Former Ducks - (2023-24 Season Edition )

[Kalv]

Brutal for Drysdale.

Just noticed he also only has 4 points in 17 games for the Flyers, sounds like Torts is trying to coach any sort of offense out of him.

Jamie is having 60% OZ starts (most of any D) which is similar what he got here. So idk how much Torts is to blame here

 

[mightyquack]

Jamie is having 60% OZ starts (most of any D) which is similar what he got here. So idk how much Torts is to blame here

More to coaching then offensive zone starts, pretty sure Torts has already made multiple remarks about his defensive play and needing to 'fit' his system.

Not sure how he goes from a pretty dynamic player in Anaheim to how he is playing in Philly at the moment without coaching being a factor.

 

[Kalv]

More to coaching then offensive zone starts, pretty sure Torts has already made multiple remarks about his defensive play and needing to 'fit' his system.

Not sure how he goes from a pretty dynamic player in Anaheim to how he is playing in Philly at the moment without coaching being a factor.

Flyers are playing zone, so ofc Jamie needs to adjust after our man-to-man defense.
Not that zone starts mean everything, but I have not seen any evidence why Torts is killing his offense as well

 

[Gliff]

Yeah that looks really bad considering his injury history. Anyone else feel really bad for how much money our front office/ jamies bum shoulder may have cost him in the last year

He scored 32 points in 81 NHL games in his D+2. I remember people talking about locking him up asap to like an 8x6 deal.
Since then he has 9 points in the 35 games with what looks like 2 major shoulder injuries.

I feel so bad for him.

 

[GermanRocket7]

Flyers fans haven’t been liking Drysdale lately (mostly because he hasn’t had an impact on their PP) and he just got rocked on his shoulder. Not sure if this is the one that he got surgery on.

Don't want to speculate much into it, but it looks like his shoulder starts bobbling once he hits the ice. Might just be a dislocated shoulder, but it might as well be a shoulder joint sprain. Poor guy just can't catch a break.

Looking back at recent history, how many players did we actually have that were seemingly made of glass in the past 10 years? Després, Eaves, Kase, Jones, Drysdale...that's way too many players who just couldn't get healthy, like, ever.

 

[forever1922]

Man, that's tough for Jamie.

Hope they find a way to fix whatever bugs the shoulder.

To trade Jamie when he did, is looking like one of PVs better moves. I wonder how much PV considered Drysdale's injury history and how much of it was Philly's demand. Right or wrong, it also looks rough for Briere.

 

[Rybread86]

Check in on your Philly fan friends, they are not ok

 

[Terry Yake]

sucks to see and hope he's ok

but making the trade was certainly the right move given drysdale's injury history and zellwegger ready to make the jump

 

[lwvs84]

As fans, we always want to "win" the trade, and I did want to win the trade with Philly... but never like this. I was/am still hoping Drysdale becomes that solid #2/3 D (a better or more consistent version of Fowler), but that Gauthier would be a legit star. Hopefully Jamie is ok and the injury was worse looking than it actually was. Still rooting for him.

 

[duckaroosky]

Check in on your Philly fan friends, they are not ok

Have they ever been ok?

I hope for the best for Drysdale.

 

[Arthuros]

Sad that it happened to be the exact same shoulder.

Pragmatically Verbeek made the right call, but really sucks for Jamie.

 

[Ducks]

Don't want to speculate much into it, but it looks like his shoulder starts bobbling once he hits the ice. Might just be a dislocated shoulder, but it might as well be a shoulder joint sprain. Poor guy just can't catch a break.

Looking back at recent history, how many players did we actually have that were seemingly made of glass in the past 10 years? Després, Eaves, Kase, Jones, Drysdale...that's way too many players who just couldn't get healthy, like, ever.

Despres and Kase still hurt me inside. So much potential with those guys before the concussions started.

 

[MMC]

 

[KelVarnsen]

Dang that sucks for Jamie. He should sit the rest of the year and try to heal up.

 

[Rybread86]

Dang that sucks for Jamie. He should sit the rest of the year and try to heal up.

I hope that's not summary of his career

 

[Anaheim4ever]

I feel bad for Jamie and the fans of Flyers who are classy.
Every Fandom has classy fans and the bigger the Fandom the more the bad apples stand out.

Flyers have actually had bad luck with Injuries like the Ducks so as trade partners they must have really liked Drysdale or the other trade offers were worse. it's sad realizing that they had a potential franchise center in #2 pick Patrick at one point and then #5 Pick Cutter looked like a good 2C of the future. Both things went wrong for them in different ways.

 

[KelVarnsen]

I hope that's not summary of his career

Unfortunately seems headed in that direction. Hope for his sake that changes.

 

[FiveTacos]

The additional 2nd we had to include was probably insurance for just this scenario. If JD had been healthy the whole time it's probably a straight up trade, but when a dude misses like 100 games in a year and a half ...

 

[MMC]

 

[Gliff]

The additional 2nd we had to include was probably insurance for just this scenario. If JD had been healthy the whole time it's probably a straight up trade, but when a dude misses like 100 games in a year and a half ...

If he had been healthy and progressed in his D+3 and D+4 into a 50ish point top pairing guy then he wouldnt have been traded.

Glad to hear it isnt 100% doom and gloom.

 

[Ducks]

Looked like a dislocation potentially, which if that's the case shouldn't be too bad.

 

[MMC]

 

[Mr Rogers]

the teams between 2013 and 2015 were so likable. a real pity they never won the big one. 13-14 in particular might've been the most exciting Ducks team ever.

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Just don’t mention him leaving Marian Gaborik wide open in front of the goddamn net at the end of Game 1. God, that series still pisses me off to no end

 

[ScarTroy]

Just don’t mention him leaving Marian Gaborik wide open in front of the goddamn net at the end of Game 1. God, that series still pisses me off to no end

And that f***ing icing by him in the same game I’ll never forget.