Our issues with talent have less to do with drafting and more to do with our transaction history. We simply don't trade for talent often enough and have rarely signed difference makers. Cup contenders, hell, playoff teams, have to hit on all three consistently. We barely participate in two of the three.
Prospect Info: 2024-25 Ducks Prospects
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TheDarkWingThatDucks
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It’s tough as a fan for sure, but seems pretty commonplace in the NHL. The Florida panthers top 10 scorers last year in the regular season on their way to a cup.
Reinhart - ex Sabre 1st round 2nd OA
Tkachuk - ex flame 1st round 6th OA
Barkov - drafted 1st 2nd OA by panthers
Verhaeghe - ex Tampa bay 3rd round pick
Bennet - ex flame 1st round 4th OA
Forsling - ex canuck 5th round pick
Rodrigues - ex Sabre …. Undrafted
Lundell - drafted 1st round 12th OA by oanthers
Montour - ex ducky / 2nd round
Ekman-Larsson - ex yote / 1st round 6OA
2 of the top 10 scorers for the Stanley cup winning Panthers were drafted and developed by only the panthers.
And 5 out of 10 were top 6 picks. (With 1 being a panthers pick)
The opposite of this team would be the Tampa bay lightning who won with mostly drafted players of their own in their top 10 in scoring. Considering our current GM, and inability to bring game changing UFA’s into the fold, this might be the route we are trying to take.
It would be okay if we had someone else's high end players playing for us, but we don't. We have to keep our homegrown talent.
TheDarkWingThatDucks
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I agree and that’s what Tampa Bay did, so good news is they won in Stammer’s 12th year, so about 8-10 more years for us !
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- Summer of 2014, Ducks traded for C Kelser. Went to WCF in 2014-15.
- Lost in 1st round in 2015-16.
- Acquired F Eaves in Feb of 2017. Went to WCF in 2016-17. Eaves got injured prior to the WCF. Reaching the WCF cost us a 2017 first round pick from the Eaves trade.
- Vegas Expansion draft on June 21, 2017. We lost young LD Theodore.
Unfortunately, that 2016-17 season was the last we would see a healthy Kelser and Eaves... but we wouldn't find out until then. Still, we traded traded another young D-man in Vatanen to acquire C/LW Rico on Nov 30th, 2017 because injuries to our center situation. We were super unlucky with injuries and were forced to rush several youth forwards like Steel and Lundestrom.
Could you imagine having a healthy Eaves, Kelser, and Rico for 2017-20?!
I think because we didn't have a balanced draft between 2016-18, we lost out on some more potential defensemen talents. We went forward biased in those three drafts and invested in only two defensemen, one in the 3rd round (Mahura) and sixth round (Drew, who later converted to forward). They could have helped us out more either via trade or our roster.
When we did go back to a balanced draft in 2019, we hit on LD LaCombe (rd 2) and LD Thrun (rd 4). In 2020, we drafted RD Drysdale and parlayed him for LW Cutter Gauthier. We are still waiting to see on 3rd round RD Moore as this is his senior year in college. 2021 already netted us LD Zellweger (rd 2) at the NHL level. For 2022, we grabbed LD Minty (rd 1, 10 OA) and RD Luneau (rd 2). Aside from his behavioral issues. 2023 5th rd pick LD Dionicio is producing offensively. Last draft, 2024, we could have two more finds in LD Solberg (rd 1, 23rd OA) and LD Tarin Smith (rd 3).
I'm glad we went back to balanced drafting. Although, that 2023 draft was forward biased we had six picks in the first three rounds and drafted no defensemen.
Terrance has a goal, masse finished with an assist.
This. Though I'd say the drafting is better than just above average. A lot of our drafted picks tend to perform very well after their draft year. The problem is the development in the AHL and NHL.
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I'd be shocked if he's not in San Diego within the next few days, especially with Clang's injury. Good chance to ease him into the AHL ahead of next season.
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All Mighty
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The Ducks obviously keep an eye on their prospects over there. But I'd say the problem with Clara has been inconsistency. He was celebrated after a great game, then in his next one a few days ago he was really bad and he got pulled. That said, isn't easy when you're the backup.
As we know, Solberg's season with Färjestad has also been up and down. But I think it has a lot to do with management and their strict punishment regime. We could see it again a few weeks ago when Solberg got involved in a fight, that's a no no for this coach and the kid was right back as 7D and TOI less than 10 mins. Now he gets more time on the ice again. I don't know if this is the best for his development, but at least it sounds like he wants to stay there.
As we know, Solberg's season with Färjestad has also been up and down. But I think it has a lot to do with management and their strict punishment regime. We could see it again a few weeks ago when Solberg got involved in a fight, that's a no no for this coach and the kid was right back as 7D and TOI less than 10 mins. Now he gets more time on the ice again. I don't know if this is the best for his development, but at least it sounds like he wants to stay there.
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2 Assists and 19:54 TOI (2nd on his team) for Dionicio in a 7-4 Biel win vs. Geneva.
