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I'm mostly surprised by Pastujov...Minty next surprised but I also get it...although interesting Warren didn't get cut. Luneau i understand. But Pastujov and Minty. Just yeah, seems a bit too soon.

Just read the athletic article about Klingberg and I like his positive attitude and also like to see him embracing all the media and social media things like drawing the ducks logo…he seems like he’s in good spirits despite going from thinking he’d be on the Stars forever and have a huge contract to playing for a team likely to be near the bottom of the league, but on a 1-year contract. I’m just concerned he won’t really have the ability to get his game back with Eakins behind the bench. I don’t know. We don’t have a defensive system at all and I don’t have hopes Eakins will suddenly get one this year. it’s a fascinating year when you think about it. There’s no expectation the Ducks are a better team this year. But if Eakins doesn’t have a winning record you can basically guarantee he won’t be back. Eakins needs this team to be above .500 otherwise I don’t know how he’ll ever get another coaching job. It would be the first time in his career…yet the expectation is another bottom of the league year. 🤷‍♂️ anyway, sorry for the steam of consciousness haha it was meant to stay about Klingberg lol

so that's how he does all those tricks... 🧙 i mean, magic does make sense

Nice little tidbits from Patient Verbeek about the young guys and the season etc... a little more insight. It's not so much he's just going to wait till the off-season to have ANY discussions about new contracts for Z, Terry, and Drysdale, but will hold off talks with the players themselves and not get into the nitty gritty negotiations, but will still talk with the agents. I was worried about that at first, but I do like the idea of helping motivate them to want to play for that new contract and avoid the distraction of negotiation. Seems like he wants more speed and skill which is interesting looking at how he drafted. Draft size; trade/sign for speed and skill (and leadership). https://theathletic.com/3621557/2022/09/22/zegras-contract-anaheim-ducks-camp/

yeah also a really good point. Really shows just how Teemu transcended the barriers of fan bases in a way unlike many NHLers.

That's a really good point, I hadn't even thought of that. That does make a lot of sense.

the fact that it's just a slither above McDavid's is amazing haha I think they will be fine...the only next "big guy" they need to sign is Byram who probably won't be asking for too much unless he suddenly explodes. Cap will increase. They probably will lose some of their quality depth, but they are set for a good while.

I was actually a little bit surprised that Getz didn't do an 82-game goodbye tour like Selanne did...but Im still very grateful for him at least announcing it with plenty of time beforehand.

EVERYONE IS RETIRING!!! Chara, Yandle, and Subban all announced retirement today.

I wouldn't read too much into. The results of these games don't have any correlation to how good any of these players will be whenever they end up with the big club (could be even 3 or 4 more seasons for some!). But it would be nice to win one! Sounding like Perrault is making a big step! That's great!

Oh yes. This makes all the sense to me. That's just incredibly unfortunate. That's heartbreaking if this is what is the main issue, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Happy to see that! I hope it goes well!

I just wanted to say that it's absolutely crazy that Milano hasn't even been given a PTO contract or anything yet...like...you're telling me there are 31 teams that aren't interested in this guy AT ALL? Like, not even so much to give him a look? There must be more to this than just his playing. Even Steel was able to sign with a team.

Interesting, Nemec. Personally, I don't think Nemec makes it out of camp as an 18-year old.. Defensemen seem to get delayed a little bit. Not to go completely off this topic but I think the finalists will be McTavish, Beniers, and Eklund. But it really is tough to ignore Powers or Johnson, too. Also if Edvinsson makes it out of camp for Detroit, they may have another calder winner next year! I'll let myself be biased on McTavish for now

Eakins doesn’t care. Everything I’ve seen with Dallas through interviews or quotes, he’s gonna do what he thinks is best regardless of best for PR or anything like that. The guy is stubborn in his ways. I do think we see more Z TOI but I wouldn’t be surprised to see McTavish get the Z rookie treatment. Even so, I believe McTavish will make a run for Calder. It’s a crazy rookie year! Power, Beniers, Slakovfsky, Perfetti, Rossi, Wright, Holtz…I’m sure I’m missing some. But that’s some completion already!

that is just so confusing! haha did they really?? so that SHOULD mean they are doing that this season, right? that makes me a little sad as we should be a better team in 23/24

is it though? I mean, technically? There was a whole season missing in 04/05...I don't know if the roster actually counts there. So this would be the 29th roster. Which is great as the 23/24 season will be our 30th anniversary!

Yes! he truly has been patient. Patient Verbeek. And yeah, but if Z and Terry DO go crazy next year...and we have to pay them as such...well that's a good spot to be in!

Oh that's a good read, thanks! I can't imagine we give TT a similar contract...I remember when Nurse signed that ridiculous contract we were all worried about what that would mean for Lindholm, and (in my opinion) Lindholm wasn't asking for ANYTHING even close to that. And even that was too much for PV. So far what I've seen with GMPV makes me feel confident he won't be overpaying TT.

I agree with this. He deserves the chance. I would have liked more action this off-season but there still is time. I wonder if he wanted to sign Josh Manson. But the fact that Josh re-signed before hitting UFA status Patty never had the chance.

Wasn’t there a rival between Tkachuk and Doughty? I think he goes to New Jersey.

I like the idea. We need defense. I think the players like him and I really like the idea of signing back a player we traded. We basically got a promising prospect and a pick for being slightly worse to get a higher draft pick and a player went out to get championship experience.

Yes, Wright or that Slovakian player —who I forget his name for the moment — will be better than Fiala. Bassed off of Patty’s comments recently, it sounds like Zegras Terry Drysdale and McTavish are off the table. This gives me confidence in him!

Yeah, but no team has a need for 31 year-old 20 goal scorer at that cost for another 3 years. Especially with the cap situation as it was in 2021. I would argue that goalies you want to put more money into. It’s a better use of percentage of cap per position. So it’s difficult to compare. Goalies tend to have an immediate impact on teams and effect the outcome of games much more frequently and individually. And particularly skilled goalies are capable of going further into their 30s I would say and still have that immediate impact. Gibson would have an immediate, positive effect on any team floundering in net right now. And would for another 3 years (arguably more). So it’s a better use of cap space. More valuable to a team. Where as Henrique arguably would not. Could. Maybe. But much higher risk with not as much of a reward.

Trotz is fired. doubt that Eakins gets fired so we can get him, unfortunately. But I can’t imagine Trotz is without a team for much longer.

I think this is because this is Patty’s team now and he probably wouldn’t have signed those players to those contracts. Clearly, based off of the negotiations with Lindholm, he doesn’t want to sign players for much money. There’s an argument to be made he’s lowballing these players.