Former Ducks - (2023-24 Season Edition )

[Dr Johnny Fever]

I am so f***ing tired of Toronto trying to sell Reaves as some huge impact player on their team of losers. He’s done and other than fighting he never was jack shit.

 

[Terry Yake]

So living duck legend sam steel returns tomorrow

hat trick incoming

 

[SmokeyDuck]

Perry has more fights than Reaves last year lol

 

[Masch78]

The big swing and miss was Ritchie obviously. He was picked before Larkin, Fiala, and Tuch and it’s fair to be critical of it at this point.

The 2016 and 2017 drafts just weren’t very good league wide honestly. Lack of talent

Ritchie wasn't a big swing back that day.

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He was ranked 6th in their consensus ranking. Fiala was #13th, Larking was #17th and Tuch #18th, Pasternak was #20th.

Ritchie was a no-brainer at #10.

 

[AngelDuck]

Ritchie wasn't a big swing back that day.

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He was ranked 6th in their consensus ranking. Fiala was #13th, Larking was #17th and Tuch #18th, Pasternak was #20th.

Ritchie was a no-brainer at #10.

I’m saying in hindsight it was a big strikeout. It’s easy to say in hindsight it obviously though

Perry has more fights than Reaves last year lol

Perry has 360 more career goals than Reaves

And that’s not even counting playoffs

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Perry also has more Gordie Howe hat tricks.

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

 

[All Mighty]

 

[Sean Garrity]

I really want Klingberg to do well, and still think he's a good player in the right role, but man Toronto was not the place to go to to play some under the radar hockey. Go to Carolina over D'Angelo? Not sure of the signings timeline.

 

[robbieboy3686]

The organization and Perry had to move on, and Perry is still probably my favorite Duck of all time.

He’s my all time favorite player as well

 

[KelVarnsen]

Klingberg is not a good hockey player lol.

He really screwed up by not taking the alleged long term deal he was offered before joining the Ducks.

 

[Arthuros]

I never thought I'd be one of those guys, but I hope the Swedish giraffe continues to embarrass himself under the media spotlight.

 

[pbgoalie]

They were so excited when he ran a few power plays like he is capable of. Just like I was in Klingberga first games.

Then you realize, he just sucks at every other thing.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Eberle made to answer for that awful hit that broke Cogs neck in the playoffs

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Hawk with a pretty blatant mugging on Konecny (almost looks like he went for an RKO), and then gets dropped by a right from Seeler

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Klingberg is not a good hockey player lol.

He really screwed up by not taking the alleged long term deal he was offered before joining the Ducks.

Verbeek admitted that we offered him a multi-year contract, but it was Klingberg and his agent that called back wanting a one-year, $7 mil contract. We lucked out.

 

[JAHV]

Milano just roofed a shot against the Devils. Washington looks slower than molasses and yet they're up 3-0. I wouldn't mind getting Milano back to play with Zegras, although Cronin would probably lose what little hair he has left.

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

Milano is COOKIN tonight

 

[WhatTheDuck]

I'm not seeing this chimp with a bazooka thing, this guy is downright charitable.

 

[Arthuros]

Verbeek admitted that we offered him a multi-year contract, but it was Klingberg and his agent that called back wanting a one-year, $7 mil contract. We lucked out.

If I had to witness even 1 more year of the Swedish giraffe playing "defence", I'd probably lose the will to live.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

If I had to witness even 1 more year of the Swedish giraffe playing "defence", I'd probably lose the will to live.

To be fair, the Swedish Giraffe did improve his play as the season went. All we did was trade two players in D Klingberg and D Kulikov at the TDL, which dropped our play significantly to land the worst record in the league.

Ducks	2022-23	Game	Splits
Game Set	Games	W	L	OTL	Pts	Pts Pct
Total	82​	23​	47​	12​	58​	35.4%​
1 to 25	25​	6​	16​	3​	15​	30.0%​
26 to 49	24​	9​	13​	2​	20​	41.7%​
50 to 61	12​	5​	5​	2​	12​	50.0%​
62 to 82 (TDL)	21​	3​	13​	5​	11​	26.2%​

I am still glad we no longer have Klingberg b/c all the new personnel on the blue line are better than him at defense. New personnel = Gudas, Lyubushkin, LaCombe, and MIntyukov.

 

[Arthuros]

To be fair, the Swedish Giraffe did improve his play as the season went. All we did was trade two players in D Klingberg and D Kulikov at the TDL, which dropped our play significantly to land the worst record in the league.

Ducks	2022-23	Game	Splits
Game Set	Games	W	L	OTL	Pts	Pts Pct
Total	82​	23​	47​	12​	58​	35.4%​
1 to 25	25​	6​	16​	3​	15​	30.0%​
26 to 49	24​	9​	13​	2​	20​	41.7%​
50 to 61	12​	5​	5​	2​	12​	50.0%​
62 to 82 (TDL)	21​	3​	13​	5​	11​	26.2%​

I am still glad we no longer have Klingberg b/c all the new personnel on the blue line are better than him at defense. New personnel = Gudas, Lyubushkin, LaCombe, and MIntyukov.

He definitely got "better" as the season went on, but if you pay a guy $7M he needs to play like it all the time.

Best I can say in terms of direct impact (as opposed to other players filling holes) is that we got Nesterenko out of the trade, and that's not saying much yet.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

He definitely got "better" as the season went on, but if you pay a guy $7M he needs to play like it all the time.

Best I can say in terms of direct impact (as opposed to other players filling holes) is that we got Nesterenko out of the trade, and that's not saying much yet.

Klingberg served his purpose. Got us over the salary floor. Got us Nesterenko. Helped us land Carlsson. That latter is saying very much as a potential franchise 1C.

Verbeek got lucky that Klingberg didn't accept his multi-year contract. I was frightened when we signed Klingberg b/c he lost two defensive power house d-men and replaced them with an OFD who stopped playing defense. In fact, we didn't replace Lindholm and Manson's talent at all last season.

Verbeek's roster in 2022-23 was a tank job, which was probably due to his bad scouting of pro players and lack of physical balance. The pro player acquisitions are better talented with physical balance. Also helps the youths are much more talented than the 2022-23 group.

 

[MMC]

 

[FiveHoleTickler]

May as well have called it quits over the summer. Could've saved us a roster spot in pre-season and training camp.