Former Ducks (2024-25 edition)

[Mr Rogers]

Larsson will also be a more of a "what if" than a true bust for me. He was looking pretty damn good at a young age before the major injury

Curious what you remember seeing that was promising. To me, he was our Peter Holland of dmen draft picks - Absolutely as vanilla as they come.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Curious what you remember seeing that was promising. To me, he was our Peter Holland of dmen draft picks - Absolutely as vanilla as they come.

He was looking like another quality D prospect find for a couple years there post draft, not as high upside as others but still intriguing. Most notably when he broke camp with the Ducks in his D+2, jumping both Theodore and Montour in the queue (despite them being two and three years older). Didn't have their offensive side but appeared like he should have a long career as a smooth skating, minute muncher if more of the quiet/unassuming type. Then it was at the end of that same year (his age 19 season) where he has the major knee surgery and I don't think he ever quite looked the same.

 

[Mr Rogers]

He was looking like another quality D prospect find for a couple years there post draft, not as high upside as others but still intriguing. Most notably when he broke camp with the Ducks in his D+2, jumping both Theodore and Montour in the queue (despite them being two and three years older). Didn't have their offensive side but appeared like he should have a long career as a smooth skating, minute muncher if more of the quiet/unassuming type. Then it was at the end of that same year (his age 19 season) where he has the major knee surgery and I don't think he ever quite looked the same.

Fair enough.

2015 is definitely not one of the more frustrating drafts for us IMO because we were picking late and we still got Terry out of it, although we did miss out on a couple very good players that went in the 2nd round. But yeah not nearly as disappointing as some other years.

I think what was most disappointing was this common theme that sort of accumulated over the years of missing out on players (especially forwards) drafted in the 2nd round and beyond. You can’t blame them for any one pick/player or draft even but it’s really the accumulation over time that’s kind of frustrating. Could argue we still are struggling with that under Verbeek as well.