Speculation: 2024-25 - Free Agency/Trade Thread

[Terry Yake]

at least trade gibson already

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

Pinto for zegras and watch all your heads explode.

Trading a 23 year old for another 23 year old that has less points than your 23 year old has assists seems like a bad idea.

 

[Emerald Duck]

We should remind "Standing Pat" Verbeek that re-signing two of your own RFAs who you refused to QO yesterday doesn't really count as being active in FA.

 

[JAHV]

The picks and prospects that will return a good top 4D or top 6F are exactly the ones you won’t want to give up.

I'd rather give those guys up than sign 98% of the deals that got signed today. And the 2% of deals I would sign (Lomberg, Stenlund, etc.) aren't the type of players who would require good prospects in trade.

I'm fine trading next year's 1st in the right deal. I'm fine trading LaCombe or Zellweger or Gaucher or Colangelo in the right deal. Package them with other assets and upgrade somewhere. It's not as clean as a UFA deal, but these deals just aren't smart for the Ducks.

 

[Beckett]

Red Wings got Talbot... so guessing theyre out on Gibby.

 

[nbducksfan19]

Would rather give up minor assets for cap dumps who are decent players on slightly inflated short term deals - compared to giving a similar player a ridiculous long term deal. There was very little that happened today that I feel envious of

Any ideas on who these decent players on slightly inflated short term deals are?

 

[ohcomeonref]

Wow… if only young players improved instead of staying exactly the same as their 1st or 2nd year, this team could get better.

It’s July 1st, so many chicken littles and drama queens here.

Will you change your tune if we're bottom-3 again? How many years of that is too much?

 

[The Duck Knight]

Red Wings got Talbot... so guessing theyre out on Gibby.

Yep. Columbus maybe for Gibby is the most likely if at all.

We could even make it 1 stop shopping.

Laine+Elvis for Gibby+Lacombe+2nd

 

[Boo Boo]

What could we get for a 2025 top 10 protected first?

 

[ohcomeonref]

I wonder what's happening with McGroarty

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

I know some of these deals were horrible.. But cmon PV could have signed someone to make a difference atleast.. He talked big but didnt do shit.

 

[Boo Boo]

I wonder what's happening with McGroarty

Would love to acquire him somehow

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

I come, I see we haven’t done anything shy of signing a couple of our own guys, I leave.

The Jackets giving Sean Monahan that contract is absurd though, I’d bet everything I have he doesn’t even come close to seeing all 5 years of it

 

[Reveille1984]

What could we get for a 2025 top 10 protected first?

Not much I'm guessing.

Unless Verbeek works some kind of trade miracles, we're pretty much a guaranteed bottom five team again next year.

 

[190Octane]

Will you change your tune if we're bottom-3 again? How many years of that is too much?

If the team is bottom 3 again without a ton of injuries causing it, signing two players wouldn’t have put the team in the playoffs.

Top players aren’t coming here via FA until the team is on the cusp.

 

[Son of Gib]

The picks and prospects that will return a good top 4D or top 6F are exactly the ones you won’t want to give up.

A roster only has 23 players. No way we're able to keep everyone that becomes NHL ready, especially in a year or two.

 

[Rybread86]

No idea what DET is up to with the goalies. Husso, Talbot and now Campbell

 

[mightyquack]

The picks and prospects that will return a good top 4D or top 6F are exactly the ones you won’t want to give up.

I'd be fine with moving any of our young players not currently in the NHL (obviously players just drafted are excluded from this) depending on the player we'd be going for.

In terms of our NHL players, maybe unpopular but I can see LaCombe getting moved this off-season in a package for an upgrade. Don't see him beating out Minty/Zellweger and don't think his long term NHL future is playing on the right side.

 

[KelVarnsen]

I just saw a tweet from capfriendly:

Are the Ducks really the only team in the NHL who hasn’t signed anyone?????

 

[tomd]

A roster only has 23 players. No way we're able to keep everyone that becomes NHL ready, especially in a year or two.

This is the time of year when teams are trying to improve not give up top players for unproven prospects

 

[mightyquack]

I just saw a tweet from capfriendly:

Are the Ducks really the only team in the NHL who hasn’t signed anyone?????

You'd hope the Washington Capitals would have a better idea of what's happening in the league then posting the question on twitter

 

[KelVarnsen]

Holy shit balls but Stand Pat is going to have to take a terrible contract and like a 2nd rounder just to make the floor. That’s rad.

 

[tomd]

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I'd be fine with moving any of our young players not currently in the NHL (obviously players just drafted are excluded from this) depending on the player we'd be going for.

In terms of our NHL players, maybe unpopular but I can see LaCombe getting moved this off-season in a package for an upgrade. Don't see him beating out Minty/Zellweger and don't think his long term NHL future is playing on the right side.

LaCombe isn’t going to return a top 4 RHD or top 6RW unless the package gets much sweeter

 

[duxfan1101]

No idea what DET is up to with the goalies. Husso, Talbot and now Campbell

They still have Lyon, too.

 

[FiveHoleTickler]