These are professional athletes. It might be more difficult, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with practicing and then playing in the same day in the preseason/offseason. It's just conditioning. It happens at high levels of every sport.
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Dr Johnny Fever
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There's no way Cam will refuse to report to camp with time left on a valid contract. That's nothing more than a load of BS. He may have asked for a trade but it isn't his style to just refuse to honor a valid contract. This kind of shit from the media is really annoying.
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I also don’t think Fowler would fail to report to camp, but I also think not showing up to camp is totally different from threatening to not report to camp. Assuming that rumor is true, it’s probably just a bluff to get things moving the way he wants them to.
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1 things for certain we need to keep toxic cam away from the young players.
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Pretty bizarre to me that Lindstrom is only getting a PTO. I’m not saying he’s the next Forsling but he was +13 last season in like 35 games on a pretty bad team. Only 25 years old
Tough to imagine he’s worse than some of the guys other teams are carrying on their rosters..
And he’s a RD which is the most bizarre thing about him not being signed.
He was a +13 because his PDO was 107. In other words, the Ducks shooting percentage while he was on the ice was unsustainable. It's not like Lindstrom was Paul Coffey back there, sending guys on breakaways. His possession numbers were not very good, although he did start most of his shifts in the D-zone.
He was meh. Gudas is obviously ahead of him on the right side, and I'd play Dumoulin, Vaakanainen, and Zellweger over there before him. I think the only way he makes the team is if Luneau and LaCombe are both heading to San Diego.
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That was a weird one, I thought lindstorm was very serviceable for us…. I imagine there is still a shot depending on the plan for luneau zellweger lacombe
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You know you keep saying things like this, but you're aware this only happened in the preseason, right, and not the regular season?
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If fowler Truly felt this way.. Than why did he do the publicity with the new jerseys and all.. Hes picture is on the ducks main page.. Something happened that made him upset.
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At least he didn’t say he’ll never play another game for the Anaheim Ducks.
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I still think it’s asinine, and likely the cause of several of the team injuries. There were also multiple games where Cronin admitted they may have started slow in games because of too hard practices.
SmokeyDuck
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This is most likely media garbage but I wonder if Fowler wants to be captain and Cronin/PV feel otherwise, creating a divide. There is some smoke about Gudas being a named captain, and he is much more of the lead from the trenches style that I would expect Cronin/PV to favor in a leader. Plus I only see Gudas being around for 2-3 years more then you can name one of the young players captain. Either way this is just pure speculation on my part.
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But you posted stuff like this many times, implying they were doing it all season, and here you specifically said that Cam would be upset about having a full practice and then playing 25 minutes the same night. Obviously no one was playing 25 minutes in a preseason game.
I respect your opinion, but I disagree, I don't have an issue with having a full practice in the morning and then half of the players playing 15-20 shifts in a meaningless game 8 hours later. I would much rather have a team practice more in the preseason, compared to what is typically done, where they have only 3-4 practices and then start playing games, knowing that full practices are rare once the regular season starts.
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fowler has done nothing to make a case for the captaincy, so lol if it's that
i can't see him not reporting, but it wouldn't surprise me if he privately asked for a trade. can't really blame him if he wants to play for a winner since he's on the wrong end of 30 and this team isn't a contender
i can't see him not reporting, but it wouldn't surprise me if he privately asked for a trade. can't really blame him if he wants to play for a winner since he's on the wrong end of 30 and this team isn't a contender
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Overtraining physically through a fire hose can absolutely cause injuries. Overtraining is a pretty well documented way to cause injuries, it’s an odd position to think it’s not plausible. Obviously I have no way to say it DID happen, but Cronin’s system was deceived as significantly more difficult than anything the veterans had ever seen (from multiple teams), so it’s not like it’s a crazy thought that it could play into things.
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