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3 hours ago, tommer-1 said:
I KNOW he's not coming to ANA, but just as a hypothetical:
Zegras-McTavish-Terry
Killorn-Carlsson-Wee Willie Nylander
Vatrano-Lundestrom-Strome
Jones-Gaucher-Leason
Giddyup!
The question is do we really think Lundy and Jones are still here next season? I'm not really sure. I think Jones stays but Lundy is probably gone unless he comes back and really makes an impact.
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1 hour ago, ike8228 said:
Our leading scorer on the third? LoL, I know I know it’s only two games. Strome Vatrano McTavish line has looked good. Maybe Killorn goes to the third to start, assuming the new 1st line clicks. Henrique TT and Z have been underwhelming so far.
Zegras-Carlsson-Terry
Vatrano-McTavish-Strome
Killorn-Henrique-Silfverberg
Jones-Groulx-Carrick
Leason/Johnston
I think this would be great. Assuming the second line continues to gel then we keep that line. Also, this pushes some really good players to the third line. Don't ice the 4th line as much and give approx equal minutes to the 2nd and 3rd lines to give those high $ players good playing time. We become a three line team but this allows us to ice a better team overall. But I wouldn't give silf a bunch of minutes. Rotate others with him from the 4th line like Carrick or Jones. That team could do some damage.
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9 hours ago, Jasoaks said:
MVPerry leading the Hawks is pts through 4 games...wooo!!!
Bedard who? Lol
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4 hours ago, Jasoaks said:
if i could edit i would change that to 6....6! this guy is on a 246 goal pace!!
Dude is on fire! That new contract is worth every penny so far.
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2 hours ago, saskduckfan said:
SPOILER: He's going to stand on the bench and coach the players.
It's only post. Why you hef to be mad?
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1 hour ago, BombaysTripleDeke said:
I think the greatest feat of the season is going to be this Ross Johnston thread getting to three pages worth of replies.
I love these boards!
Watch him get waived lol
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3 hours ago, Gorbachav55 said:
We haven't played any games yet.
Not real ones sure but we've definitely played games.
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1 hour ago, Glorieous said:
Thank you. Seems like it's not possible on mobile phone and I'll try later on via Desktop.
I am just following Ducks hockey and I am no expert in hockey in general. Therefore, I really like your analysis and knowledge leaguewide. So, I cannot promise to show up soon with something useful.
Click on top right drop down menu. Click on account and ignore users. Enter the name.
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1 hour ago, Gorbachav55 said:
The Eakins effect is strong. It takes months to wear off.
Hasn't helped our guys yet. Eakins probably sends Instagram and Twitter messages on what they need to do on the ice.... secretly of course....🤫😂
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7 hours ago, Aksun said:
Seems like both Kling and Shatt went on to look better with their new teams...what is it in Anaheim that makes them suck? Is it the water or the california state tax?
Klingberg wasn't very good after the trade to Minnesota either.
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44 minutes ago, BombaysTripleDeke said:
there’s the power extension. Could be a steal. Buffalo taking shape not to mention all the winger depth plus Savoie
Sanderson got 8.05 and power got 8.35. Wow. Yeah I don't think Drysdale would have gotten anything closer to that. I guess in three years we'll see if he's able to make that. But he needs to really improve his game.
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1 hour ago, dtsdlaw said:
I saw enough of Kassian in the preseason to realize that Kassian is cooked. There is no reason for him to be on any NHL rosters anymore, even for a league minimum 1-year deal. His NHL career is done. And while I don't like the term on Johnston's contract, if Verbeek insists on having a goon on the roster, I'd rather have Johnston than Kassian every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Teams can also bury up to $1.15M in the minors without having it count against the cap, so if Johnston ends up being completely useless, his $1.1M doesn't hurt our cap situation at all. And after Klunkberg's 1 x $7M contract last season and the dogfight over Zegras's bridge deal AAV this summer, I'm going to stop trying to understand what Verbeek is doing with the Samueli's money. I just hope he gets the books squared away when the team is good again (which they won't be this season).
Sure you could bury the money, it's not about the cap hit affecting our team. It's about the internal budget the team supposedly has. He's obviously going to be affecting that but not our cap hit because we're not going to have cap issues just yet. You're right that Kassian is probably done but he could have been that goon the team needed. Anyway, why am I making a justification for Kassian? Lol I'm slowly going crazy 🤪. Neither Kassian nor Johnston should be on this team! We could have upgraded our bottom 6 for the year, sure we'd spend more on cap but for a single year? I'd rather do that then sign fringe nhlers.
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9 hours ago, turnonthejets87 said:
Fans: THE TEAM IS TOO SOFT!
Verbeek: ok…. (Signs Johnston)
Fans: He’s TOO TOUGH!!!
you buffoons can never be happy.
No he's nothing more than a plug in. We have those in San Diego and as Sask mentioned Kassian could have been signed for the same role for cheaper and a one year deal. But no please continue to try to defend this deal.
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I'm sorry but I just can't defend this pick up. He's got three more years on his contract! We're likely stuck with him for the duration of the year at a minimum. Why pick up fourth liners with three years left on their contracts? He seems like a worse player than Grant and we finally shed his salary that everyone was up in arms about. I'm not liking Verbeek very much. I agree with perry_mvp, we could have brought up guys. No way he's someone who could beat out those guys for spots and he's more expensive AND he's got a three year contract to boot! What in the world is PV doing?!
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1 hour ago, hoxxey said:
Ask the GM- he will say he’s “excited” and the players are “excited” and ownership is “excited” because this is an exciting time of the year and it’s a process…
Sound familiar?
As for the team I think they are going to look about the same- because nothing has really changed - low budget, indifferent ownership and no real interest or attempt to change the course toward success- we fans tend to dwell on the stuff that isn’t working but there’s nothing that shows any reason to expect change (improvement).
31st or 32nd. No first pick in the next draft either… or ever…
Actually something pretty big has changed and that's the coaching staff. Whether or not we see Eakins 2.0 remains to be seen but I'd say that change alone is a pretty big one. Some player turn over and hopefully that's more addition by subtraction. Additional growth from the young guys. There's changes happening but it's not enough to compete with a wild card obviously. I'm not that down on the team but I'm already lowering my expectations for the season.
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1 hour ago, Aksun said:
Annnnnd I was not much off on my lines there, but Leason on the 1st line is already an adventure:
Great. Looks like we're continuing where we left off with Eakins, playing forwards in questionable areas.
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37 minutes ago, FanSince1993 said:
Well, he claimed Lassi Thompson off waivers, a week later he waived him, traded for Andrew Agozzino, waived him, signed Alex Stalock this summer and waived him....
Some fans on this forum (Gorbachav55 and others) believe that Verbeek "has a plan". Does he?
I mean those are whatever signings. Dostal might be ready to be in the NHL so that's a good sign. Thompson brought in a little extra competition to the room. But yeah whatever. I don't think this is his plan though. But I am tired of these nothing dumpster diving tactics that we've apparently inherited from Bob.
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1 hour ago, FanSince1993 said:
Long story short, let give PV a chance. Let's wait for 5-6 years and see what happens.
Maybe he trades all our guys for 7th round picks and we try to start hoping we find gems in the 7th.😂😂
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39 minutes ago, perry_mvp said:
CapFriendly has Luneau and Minty on the NHL roster. Also Groulx is on the roster. Zellweger assigned to SD is kind of a bummer.
Zellweger is a bummer but not totally unexpected. Minty has definitely deserved his stay. What are the odds they get switched for 9 games? I think it's going to happen.
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5 hours ago, perry_mvp said:
You forgot about Troy Terry. It's the last year of Henrique and Silfverberg. Some the guys that were involved in the sucking are gone: Shattenkirk, Steel, Comtois. The biggest reason for the sucking, Dallas Eakins, is gone. Verbeek wants a big return for Gibson. Blame him if no one wants to pay that price. The team is going to out right suck again this year.
Agree 1000%. Eakins in my opinion was the biggest problem and the guy most responsible for our sucking the last few seasons. Again, if the team really liked Eakins and he was let go this should have been another kick in the pants but the team so far hasn't responded this way. How many times are we going to kick them?
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6 hours ago, tommer-1 said:
Those were not any kind of shake up. Those were obvious “move ons”. Those guys were not gonna re-sign here, they were not looked at as pieces needed moving forward in a rebuild.
I’m talking about moving on from guys that you’ve decided in the past to keep, because status quo is no longer good enough. Fowler, Gibson, Henrique are the main 3 guys.
Those moves are not made to blame the guy being moved. That’s not why they are made. They are made to let everyone know “What is going on right now is not cutting it”.
Fowler and Gibson are the two prime candidates. If they are still bad at Thanksgiving, find a deal, even if it is not a “good” deal for you. See if you can get them to a better team, see if you can wake up the room. Kinda like pulling the goalie. May not be his fault, but the team is asleep and you have to do something to wake them up.
Agree somewhat but I still see it from a different perspective. If the guys leaving (as you say they wouldn't sign) didn't already give the rest of the team a kick in the pants moving these others isn't going to do that either.
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3 hours ago, Belarus said:
Groan... Time for my wildly inaccurate yearly guess. Hmm...
3-5-2 for the first 10 games.
82 points. 25th in the NHL.
I think if we got into the 80-85 pts range that would be great! But given the sad state of our preseason games and lack of general good play overall I'm probably going to temper my prediction to 70-75 pts. I'm still hopeful the new coaching staff can whip these guys into shape but I'm not a confident anymore.
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7 minutes ago, tommer-1 said:
Shorten what list? If they are still struggling, those guys will be the only guys involved in yet a 5th straight year of struggling.
It’s none of their “faults”. But especially in the cases of Gibson, Fowler, Henrique, and Silfverberg, those are guys you are counting on to lead you to success, on the ice, in the room. Leadership positions. Again, if they start a 5th straight year scuffling - or outright sucking - with those guys in those positions, make a change or two. Shake things up.
You don’t see that?
We've already been "shaking things up" over the years though. Manson, Lindholm and Rakell are no longer here for example. Those are pretty big pieces on our team. Silfverberg has been hurt a lot the past couple seasons. Lundestrom is currently injured. Carrick is a fourth liner and so is Jones currently. That only leaves Gibson, Fowler and Henrique. I don't think either of the last two have been bad the last couple of years either. Leaving Gibson who admittedly is no longer as good as he once was. But he's taking record amounts of shots and basically trying to stop cross crease passes all day long. The problem isn't on an individual level anymore in my opinion but rather the team is suffering from some kind of losing mentality. I'm also not willing to give PV a pass this year unless half the team goes down with injuries. This is his team and some of his moves are questionable. If we continue to play goalie target practice by new years I don't think it's on the players anymore. Theres only a few left like you said but I'm not sure that makes any difference.
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36 minutes ago, tommer-1 said:
Who are the common denominators to the last 4 years of losing that have been here for the entire 4 years?
Fowler
Henrique
Silfverberg
Jones
Lundestrom
Carrick
Gibson
Shake it up. Not at the trade deadline or in the off-season. Give it a month or two and if things aren’t going in the right direction change it up.
Why did you shorten the list? Guys who we actually let go? We could be losing 5 years from now and Jones is on this team and you'd say he's the problem? Sounds kind of convenient in the point you're trying to make. Because we've already let go of a lot of guys. The problem isn't only in those guys who are left. If we lose a lot of games, like a lot of games, wouldn't that be more on the coach/gm? It's still preseason but looks like we're in for a nasty ride this year again. I personally would consider it a failure on Verbeek if we don't make significant progress this year. Should be enough excuses after 1.5 seasons.
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Verbeek = Worst GM in Ducks History
in Anaheim Ducks
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No. What else is he going to say when the plan is to sit him? "Yeah I'd like to go back to Sweden or go to the ahl."
Of course he's going to agree to play in the NHL even if it's not a full season. Who's going to say no? Doesn't really have much of a choice if you ask me.