triumph_communes

Glad they aren’t reacting like they did against Lucic. Get mean out there or every team is going to pull this *****

Refs trying to calm down this game lol

Get physical boys ?

Nice pass by Jokiharju. Oloffson whiffed it

Way to go boys. Get some ? energy

They’re taking the Ducks for granted right now. Going to lose unless they wake up

What did Joki do?

Dahlin karma lol

Dahlin challenged the play, leaving the guy to get open, but also forcing him offside. Lucked out there some but it was the design of the system.

Victor rocket Oloffson lol

This ducks team reminds me of Hasek Buffalo. It’s all about the goalie and collapsing on every rebound.

Cozens slides in at 2C in two years when Johansson is done. Mittelstadt stays at 3C, maybe spends a year transitioning Cozens. Asplund takes 4C. Barring major injury, we don’t need to go out of our way to fill in centers. Need a RW or two and just draft BPA and actually hit with them for once.

Johansson line is dominating tonight

Who missed that

There ya go Eichel. Ducks suck

Krueger seems to try to match the Eichel line with Scandella+Jokiharju, who the latter has a mean breakout pass, but Scandella has taken the role of facing top opposition and he hasn't disappointed.

Botterill has always referred to Vesey as a 'top-9' player.

he's been married for a while

I don't see a single trade with AZ that makes any sense.

I've only worried about his forechecking, not his finishing on 5v5. The Eichel line as a unit has been outclassed by opposing top lines for most nights, and they can never sustain offense as the cycle breaks down quickly. Eichel has always been a weird player to cycle with though, give it time.

Give him decent wingers for once and his luck might change. He's been dealt with bad cards in college and in pro.

After the game tonight -- Ristolainen and Rodrigues for Kase, Sprong (AHL), and 2020 1st (top 10 protected) Ducks need RD, and can take on cap. Rodrigues isn't gelling under Krueger, but softens the blow for Anaheim. Kase makes our team better, or he's hurt and we lose the gamble that brought his value down to begin with. Sprong is Botterill's choice of prospects to keep ANA under 50 contracts. Protected 1st is the value the market of multiple teams needing a RD lends us to, and Rodrigues is the adder that makes it sit well for ANA. 2.6AAV in, 7.4AAV out, nets 4.8, which brings us back to cap savings territory for the rest of the season.

Hasn't been a game where all three players on this line have gelled. They haven't been much of a liability outside of Vesey dogging it. Give them time. I do think Thompson is a major upgrade for this line. Sheary/Vesey can duke it out on LW. Rodrigues finds his way out on a trade.

I wish the run-of-the-mill stuff got cheaper and more focus was put on personalization/customization. Knowing these companies, they'll just jack up the price on both though.

Both UFA at season's end. Making 1.55/1.6 currently. Their agents likely tell them to wait to UFA and test the market. Can Botterill sign them now? Should Boterrill sign them now? For how much? For how long? And god forbid, if we had to choose, which one is the right choice?! Larsson is 27, the typical player's peak age. Girgensons is 25. What happens with these two is probably what makes/breaks our cap structure for the new few years. Reinhart will probably get around 7. Mittelstadt will get a cheap bridge. Ullmark/Montour need raises. Okposo's contract is still to be dealt with. Asplund can come up to take maybe one of their roles, but other than that we don't really have anything in our system to replace these two in the future. Many teams have gotten into binds by overpaying bottom-6 players too much. But these two make a duo that really stands out in the league. Do we fall for the same trap?