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Speculation: 2022-23 Roster Thread Part II

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Deuce22 said:
I'm all for being physical, but the reason Ducks are getting dominated is shitty special teams. Are you going to put these face punchers on the PK or PP? I want physical hockey players who are good.
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Do Jones or Regenda get any PK or PP ice time? Honest question, because that’s who the enforcer would bump out of the lineup.
 
Leonardo87 said:
After him bouncing back last season, it has been very disappointing his start. Vatrano and Strome have been good but the tenured Ducks vets, not so much. I mean Silf did have that one really good game, when everyone else was bad or fatigued. Other than that, meh.
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I think Rico's been snake bitten so far. He's not on the scoresheet much, but he's been active on the offensive side by being in front of the net often. Rico could have had a breakaway goal too, but snake bit by the post.

Rico: CF% = 52.0%; OZ start = 60.5%​
Strome: CF% = 45.1%; OZ start = 60.0%​

As for Silf, he's more engaged after sitting out a game.

I'm more concerned about our forward youths not producing. Terry and Zegras have been stymied since they were put on the same line which means the 2nd line centered by Strome needs to produce. Although Silf has been more engaged, I'm more concerned about Lundy's play. Lundy's regressed from his speedy, aggressive defensive play. It's like our youthful forwards are slumping hard.

As for vets not producing, Klingberg looks like a bust. One of our saving graces was that Klingberg would catapult our PP to the top to make up for our lack of physical defense for the PK unit. We're 0 for 17 on the PP since the first game. We're beyond the artic circle in coldness on the PP.

It's difficult to get excited about a rebuild year where the youths are slumping hard, our PP coach has no idea how to design effectiveness, and PK coach Stothers is having a difficult time with this year's PK roster lineups. I hope Eakins has a remedy for our youthful forwards slumping b/c they're the ones with higher potential.

Message to the Ducks' youthful forwards from Eakins ... :help:
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Deuce22 said:
I'm all for being physical, but the reason Ducks are getting dominated is shitty special teams. Are you going to put these face punchers on the PK or PP? I want physical hockey players who are good.
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We don't need *all* face punchers, but Kurtis MacDermid won a cup so maybe having one guy whos garbage at everything but fighting isn't such a bad thing.
 
McDonald19 said:
So if they don’t score or hit at even strength and they don’t really play on the PP or PK, what is it that Jones and Regenda do?

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The line they're on with Grant has shown decent even strength metrics tbh. Positive xGF% and largely respectable relative impacts, despite only 15% offensive zone starts. They don't have the production to show for it, but then, who really does right now?

Does seem weird not to give Jones more of a shot on the PK though, especially over Vatrano who just seems misused there. And it's hard to imagine either of them could make the PP worse.
 
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I suspect that the team may be a little more effective (at least Terry and Zegras) when we can control the matchups at home. May be more fun to watch like the first game was at least.
 
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Firequacker said:
The line they're on with Grant has shown decent even strength metrics tbh. Positive xGF% and largely respectable relative impacts, despite only 15% offensive zone starts. They don't have the production to show for it, but then, who really does right now?

Does seem weird not to give Jones more of a shot on the PK though, especially over Vatrano who just seems misused there. And it's hard to imagine either of them could make the PP worse.
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I think that Vatrano is being used like Cogliano was - speedy, and hope for a breakaway goal
 
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Ducks DVM said:
I suspect that the team may be a little more effective (at least Terry and Zegras) when we can control the matchups at home. May be more fun to watch like the first game was at least.
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I still want to put some of the blame on the schedule. 1 game home then a 5 game east road trip. 2nd home game against Tampa, then off to Vegas. Lol
 
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With all this time between the next couple games... we better come out looking sharp a lot of extra practice time and reps to learn whatever system Eakins is running compared to usual during the actual season.
 
bsu said:
With all this time between the next couple games... we better come out looking sharp a lot of extra practice time and reps to learn whatever system Eakins is running compared to usual during the actual season.
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Between traveling home, resting from the trip, and fan fest yesterday, I don’t know how much “extra” time they’ve actually had.
 
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Ducks DVM said:
Between traveling home, resting from the trip, and fan fest yesterday, I don’t know how much “extra” time they’ve actually had.
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They were definitely on the ice at Great Park on Sunday and I'm assuming early morning Monday and today late morning (due to fan fest). Let's pray they look like they've practiced.
 
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