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Can't say that I'm too surprised about the trade request. This was from that article above: "With little defensive support, Gibson was tagged with the worst statistical season of his career. Amazingly, Gibson’s save percentage was still exactly league average (.899), which is an indication of how much game he has left." I did a quick search on Google and I found the average to be .904 this season. That's still impressive for Gibson to be near average when he was getting imploded with shots.

They got to bite the bullet and start trading their stars for assets. The sooner they start the better their rebuild will be and the sooner they get back into contention. They're just going to become the next red wings or Blackhawks.

I'm not sure if I'd say 'good'. He brings some intangibles to teams and he steps it up in the playoffs. But he's solely a player for a contender at this point. If you're not contending for the Cup there's no real need for him. By the way, I really like Perry so this isn't a knock on his game it's just where he's at in his career. I'm not sure he's even going to get a chance to play next year but I'd probably say he's got a better one than Lucic. This team doesn't have a need for either one. Play the kids already! Or go out and get someone younger in ufa. Perry just doesn't have a place here, and as much as I'd want him to play out his last season's here it's just not going to happen.

This right here. A good GM is able to evaluate what's needed. Bob ended up recycling a player because he was available and he knew him and we never ended up using him or quite frankly needing him. I'm not against the fact we traded wild Bill, it's what we got. Playoff teams trade young prospects/ picks for the now and we were contending for the Cup. It made sense to do some trades but getting Wiz was just really disappointing and one of the areas where Bob had failed. I hope that PV will improve the gm position in this area. Some of his moves are so far are not the greatest but I hope that he's able to work on that and properly evaluate the team personnel and our needs and go out and do his best to aquire the pieces necessary to win.

I went through some of the GDT for the 2015 playoffs and Wiz was mentioned plenty of times as to why he wasn't playing. It was a bad trade at the time, I'm not defending it.

He only played 18 games for us and was still a borderline nhl player. We just have up way way too soon on him. Any player with 18 games of nhl experience, doesn't matter where they were drafted, is way too early to make any kind of assessments as to what kind of player they will become.

We did end up with Anton Khudobin though. And considering Wiz only played a grand total of one final game for the Canes that was a success I'd say. That whole trade ended up being a cap dump of Bourqe basically. And I don't recall anyone being happy we got Wiz back. It was definitely a head scratcher especially considering that Bob wanted Wiz it seemed like and we never ended up playing him. So I wouldn't say that we're looking at the trade based on hindsight.

But they never ended up putting Wiz into the lineup if I recall and injuries weren't the reason. Or am I not remembering it correctly? I'm pretty sure everyone was upset we traded for a guy that we didn't even end up using.

No thank you on Lucic. Let one of the kids take that position instead.

Yeah isn't that what happened to the Sens in 07? They got a lot of time off but were destroyed by the ducks.

Bobby was also a pretty good player though in his own right. Besides, he obviously owns a top 5 spot in top ducks goals with his amazing play against the predators!

But isn't Fantilli supposed to be a lot better than Bobby Ryan ever was? If Fantilli really does reach the potential that he's projected to have then he's a superstar, which Bobby never was.

It's weird that the Coyotes had to give theirs up for tapering and the hawks only get a fine. Even NJ had to forfeit picks for "circumventing the cap". Lame.

Hindsight is 20/20 but this really ended up being a bad trade for us.

Oh wow. So then everyone with a tin foil hat on this year.... I'm sorry we never believed you. But I do wonder if PV also had this in mind.

I'd look into signing him on a good deal of that's the case. But he's probably slowed down considerably so he's not the same guy from when he was here. But he can't be any worse then the defense we assembled last season. On a side not Montour is really becoming a beast of a defenseman for the panthers. Wish we still had him.

Yeah I don't see an issue. He's taking the body, the other player puts himself in a vulnerable spot. If the other guy was a little taller and did this, nothing would come of it. There's no intent to injure here. Smaller players should absolutely be more aware of their surroundings. Guys shouldn't expect to be hit in the head sure but not paying attention to what's directly in front of you is also a big no no.

I feel like Vatanen was sorely missed on this defense. His shot blocking and getting pucks through screens was really good. For a smaller defenseman he was great.

It's a small world! Any news on where the Coyotes are moving?

That's just the short version for now! Wait until we get further along then the waitress who served a guy, who knew a guy, who got fired from McDonald's and on the way out the parking lot got into a minor fender bender with someone who knows a guy that went into a Walmart and overheard that they knew the parking guy at the Honda center that overheard a slight whisper in the wind that the Ducks were trading for Connor McDavid for a 7th round pick.... at least that's what I heard from the garbage man....

My biggest issues would be the length of his contract and he's 30 already. But I wonder, depending on the sweetener, might he be worth it if say we get Goodrow+Lafreniere <-> third round pick? Or is that a low ball? I'm not sure what it would cost to move Goodrow and what Lafreniere is currently worth. But could Goodrow be like a Henrique type player for us or maybe more like a Silfverberg. Perhaps he just had a down year or like you said the way he was utilized. But perhaps taking on that contract might be a bit of a gamble and we'd be stuck with a bad contract.

Saw a rumor about Barkley Goodrow. And the rangers might want to move that contract. Would we want to pick him up? And what would we want in return? He's 30 years old. Signed for 5 more seasons. So I'd be more of a cap dump if we'd do it I think.

Interesting, so I've thought about 5 year periods and the first 5 years the franchise was .444 ppg. So our last 5 years have been worse than when we first came into the league. There's been 29 Total seasons played: Years 1-5 = .444 Years 6-10= .483 Years 11-15= .582 Years 16-20= .598 Years 21-25= .607 Years 26-29 (only a 4 year period)= .419

I think the biggest issue I have with comparing them is Gibson is unfortunately a part of one of the worst periods of ducks hockey history. We've just been on a downward trend for like the last 5-6 years, and on a really bad downward trend at that, culminating with the worst record in ducks history. Over the last 5 years our overall team record is .434 ppg. We're just really really bad. The last time we were close to a .500 team was 2018-19 when we had 80 pts in 82 games. We've never gone through a period as rough as this and Gibson is right in the middle of it. He's going to bounce back with the team getting better and his numbers will improve as well.

I think if they were to relocate it would probably be somewhere in the central division. It just makes the most amount of sense. Salt Lake might fit into that spot but it's likely going to be Houston. They are a big city with potential and they've previously been interested. By the way Portland has a bigger Metro area than Sacramento. I live in the Portland area and the stadium used here can absolutely be used for hockey. The Portland Winterhawks of the WHL played there sometimes before playing next door in a smaller arena full time. I think the market would support it but that would mean the Winterhawks would have to move. Anyway, I don't see that happening. Maybe in some future expansion but not likely. I'd look at teams in the central part of the US and Houston just becomes the city that makes the most amount of sense.