Reveille1984
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Speculation: Anaheim Ducks Training camp/Preseason 2024 (First Preseason game Sept 24th @7pm PT)
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Unless you're in the first year of a complete tear-down, every GM of a below average team is going to say something like that. It's meaningless and harmless. Not worth getting upset over.
The Midnight Burrito
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Especially after he admitting totally whiffing on signing the impact guys he wanted to sign. Getting middling replacements for Rico and Lyubushkin instead of upgrades makes the playoffs pretty hard to imagine without huge seasons from 5/7 of the kids (Z, Mac, Cutter, Leo, Mintyukov, Zellweger, Dostal).
Playing meaningful games after the all star break before falling 15-20 points short of the playoffs seems more plausible and if you squint, that’s kinda what he said, so I’ll take it.
It's the same thing he said last year. Play games during the spring where, technically, all going incredibly well and every other team failing, a fringe playoff push could be possible. Just so that there's an overall sense of gradual improvement and an upward trajectory.
For some reason, everyone took that to mean "we want to make the playoffs" last year. Don't fall for the same language twice.
For some reason, everyone took that to mean "we want to make the playoffs" last year. Don't fall for the same language twice.
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idk that it matters what type of replacements we brought in, it’s always going to depend on the young guys taking a significant step up.
The young guys taking step forward goes a long way for our “meaningful games played”
I don’t expect to be battling for playoffs this year, I do expect to be competitive most nights tho(assuming injuries don’t pile up) .
I see gauthier as Henrique replacement, fabbri as bottom 6 help
The young guys taking step forward goes a long way for our “meaningful games played”
I don’t expect to be battling for playoffs this year, I do expect to be competitive most nights tho(assuming injuries don’t pile up) .
I see gauthier as Henrique replacement, fabbri as bottom 6 help
I want to see Verbeek's face and hear his comments when one day in April I open up the Ducks Management thread after McTavish has had yet another middling season, Terry has been invisible for most of it, Leo has spent time injured, and Zegras has been traded away at the deadline.
Are we still going to be in the hunt for the playoffs the following year?
Are we still going to be in the hunt for the playoffs the following year?
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All it requires is that all the other teams in the Pacific regress.
In unrelated news, the Anaheim Ducks have announced the hiring of Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly as “Special Assistants” to Mister Verbeek.
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To be fair to the team if our main guys can stay healthy that equals about 130 more games where a core level player is playing rather than a call up which is kind of like adding 2 good free agents
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What do people expect him to say? He knows where this team is at and that it would take amazing improvement from the young players to be competitive. He's not very good at the PR aspect of being a GM, but this is kind of how he has to spin it. Fans that expect a bottom 3 team to make the playoffs the next year through magical FA signings are the ones who need to get real.
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He actively attempted to get big fish, didn’t work out…. Continue to let kids develop and hope the team shows some potential this season that maybe helps free agents want to come here.
For me being competitive most of the season and 3 or 4 of the young guys taking significant steps up would be a win… drafting 8-12(pre lottery)
AngelDuck
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We’re not going to be in the playoffs. Verbeek knows this and it’s part of his plan. Don’t think for a second the rebuild is quite over yet. Although we’re definitely at the tail end of it IMO
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Verbeek is essentially at the point of the rebuild where he said the team was when he took it over. Should be 2-3 more seasons away from legitimately flirting with the playoffs.
AngelDuck
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I think they’ll flirt with it next year and then make it the following year (2026-2027).
But I’m pretty bullish
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Yeah, I’m hedging because of the uncertainty around Vatrano and Gudas, with no obvious replacement for either likely to be available for either by the time their contracts are up.
Somebody on Reddit was at the early skates and said Z’s skating looks noticeably better
Reveille1984
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I think we kind of have to do what it takes to hold onto Vatrano at this point given the alternatives. Outside of Gauthier who is 20 years old and completely unproven, he's the only real "sniper" type player that we have.
He's obviously not a 60 point player and won't repeat last year, but if he's willing to negotiate something reasonable I'd definitely keep him around.
There was a video on Ducks insta where he skated in the offensive zone. Looked really really well with his skating yeah
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70sSanO
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To be fair he didn't says he thinks we'll make the playoffs, just that he wants us to
Only 13 weeks until Christmas. I think PV is hoping he can find his free agents at the North Pole.
“…and a RHD, and a Top 6, and a pony, and a…”
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Lines combos for these are still the same ones posted in the tweets that can be found in the first few pages of this thread (they made another tweet that the lines for day 3 would be the same as the last 2, but I didn't bother posting it)
