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The trade for me at least, doesn't make any sense for Anaheim. It doesn't make any sense for Toronto either. I think if this does happen then Drysdale and Verbeek are a universe apart on a deal. Losing Vatrano loses scoring depth with the team that had the fewest goals last year. Seems to me that the Leafs would do better to just keep Brodie if they want to have a good playoff run. Also, the Leafs already have a ton of forwards. Vatrano would fit in where?

I hardly think that qualifies as him not liking it out here. Most players go back home during the summer. As far as the barber goes, there's a difference between a barber and a salon. SoCal has salons. Maybe he wants his cousin Vinny in NYC to cut his hair.

Wasn't that the covid season where he couldn't play in college? If so, weren't his three options Europe or the AHL or NHL?

I think he likes the area. Let's be honest, there is no media pressure here. This isn't Toronto. I think he wants to be here. Does the team want him here is the question.

Anaheim is a black hole for marketing though. Zegras is doing Olive commercials. Olive.... Not even Olive Garden.

Bob Murray drafted Zegras. Bob Murray had a plan with Zegras. Bob Murray is no longer the GM. Verbeek just drafted Carlsson. So now what? Verbeek has said that Zegras is a candidate for being moved to wing which makes him less valuable as centers make more than wings. So the Verbeek rationale is why pay Zegras more than Terry if they are both wings? Now to the bolded. Zegras's two not so great seasons were better than Jack Eichel's first two seasons. Eichel parlayed his not two great seasons into an $80M contract. So where do we go with Zegras? I don't know. He's on the wrong team. His future replacement was just drafted. It doesn't look to me that his best possible future earnings will be with Anaheim.

Look at the situation though. He was coming back from an injury. The team offers him $64M. He doesn't know if he will be injured again and have no financial security if he can't play anymore. Hindsight is 20/20. Earning potential doesn't mean much if you're unable to play. Remember that Hughes isn't exactly King Kong, he's not a big guy. The silver lining is that Hughes will still be in his 20's when the contract expires. We don't actually know where the cap will move by then. Also, his 99 point season might be the best of his career and he could settle down to be a 70-80 point player.

Hughes signed his contract during the 21-22 season. Prior to that, he had 52 points total in his first two seasons. The season he did sign his new contract, he went on to have 56 points. So I really don't see how Hughes was hosed by signing an 8 year $64M contract. I don't think anyone was predicting him to have 99 point season in 22-23. That's the only thing that makes it appear to be an underpayment. Maybe Zegras would prefer to have a five or six year contract at $7.75M. Maybe Verbeek is saying no to anything over $7M. We don't really know.

Not what I was hoping for with a new GM. I starting to think he was the cheapest option for Anaheim.

I don't think he wants to bridge him either and I don't think he wants to pay him anything more than Terry. My own speculation is that Verbeek see's them both as 60 point players and $7M is the limit.

Out of that bridge deal, Barzal had an $8.4M QO and arb rights. Right now it seems like it would be less expensive in the long run to sign him to a Hughes contract. We can speculate as to what a Verbeek bridge would be but based on Terry's arb offer but I seriously doubt that team on a budget is going to offer him a 3yr x $7M bridge.

"Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) Players: Teams that a draft a CHL player have two years to sign him to an entry-level contract before forfeiting the player's NHL rights. The affected player can re-enter the NHL Draft and, if unselected, becomes an unrestricted free agent". I highlighted CAN because it doesn't say MUST. I'm not sure if Luneau would have to re-enter the draft. That's the only thing I can think of. Now in Ducks history, there was a guy named Tim Brent that was drafted 37th OA in 2002. I don't know the circumstances but he didn't or wasn't signed to a contract within the 2 year time frame (he was a CHL player). He was drafted again in 2004 by Anaheim 75th OA. CapFriendly doesn't show him signing any type of contract with Anaheim but that was around the time of the NHL lockout so maybe there isn't any record of it. It could be that the quoted rule above was a result of the lockout, I don't know. When it comes to Luneau, maybe he has been offered an ELC and hasn't signed yet but June 1st 2024 is the cutoff date. He turns 20 January 2024. Maybe Verbeek doesn't want to use up a contract spot. Maybe Warren was signed because of medical insurance issues?

Minty, Gaucher and Warren are the only 2022 picks that have signed an ELC. Maybe it's a case of Luneau not being offered an ELC yet.

Well. it's in the same vein as Gibson allegedly saying he would never play another game for the Ducks. Did he go to the press and say that? No. Other Seravalli saying it was true without any evidence. As far as no trade protection for Terry goes, of course it's great for Anaheim and Verbeek. Verbeek has two years to plan something. Will he do something? Who knows but he has the option.

That was probably the compromise with signing him for 7X7. With all the thoughts of Terry wanting to go to Colorado, this could actually work with them at the 24-25 TDL. Also, the Avs have Ross Colton who is a player that Verbeek might have scouted while with Tampa. You know GM's love to go after players they scouted or wished they had on the team.

That was insider speculation. You know, the brother of the janitor thought he heard something. There isn't a direct press quote from Verbeek saying "Thou shalt not make more than Troy Terry". However, consider this: Terry's contract does not have trade protection in the first two seasons so you could speculate that if he does have an amazing season this year and that 7X7 looks like a bargain, he could be gone. He challenged the GM. Didn't accept his lowball offer.

In Toronto (or Canadian teams in general), the top players get endorsements and all other perks to make up for what they lose in taxes. Like top athletes here in the States do. The taxes will hurt the not so good players in Canada since they aren't doing commercials, promoting sporting gear or other things. I'm sure Mathews will make up for what he loses with his Leafs salary by what he makes in other things. Now a guy like Zegras who's playing in a backwater city like Anaheim where Mickey Mouse is the king isn't going to do any better than his Olive commercials. I doubt he's making millions by doing those as opposed to Mathews in Toronto. The tax in Minnesota might be bad but hockey is popular there. A pick up game of hoops in SoCal at the local park is going to garner more interest than a Ducks game.

Because he's no where close with Drysdale and he needs someone to play with Fowler. Harrington who I think was paired with Fowler primarily was playing 18 minutes.

He's at the train station staring at a penny on the ground. He's starting to sweat a little bit too. Doesn't know if he should pick it up or not.

He just traded a 4th to get one year of Lybushkin. If you're talking a 1st or 2nd, he hasn't shown any interest but he's a 2nd year GM. He has no long history of making moves.

Not at all. He would have played 82 games his rookie season but was healthy scratched for no good reason. Is there any reason to believe he would not have played 82 games last season if he were not injured? You're thinking the old GM way of paying a player for their past and not for their future. Killorn wouldn't have got that contract anywhere else but from Verbeek because he's paying him for his past. Byram is getting paid for his future production so the pressure is on him to prove he can do it. If you want to give Drysdale no more than his QO then you're saying we don't believe in you.

So you're kind of projecting Drysdale to become something like Bowen Byram who was also injured last year, only played 42 games. Still hasn't played as many games total as Drysdale. Colorado signed him to $7.7M 2 year bridge deal because they see him as part of the future. If you want to offer nothing more than the QO then you're saying I don't believe in you or you're future with the team. You are forgetting who was the coach the past four seasons. Were any Ducks defenseman good defensively during Eakins reign of terror? Drysdale was also rookie playing close to 20 minutes a game. Wahlstrom averages around 12 minutes a game.

Don't understand why you're comparing a forward to a defenseman but ok. Drysdale did show he could play against NHL'ers his rookie season by playing 81 games. He averaged almost 20 minutes his his rookie season. I don't understand why you don't think he can play against NHL'ers. Being injured 8 games into last season doesn't mean he can't play in the NHL. It means he was injured. However, if you want to give him a pay cut because he was injured then you must think he's not good enough. Just trade him. I'm sure there are 31 other GM's that will take Drysdale and pay him more than QO.

Pius Suter was available. He could have probably started as the 3C. Maybe Josh Bailey is brought in on PTO That's the Lou Lamoriella school. He's the godfather...LOL

Haven't heard a single rumor about Anaheim. Even the Lybushkin deal was totally out of left field.