2024-25 Anaheim Ducks MVP

[Felidae]

Who was their MVP this season?

Let me know if another player deserves to be added

 

[MMC]

Dostal

 

[Johnny Tomala]

Lukáš Dostál

 

[Coffee]

The 24 year old goalie who made Keefe from the Devils say "We didn't have an answer for him tonight" in his post game comments

 

[Gliff]

Couldn’t vote both goalies, went with Lacombe.

 

[Felidae]

Wait a second, I'm kinda surprised Dostal is looking to be the consensus pick.

His stats don't seem remarkable and normally I wouldn't hold that against him considering his team, but Gibson is 8th in sv% and 17th in goals saved above expected. Granted he played 21 less games, but did Dostal even have a 29 game or comparable stretch as good as that?

Also, Lacombe is 9th in goals, 18th in points (3rd on team) and 17th in EVP among dmen leaguewide. He seems to be better relative to his peers than Dostal is

 

[Crow]

I went with McTavish. Would defer to their own fans but he to me he seems like the lifeblood of the team as well as being an outstanding player.

 

[Victorias]

Wait a second, I'm kinda surprised Dostal is looking to be the consensus pick.

His stats don't seem remarkable and normally I wouldn't hold that against him considering his team, but Gibson is 8th in sv% and 17th in goals saved above expected. Granted he played 21 less games, but did Dostal even have a 29 game or comparable stretch as good as that?

Also, Lacombe is 9th in goals, 18th in points (3rd on team) and 17th in EVP among dmen leaguewide. He seems to be better relative to his peers than Dostal is

Yeah, he did - he was top 5 in GSAx for much of the season before a recent decline.

 

[Ghetty Green]

Dostal, AINEC

 

[Regal]

Wait a second, I'm kinda surprised Dostal is looking to be the consensus pick.

His stats don't seem remarkable and normally I wouldn't hold that against him considering his team, but Gibson is 8th in sv% and 17th in goals saved above expected. Granted he played 21 less games, but did Dostal even have a 29 game or comparable stretch as good as that?

Also, Lacombe is 9th in goals, 18th in points (3rd on team) and 17th in EVP among dmen leaguewide. He seems to be better relative to his peers than Dostal is

His stats were basically identical to Gibson until the middle of March: 2.86 and .911 in 42 games.

 

[BKarchitect]

Wait a second, I'm kinda surprised Dostal is looking to be the consensus pick.

His stats don't seem remarkable and normally I wouldn't hold that against him considering his team, but Gibson is 8th in sv% and 17th in goals saved above expected. Granted he played 21 less games, but did Dostal even have a 29 game or comparable stretch as good as that?

Also, Lacombe is 9th in goals, 18th in points (3rd on team) and 17th in EVP among dmen leaguewide. He seems to be better relative to his peers than Dostal is

I still vote for Lacombe though. Dostal is amazing but Lacombe does it every night - he's their best player by a considerable margin IMO.

 

[Coffee]

@WhatTheDuck You didn't even vote?

 

[WhatTheDuck]

@WhatTheDuck You didn't even vote?

Tough one to answer. If I could co vote for both goalies, that would be my pick. Given that they split starts, I'm going with the guy most responsible for our success on a nightly basis, or most worthy of credit for the team's improved record - Jackson LaCombe

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Who was their MVP this season?

Let me know if another player deserves to be added

He doesn't need to be added because he won't get votes, but Zegras has been more instrumental to the team's success than roughly half the names here. He's been performing like a point per game player since returning from injury and the team is notably more dangerous with him in the lineup.

 

[Felidae]

He doesn't need to be added because he won't get votes, but Zegras has been more instrumental to the team's success than roughly half the names here. He's been performing like a point per game player since returning from injury and the team is notably more dangerous with him in the lineup.

I just assumed he was having a down year. Good to see he's starting to return to form

 

[LuGBuG]

Dostal with HM to Lacombe

 

[Arthuros]

Not that LaCombe isn't awesome, but he can have a bad game and we can still win.

If Dostal's not on his game, we're cooked. To me he's the MVP - we go as he goes.

 

[HanSolo]

Wait a second, I'm kinda surprised Dostal is looking to be the consensus pick.

His stats don't seem remarkable and normally I wouldn't hold that against him considering his team, but Gibson is 8th in sv% and 17th in goals saved above expected. Granted he played 21 less games, but did Dostal even have a 29 game or comparable stretch as good as that?

Also, Lacombe is 9th in goals, 18th in points (3rd on team) and 17th in EVP among dmen leaguewide. He seems to be better relative to his peers than Dostal is

Dostal has burned out lately. He and Gibson have to fend off chances with the worst defense in the league in front of them. It's his first year playing a real starter's workload so he's likely exhausted. His run in the first half of the season is the biggest reason the Ducks saw any improvement in the standings this year. Gibson deserves some credit too but the way the NHL defines most valuable player, it has to be Dostal.

 

[HanSolo]

I went with McTavish. Would defer to their own fans but he to me he seems like the lifeblood of the team as well as being an outstanding player.

He's starting to figure it out but he's more of a guy that chips offense in and is one of the more likely guys to create dangerous chances, but I really wouldn't call him the lifenlood of the team. No one has really emerged as that guy yet but you have fair arguments for Lacombe overall, the Carlsson-Gauthier pair lately, Zegras, while still having areas in need of improvement is a guy who seems to make the team as a whole play better when he's in vs when he's out. Mac is shaping up to be a 2c with low end 1C contribution. Which is still great but if I had to rank players based on overall "value" to the team throughout the season I wouldn't have him all that high. It'd probably look something like

Dostal
Gibson
Lacombe
Terry (past this point everyone has had bad stretches and Terry is in one right now)
Carlsson/Gauthier/McTavish
Killorn
Helleson
Vatrano/Strome (had stretches of being decent second liner quality but the past almost two months they've been very f***ing bad)