Speculation: 2024-25 Coaching/Management/Ownership

[ZegrassyKnoll]

I guess I’m in the minority, I like the product I see 5 on 5, I think we are playing closer to a playoff caliber team for the first time in almost a decade.

If we fix the special teams we will be a dark horse to make the playoffs.

if we are to replace Cronin, I would like to see a truly creative coach to take advantage of the massive talent we have.

I still don’t like verbeeks asset management. Getting trouba was a good move but I feel he lost more deals than won.

I’d love to get Kariya or Niedermeyer to take over for him. That would be epic.

I don’t really like the 5v5 play because it seems like they’re focusing on defense, which is boring.

But I don’t think it’s a bad idea.

I just think a better coach would be able to improve our defense without completely sacrificing our offense, and would better help our players who appear to be struggling mentally.

 

[ADHB]

I guess I’m in the minority, I like the product I see 5 on 5, I think we are playing closer to a playoff caliber team for the first time in almost a decade.

If we fix the special teams we will be a dark horse to make the playoffs.

if we are to replace Cronin, I would like to see a truly creative coach to take advantage of the massive talent we have.

I still don’t like verbeeks asset management. Getting trouba was a good move but I feel he lost more deals than won.

I’d love to get Kariya or Niedermeyer to take over for him. That would be epic.

I don't. Turning a club over to one of its former icons, especially one without any managing experience, is usually a bad recipe. Maybe it works once in a while, but you can look around the league and see all the teams that have tried this, and most have not been successful.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I’m hoping this is not just a sneak peak with Helleson. Of course he might fall off and needs to go back to the AHL. But if he maintains, even more so if he improves, he needs to stay with the big club. Going down might be worse than sitting at this point.

Gudas is showing his age and has struggled this year. Trouba has played very well in his defensive role.

The major advantage the Ducks have is LaCombe playing either side well.

I hope that Luneau gets another look sometime this year, rather than a using a plug for the 7th. Maybe when Dumoulin gets moved.

The irony will be going from a glut of LHD, two experienced, to 3 without much experience.

John

After witnessing Minty and Zell's defenses getting more exposed this season, I'm inclined to keep Luneau down in the AHL all season to continue to work on playing defense at the pro level. I think most CHL offensive d-men need a longer time to develop their defense. We don't need more offense from the blue line, we need more offense from our forwards. We do need our young defense to know how to play better defense.

One of the reasons we wanted to swap Fowler for Trouba was for a more defensive-minded d-man b/c we are lacking defensive-minded d-men due to a glut of our offensive-minded drafted D-men in Zell, Minty, Luneau, Dionicio, and Tarin Smith. We're fortunate that Helleson has showed up, especially since we traded away Vaak in the whole process of swapping Fowler for Trouba.

I'm opposed to wanting to trade away our youth D-men this year in their development process. We truly don't know what we have yet. All of you wanted LaCombe gone last year, but now tuck tail. Can we just let the kids develop over time and see who rises to the top. If they or most pan out, then they've increased their trade value so that we can actually land a young, top-6 scoring forward.

 

[robbieboy3686]

After witnessing Minty and Zell's defenses getting more exposed this season, I'm inclined to keep Luneau down in the AHL all season to continue to work on playing defense at the pro level. I think most CHL offensive d-men need a longer time to develop their defense. We don't need more offense from the blue line, we need more offense from our forwards. We do need our young defense to know how to play better defense.

One of the reasons we wanted to swap Fowler for Trouba was for a more defensive-minded d-man b/c we are lacking defensive-minded d-men due to a glut of our offensive-minded drafted D-men in Zell, Minty, Luneau, Dionicio, and Tarin Smith. We're fortunate that Helleson has showed up, especially since we traded away Vaak in the whole process of swapping Fowler for Trouba.

I'm opposed to wanting to trade away our youth D-men this year in their development process. We truly don't know what we have yet. All of you wanted LaCombe gone last year, but now tuck tail. Can we just let the kids develop over time and see who rises to the top. If they or most pan out, then they've increased their trade value so that we can actually land a young, top-6 scoring forward.

We have luneau and Solberg waiting in the wings. We need to trade for a tkachuk or sign rattenan to a 14m contract . We need high end intense power forwards

 

[FiveTacos]

I actually think we look pretty good 5 on 5.

I really like mactavish line with gauthier and fabbri and vatrano and strike with terry is also very solid.

Just Carslson needs to get going and I feel he looked best next to zegras. Killorn zegras and Carlson was solid too.

The problem is they're both good middle 6 lines on a good team. But neither should be your best line. Until we can put together a legit 1st line there will continue to be scoring issues.

 

[NWWisconsinDuck]

I found it interesting that Chiclets interviewed Fowler - asked him about all things Anaheim, even Carlyle… but didn’t (at least that I heard) ask a single thing about Cronin.. telling that maybe they aren’t as positive and certain in their sources as they let on

 

[Mr Rogers]

I found it interesting that Chiclets interviewed Fowler - asked him about all things Anaheim, even Carlyle… but didn’t (at least that I heard) ask a single thing about Cronin.. telling that maybe they aren’t as positive and certain in their sources as they let on

Cronin could’ve been just off limits too. I could see Cam not wanting to talk about him, he seems pretty considerate and wouldn’t want to cause any distractions for the team.

 

[ohcomeonref]

I found it interesting that Chiclets interviewed Fowler - asked him about all things Anaheim, even Carlyle… but didn’t (at least that I heard) ask a single thing about Cronin.. telling that maybe they aren’t as positive and certain in their sources as they let on

Reaching here

 

[Firequacker]

I found it interesting that Chiclets interviewed Fowler - asked him about all things Anaheim, even Carlyle… but didn’t (at least that I heard) ask a single thing about Cronin.. telling that maybe they aren’t as positive and certain in their sources as they let on

Haven't they said they don't have any Ducks sources anyway, it's just what they're hearing from the ether or whatever?

Seems likely to me that Cam just refused to discuss that topic, which probably means nothing beyond "Cam Fowler doesn't like drama" (which tracks). If you really want to spin it for or against Cronin, logically it would go against—why would Fowler refuse if he had good things to say about him?—but even that's probably reading too much into it. (Actually you can spin this the other way too, maybe he had good things to say but the Chiclets guys aren't interested in that.)

 

[Bender66]

Yeah, whatever faults on ice Ducks fans had with Cam, he's never shown himself to be anything but a total class act off ice. Doesn't seem like the kind of guy to slag his former teammates or coaches.

 

[ohcomeonref]

Yeah, whatever faults on ice Ducks fans had with Cam, he's never shown himself to be anything but a total class act off ice. Doesn't seem like the kind of guy to slag his former teammates or coaches.

Typical soft Cam

 

[JonathnTaylorTavares]

Cams key to longevity is injury prevention. Or making sure not to touch anyone

 

[Leonardo87]

Going to make a deal. Carlsson puts up back to back multi point games in the next two and won’t complain about Cronin the rest of the season

 

[2faded]

Going to make a deal. Carlsson puts up back to back multi point games in the next two and won’t complain about Cronin the rest of the season

You sure? That's a lot of games to have to ignore the dumbassery.