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.

 

[Static]

I know we will probably shy away from another first time NHL coach, but man this guy seems like a young coaching star.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

I know we will probably shy away from another first time NHL coach, but man this guy seems like a young coaching star.

He’d never pass an interview with PV.

 

[LuGBuG]

If this keeps going the way it’s gone the last 10 games. Be prepared because like it or not, solid chance Cronin won’t be going anywhere.

 

[NWWisconsinDuck]

To me, this quote pretty much discredits anything chiclets had to say

 

[MMC]

To me, this quote pretty much discredits anything chiclets had to say

Another Frank Seravalli masterclass

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I know we will probably shy away from another first time NHL coach, but man this guy seems like a young coaching star.

Why not attract him to coach our AHL squad, since it's like 85% youths. McIlvane did get the short end of the stick with a shit roster, but I don't see much youth development for the past two seasons. The two youths who have looked great are Zell and Colangelo, but I think it's because their talents are that great. Everyone else is like meh down there.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

Seems like Fowler leaving and Trouba joining has made a big impact too

Trouba coming in Solidified defensive positions. Fowler had to go. No other choice. Having trouba and Doumilin as a shut down pair makes the ducks that much better. It frees up lacombe and Gudas. To play easier minutes. Which is why if this continues.. I could see the ducks keeping dumo..

 

[Anaheim4ever]

To me, this quote pretty much discredits anything chiclets had to say

While I don't think Cronin is a good coach at all, I don't think he's toxic either.
If anything the Gen Z players are learning to be mentally tougher under him as opposed to Eakins who was too soft. This is why I want Boudreau as an interim coach, he's a players coach but he isn't so soft that he's gonna let players be horrifying bad defensively. I think Cronin has been way too harsh towards Zegras but even Boudreau would have him working on the defensive side of his game.

I never would have guessed it but it looks like LaCombe is gonna be long time Duck and a guy who eventually gets leadership role with the team.

 

[mightyquack]

If this keeps going the way it’s gone the last 10 games. Be prepared because like it or not, solid chance Cronin won’t be going anywhere.

Not a bad thing if they keep the structured play they've played the last stretch of games. Feels like the first time in the better part of a decade we've actually played good hockey with structure. Going to need to see this until the end of the season though.

Why not attract him to coach our AHL squad, since it's like 85% youths. McIlvane did get the short end of the stick with a shit roster, but I don't see much youth development for the past two seasons. The two youths who have looked great are Zell and Colangelo, but I think it's because their talents are that great. Everyone else is like meh down there.

Great college coaches are not going to toil away in the AHL. When he leaves Denver, he's going straight to the NHL without a doubt.

 

[Gliff]

Not a bad thing if they keep the structured play they've played the last stretch of games. Feels like the first time in the better part of a decade we've actually played good hockey with structure. Going to need to see this until the end of the season though.



Great college coaches are not going to toil away in the AHL. When he leaves Denver, he's going straight to the NHL without a doubt.

Is that true? Isnt it pretty rare for NCAA coaches to go straight to NHL head coach?
Its why it was so shocking when Hakstol was hired in Philly and Montgomery was hired in Dallas.

Typically they go to the AHL or NHL assistant.

 

[Hey234]

Some interesting comments about the team, structure, and locker room in Stephens' article on the Athletic:

“The framework for our team has been there,” said Troy Terry, their best player, who has five goals in his last six games and a team-leading 14 for the year. “I think our D-zone’s been good the whole year. And a lot of times this year, structurally, I don’t think we’ve had many bad games in the last month or so. Our issue has just been maybe a lack of scoring. Just being able to beat some good teams and some different guys, the puck’s going in for them … it’s just a game of confidence. And I think within our structure and game plan that’s been set up for us, we’re still executing it and it’s giving us the opportunity to succeed. And then once we’re getting into those scoring positions, it seems like everyone has a little more confidence. Kind of no matter what the score is, we just kind of believe in here. We’re ready to take that next step as a group and we’re ready to win these big games.”

“We’re just playing,” Gibson said. “We can only control what we do in the locker room here. Like I keep going back to it, we’re all on the same page. We’re connected. We’re playing together. We’re playing for each other, and I think it’s showing there night after night.”