Speculation: 2024-25 Roster thread

[AngelDuck]

Killorn was a major risky signing since day 1. Looking like a big L for Verbeek there, hope he can rebound a bit.

 

[robbieboy3686]

Killorn was a major risky signing since day 1. Looking like a big L for Verbeek there, hope he can rebound a bit.

He started slowly last season too. He produced at his contract last season.

 

[Ducks DVM]

He started slowly last season too. He produced at his contract last season.

He had the excuse of breaking his hand in preseason though. No injury excuse this year.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I think Terry’s line is benefitting to an extent from matchups. If so, the effect should be even more obvious at home.

At this point I have to assume Leo/Cutter/Killorn look amazing in practice because otherwise I’m not sure how they’ve been gifted first line status. That said, it was Mac’s line that had the most ice time by a decent margin last night.

Terry and McGinn had the least ice time and they were arguably our best forwards.

I believe the Mac line had an overinflated TOI due to being stuck on ice for what seemed like two minutes in the 2nd period, iirc. If we look at ES TOI, the fourth line played 4th line minutes, but their overall TOI ballooned due to us killing four penalties. Fabbri had over 3 minutes on the PK to lead the forwards with 18:02 total TOI. Terry actually played with Mac and Z b/c Fabbri was tired out from the PK'ing.

Our top-6, it's disappointing. The top line of Cutter-Leo-Killorn line has been kept together all pre-season and Leo-Killorn have been together last season. Still no chemistry. Fabbri-Mac-Z line was put together for one pre-season game. Z went from C to LW to RW in pre-season. Individually, they are putting in the work and therein lies the problem. They're still not cohesive and may need more games to feel each other out.

I just don't like our offense. During the game, I found myself zoning out again like last season. The only excitement we got from this game are from defensive counters, which also explains how our PK unit was able to notch 12 shorties last season.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

He got married. lol

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Since the GDT thread closed, guess this is the place to share the stat card for the game.

The Mac line is yeesh in this metric!

 

[JAHV]

I've been disappointed with Killorn so far, but it's been two games, people. We can let this play out.

 

[MMC]

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