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I understand it's the dead part of the off season. But I don't understand your fascination with them not being signed and 'will they sign?! Will they sign?' They will sign. It's not uncommon for players to not be signed yet. Unless you or someone you know has some kind of inside scoop on why they won't sign then calm down. There's nothing to worry about yet. They're gonna sign because they like to be paid and not lose a year for nothing. Deep breaths. Serenity now!

Good catch. Like Aksun said who cares about fantasy hockey.

Lol but it's concerning that he's not in the top 30 regardless. I honestly think his numbers will go up this year though.

Typically yes. But our former Ducks Getzy and Perry say otherwise. Perry was making more and he's a winger. Zegras will be paid what he's worth though PV will probably argue him becoming a winger lowers his value. If he's doing that with Zegras we have a bigger problem with this team and PV needs to go asap because he's hurting the team. It shouldn't matter that they want to move Zegras to the wing he's a center who's being moved to the wing, how is that his fault?

Isn't the point of the defense to defend first and help on offense second? Keeping the puck out of the net is just as, if not more, important as scoring goals. What good is scoring 5 a game when you give up 6? We couldn't defend to save our life. The defense is better by subtraction.

No one really knows what Cronin is capable of. He might be the next Scotty Bowman or the next Eakins. PV doesn't know either though he's hoping he found a really good coach. That's the thing about coaches who were never NHL head coaches, you don't really know how they're going to work at this level unless you give them an opportunity. I'm hoping we have someone competent and not whatever we had for the last 4 years. Though to be fair Eakins started off well. He was refreshing after the RC years but that didn't last. I'm ok giving a guy a chance to show what he's got, we might end up giving him the big break and find a gem at the same time.

I don't think we're going to be in the bottom 3, maybe 27-28th but I'm thinking more like 25-26th. A new coach should hopefully give us a big boost. Our defense is better and our offense should hopefully also be better as the kids grow. Who knows maybe we end up 20-25 even depending on what kind of systems we'll have and how everyone reacts/meshes in the new system. If we end up playing Eakins type hockey sure bottom 3 here we come!

Interesting. I think Henrique would be higher as long as he's healthy and he gets traded closer to the deadline. He is after all in a contract year so I'm assuming he's going to try to get as good a contract as he can. I also can't see Drysdale scoring more than Fowler, not after coming back from injury. Perhaps McT has a sophomore slump so his goal total might not be that high. Otherwise looks like a pretty accurate assessment to me. But if we're only looking at your list of goals scored the team would be at 227 without the 1-7 guys. Let's say we get 16 total goals from them it would be 243. That would put us 22nd in the league according to last seasons stats, ahead of the Islanders by 1. Basically we're still looking at a roster in the bottom 3rd of the league in terms of scoring production, aka not good. We scored 206 last season so that would be a jump of 37 goals. Pretty disappointing if you ask me. But I don't really see where the goals would come from besides maybe Henrique being better than you're projecting him to be.

I have to admit that I'm not familiar with Lyubushkins game. But I've seen plenty of comments from Toronto fans that said they miss him from the limited amount of games he played for them. Surely he can't be that bad. Sabers fans also are saying they sold low on him. Am I missing something here? He's only signed for one year and likely gets moved at the deadline. He's not going to score a lot but that's not his game. He seems like an upgrade over Benoit, Beaulieu, Shatty, Harrington, etc.

Yep it's a move everyone pretty much saw coming (getting another D man). I think it's not a bad move. I'm wondering though, do we see him with Fowler like we did with Gudbranson? He's a SAH D man so it could work perhaps. Looks like we have him for the year and if everything works out he's traded at the deadline.

I wonder if they will consider retiring his number while the hawks and Perry will be in town. That way his buddy is there for the ceremony and it won't feel like something is missing, well... besides them going up together.

The number 2 pick is great sure but we should have moved on from Eakins. We don't really know what kind on damage that did to the franchise. We might be able to get guys to come here in FA. Or maybe we're no longer on guys no trade lists. Who knows. He was a terrible coach and it was pretty obvious. Instead Verbeek decided to extend his tenure here by another year. We became the laughing stock of the NHL. Had multiple historically bad years (worst PP, worst shots against, etc) and I still don't understand Eakins fascination with having Grant and DeLo shut down opposing teams top lines. I'm just waiting to see what our new coach looks like. I'm willing to overlook all the other moves PV has made as long as the coach is legit.

I'm not sure what this means. Can anyone explain?

Why didn't we try to resign Stolarz? Yeah he's more expensive but he's also much younger. I thought he played well for us. Whatever I guess. Their names kind of sound the same so maybe Verbeek thought no one would notice....😒

Uhhh what?! Lol Some fine journalism, maybe even at its peak. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's even less than my proposal of 1x5. He really really overplayed his hand in FA. Lol But this also begs the question, why couldn't we get him? I'd pick him up with the intention of trading him at the deadline.

If he retires he gets zero. Honestly even if he's cleared to play the blood clot issue is serious enough that he can be LTIRed for the rest of his contract. I don't think the league would have an issue with that. No one wants to see players get seriously injured. It's really unfortunate but there's likely greater than 50% chance he doesn't return. Besides the team isn't going to win the cup why not just call it a career on LTIR.

Zegras isn't the typical hockey player personality. He's not only saying hockey quotes but he's very open about the way he says things. It's refreshing. I also like him working with Kreider. He said he's getting pointers on tipping the puck so here's hoping he becomes the next pavelski.

Ok so Terry likely saw the writing on the wall that he was going to get a split decision and signed a contract that was going to give him stability while also giving him $$. I'm still not a fan of the way PV went about this whole process so does the way Verbeek do things affect the way Zegras signs? Like is Verbeek also low balling Zegras in the hopes that he lowers his ask? I understand the way negotiations are don't but if he's indeed doing this to everyone, wouldn't that rub players the wrong way? Maybe I'm just worrying too much about the way he does things.

I think you're also getting to hung up on the numbers. The point is that Terry now has a contract that's much closer to the final number than PV. In fact he's only 1 mil off meanwhile Verbeek is 2.5 mil off or 2.5 times as much as Terry. That's a pretty big difference if you ask me. Again I understand you're saying it's for a 1 or 2 year arbitration deal but it's just a really bad look to be that far off. I would have preferred not to go this far and not have Verbeek look like some kind of fool.

I understand you're arguing that the numbers are for arbitration but Terry ended up 1 mil over and PV was 2.5 mil under. Either way you look at it PVs offer was pretty bad. And again we shouldn't of even gotten to the point where Terry found out about this complete low ball from Verbeek. I'd say it was somewhat badly managed from Verbeek's side. Contract seems fine to me but again the low ball figure was already out there no matter arbitration or not.

I think Lundy still has some potential. I'm honestly interested in seeing what guys can do under a different coach. I think Jones and Lundy are two guys who could benefit under new coaching. But it gives other guys opportunities and I'm excited to see more of the kids.

Yeah I liked their podcast. Wish they had continued it.

Yep. I was thinking the same thing. He had all season to sign him to a contract and he decided too just let the player play out the season before negotiating. Now months after the season ended for the ducks he still hasn't signed him. What has he been doing this whole time?! We shouldn't even be at this point. Contract should have been signed a long time ago. So should Zegras. We were a terrible team and now we have to suffer through the off season with all this?! PV is playing with fire. At this rate he doesn't last long as GM.

Sure but when players see us low balling guys when their contracts are up, what are they going to think? That might come up in their thinking on whether or not to sign here. Those kinds of things could be the small details on whether or not a player wants to come to us in ufa.