FanSince1993

Zegras removed Ducks logo from his Instragram account. https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/trevor-zegras-takes-a-brutal-shot-at-ducks-amidst-contract-stalemate

Zegras removed Ducks logo from his Instragram account. https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/trevor-zegras-takes-a-brutal-shot-at-ducks-amidst-contract-stalemate

Stick your "leadership" in....Strome, McGinn, Lubushkin and now 34 y/o Kilgorn eat $16.5 mil of cap space, money that could be used to sign Zegras and go after young free agents next summer.

Too little for Zegras and too much for Drysdale, IMO. Oh, Verbeek, Verbeek, look what people say about you on this forum. Is anybody else thinks he is a good manager?

Not sure how do you compare someone like Cale Makar with Drysdale. Makar is physical, despite being undersized; he is also excellent on PP, PK, possesses great vision, point per game defenseman - all merits that I didn't see in Drysdale so far.

Zegras must be signed asap, if we don't want to repeat 1997 scenario with Paul Kariya. Drysdale can sit out as long as he wants, I don't care much about him. Just another undersized, soft, non-physical defenseman with horrible +/- ratio and limited offensive skills.

You know, most people eat soup with the regular spoon, but sometimes you see people eating soup with the tea spoon. I personally never saw Verbeek eating his soup.

Interesting article about Gibson https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/anaheim-ducks/news/ducks-news-writer-lists-long-time-veteran-as-worst-contract-for-anaheim-ml0802

Zegras needs to be signed before training camp to avoid possible destructions in the team. As far as Drysdale....I don't even understand how this guy has guts to hold out. 0 goals +0 assists in 8 games last season before he got injured. To be honest, if Ducks GM finds a proven 20+ goals scoring forward in exchange for Drysdale, I wouldn't mind at all.

Not necessarily agree with you on this one. If you remember, Kariya was a scoring machine, a good penalty killer, and a captain of the Mighty Ducks. Jack Ferreira offered him 5-year contract for $25 mil, which Kariya's agent rejected, because players of Kariya's caliber were making $7-8 mil per season. Low balling Kariya did not play well for the Ducks: not only significant FA stayed away from this team after watching this circus, Kariya left the Ducks as soon as he became FA. Same summer Teemy Selanne decided not to sign with the Ducks as well.

Current situation reminds me of Paul Kariya holdout in 1997. Mighty Ducks did not sign him till Christmas, sighting "we have to be fiscally reasonable". then Kariya signed for $14 mil to complete 1997/1998 season and 1998/1999 season. 3 seasons later Kariya took a huge pay cut to play for Colorado. Verbeek, is that what you want to do? Let me ask you, you spent $5 mil on Strome, $6.25 mil on 34 y/o Killorn, $2.75 on McGinn - these are players who are not going to make this team better, and it's a total of $14 mil of salary cap space. I don't really care about Drysdale that much, but I do care about Zegras, one of the few bright players on this organization. Get him signed, dude!

FOWLer contract will expire in 3 years.

Sanderson is grossly overpaid. Ducks should not follow this pattern.

It's amazing how on this forum within only 2 years Verbeek transformed from franchise savior to someone who is discussed under "Worst GM in Ducks history" topic.

Believe it or not, I always liked Freddy. He was outstanding in 2014/2015 playoffs; thanks to his incredible saves we made it to the conference finals. In 2015-2016 season he had an incredible .947 SV%. I was so mad on BM, when he traded him right after this season to Toronto for late 1st round pick (Sam Steel, yeak).