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2023-24 San Diego Gulls/Tulsa Oilers

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McDonald19 said:
Yup. I feel like our 2nd-4th round pick forwards should at least be good AHLers, but that hasn’t been happening, with maybe the exception of Groulx.

Pasta
Lopina
Colangelo (still in NCAA, so we’ll see)
Groulx
McLaughlin
Perbix (still in NCAA, but not much of a prospect).
Morand
Badini
Olsen
Kopacka
Dostie
Nattinen
Gates
Sideroff
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And don't forget the late 1st rounders...Larsson, Tracey, Perreault, Gaucher. And Myatovic is most likely a bottom six guy if he makes it at all.
 
MMC said:
They didn’t exactly struggle to score yesterday
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True. With how SD season seems to be a lost cause I want to see them focus on developing Zellweger and to have the most talented forwards on the ice for him to create offense for. Zellweger to Perreault could eventually start to work.
 
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tomd said:
Admittedly, the lack of a star veteran or two has hurt the Gulls over the past couple of years. That said, the real issue is that this organization has been borderline terrible in drafting talent for most of the past 10 years. It's hard to look at the Gulls forward roster and see any future NHL talent except for 4th liners.

Not sure if it is a scouting philosophy issue or just bad scouts but it needs to change. If it doesn't (and soon), the Ducks will be plugging key holes with expensive UFA's and trades instead of homegrown ELC talent. That approach rarely works.
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Mr Rogers said:
Everyone has praised the Ducks drafting of dmen and star calibre forwards. The criticism is surrounding the drafting of complementary scorers and capable third-line types - and it's an entirely valid criticism because the drafting has been costly.
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tomd said:
Exactly. I thought that would have been obvious based upon the discussions which take place daily here. I guess not though!
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The Athletic is Ranking the best picks from 2007 - 2018. The Ducks rank 3rd overall.

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Ranking the NHL’s best and worst drafting teams since 2007: 16-1

These are the teams ranked from 16 to 1 using our thorough analysis of NHL Draft data.
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A little blurb from the article that ranked the Ducks the 3rd best drafting team between 2007-2018:

Anaheim drafted the most NHL regulars of any team, hitting on 32.5 percent of its picks. That’s excellent work considering they only had two top 10 picks in that span.​

I reiterate, people think it's easy drafting well beyond the top-10. The Ducks drafting of defensemen and netminders exceed the norm. The org just happens to be normal at drafting forwards outside the top-10.

Also, what's with the idea that most of this team needs to be "home grown talent"? When the Ducks won their Cup, were we all "home grown talent"? A majority of the team wasn't home grown. Selanne, Scotty, and Prongs were not "home grown talent". Giguere was not "home grown talent." Andy Mac and Kunitz were undrafted college FA, technically, they were home grown either since they weren't drafted by the Ducks.
 
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Gulls goal was a penalty shot by King. Nesterenko sprung him with a nice chip from the wing at the wolves' blue line and the defenseman hooked him at the last second. He scored on the PS like it was nothing.

Wolves' goal was at the end of a 5 on 3 where they had done an amazing job killing it but just could never get it over the blue line. Second goal was just garbage defense. 2 slow ass wolves somehow got a 2 on 1 but got caught, and then just out battled their back checkers (Hinds, King and Carrick) to pass it back and forth twice for an empty netter.
 
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Gulls tie it up on a long forechecking sequence with Regenda owning the crease. Zellweger got a shot through and it popped up, Regenda backhanded it home. Wolves immediately score again. Gulls tie it again (3-3) on the following shift, Zellweger. Very Zellweger shift - horrible backhand to the middle in his own zone that's intercepted but fumbled by Chicago, Perreault steals it and battles it into the zone, Zellweger takes over and fires, it's blocked, and he fires again through the goalie's legs.

And now the Gulls score a beautiful goal to make it 4-3, unfortunately it's a goal for Chicago. On the back check, Agozzino tips it to an opponent, it's King back defending a 2 on 1, and he intercepts the cross-pass by backhanding it perfectly into his own net. That was the worst own goal I've maybe ever seen.

The Midnight Burrito said:
Gulls tie it up on a long forechecking sequence with Regenda owning the crease. Zellweger got a shot through and it popped up, Regenda backhanded it home. Wolves immediately score again. Gulls tie it again (3-3) on the following shift, Zellweger. Very Zellweger shift - horrible backhand to the middle in his own zone that's intercepted but fumbled by Chicago, Perreault steals it and battles it into the zone, Zellweger takes over and fires, it's blocked, and he fires again through the goalie's legs.

And now the Gulls score a beautiful goal to make it 4-3, unfortunately it's a goal for Chicago. On the back check, Agozzino tips it to an opponent, it's King back defending a 2 on 1, and he intercepts the cross-pass by backhanding it perfectly into his own net. That was the worst own goal I've maybe ever seen.
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On the following shift the Wolves score again on a high tip, hat trick for someone or other. God damn they're bad. 5-3 Chicago.
 
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The Midnight Burrito said:
Gulls tie it up on a long forechecking sequence with Regenda owning the crease. Zellweger got a shot through and it popped up, Regenda backhanded it home. Wolves immediately score again. Gulls tie it again (3-3) on the following shift, Zellweger. Very Zellweger shift - horrible backhand to the middle in his own zone that's intercepted but fumbled by Chicago, Perreault steals it and battles it into the zone, Zellweger takes over and fires, it's blocked, and he fires again through the goalie's legs.

And now the Gulls score a beautiful goal to make it 4-3, unfortunately it's a goal for Chicago. On the back check, Agozzino tips it to an opponent, it's King back defending a 2 on 1, and he intercepts the cross-pass by backhanding it perfectly into his own net. That was the worst own goal I've maybe ever seen.


On the following shift the Wolves score again on a high tip, hat trick for someone or other. God damn they're bad. 5-3 Chicago.
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Thanks for relaying the highlights of the game. Much appreciated, including the King own goal.
 
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Regenda now has 11 goals in 15 games, which is good enough to be tied for 4th in the AHL.

EDIT: His most recent goal was taken away, so he's back to 10.
 
Matter of time before Zell takes the team lead in points. Gonna be interesting to see if they keep him down there if he goes above ppg. Seems to really be coming on of late.
 
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