasn't held onto as a sunk cost, and that Toronto signed him. There you go, that's your analysis.