GDT: Game #5 of the season Ducks visit Bruins 7:00 PM ET Oct. 20, 2022

[IDuck]

i will give beeker a lot of credit with vatrano, he has been something this team has been missing for a long long time

 

[c4rcy]

I love Vatrano - what a money signing

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

Vatrano can shoot the puck!!

 

[67 others]

I mean those were top prospects and their young people would hope they are getting better naturally as well... Terry just needed to get bigger and stronger. Who knows how much better or worse they would have been with anyone else coaching them. Could have been Eakins just saying... There's progression at that age regardless.

Terry was a 5th round pick never expected to amount to anything.

 

[bsu]

Terry was a 5th round pick never expected to amount to anything.

He showed the same shit the season before he broke out. He just was built like a 16 year old. At the draft yes but after that we expected things. Some of us definitely expected this......

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Sure, there are many ways development can go. But, there is no denying several young players have dramatically improved under Eakins. Whether people are willing to credit him as having a hand in that is up to them.

It isn't just young players who improved. Des, Gudbranson, Hakanpaa, and Fleury all looked better with Anaheim. Fleury is still somewhat a youth.

 

[Ducks DVM]

Oh he definitely had a hand in it. That doesnt change the fact I'd think they would be better off with an actual good NHL coach. The biggest thing we did for our youth last year was allow them to play big minutes and situations.

I think that the biggest thing helping their development was their appropriate use, appropriate challenging, appropriate sheltering, and appropriate demotions.

It’s a rubbish argument to say that “yeah, they developed well, but they probably woulda developed just as well or better under some other coach”. Especially when the initial statement was challenging whether he was a coach that could develop young players. PLENTY of other teams have top prospects whose development has lagged significantly more than our kids have.

 

[bsu]

I think that the biggest thing helping their development was their appropriate use, appropriate challenging, appropriate sheltering, and appropriate demotions.

It’s a rubbish argument to say that “yeah, they developed well, but they probably woulda developed just as well or better under some other coach”. Especially when the initial statement was challenging whether he was a coach that could develop young players. PLENTY of other teams have top prospects whose development has lagged significantly more than our kids have.

I would assume that was more of a management decision. We were playing for nothing. Eakins did have a hand in it, probably a big one but yeah he's not a good nhl coach same thing happened with the Oilers learning bad habits as young players. Defensively which young player other than Lundestrom improved? And Lundestrom was already a solid defensive player before Eakins.

 

[Arthuros]

Vatrano can shoot the puck!!

More importantly, he WANTS to shoot the puck!

 

[Hockey Duckie]

McTavish does know where to place that puck for lots of people.

 

[c4rcy]

McTavish has been decent today - very pass-heavy to start

 

[Ducks DVM]

He showed the same shit the season before he broke out. He just was built like a 16 year old. At the draft yes but after that we expected things. Some of us definitely expected this......

Terry himself discussed how the coaching staff challenged him to stop being a fancy perimeter setup guy and to start shooting and taking command of the play.

We hoped he would turn into what he turned into, and I say that as one of the first to push back on people saying he wasn’t that good of a prospect.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

i will give beeker a lot of credit with vatrano, he has been something this team has been missing for a long long time

Verbeek put thought behind signing forwards with Strome, Vatrano, and Regenda. I've always said that. It's his blueliner acquisitions that feel like an afterthought.

 

[dracom]

2nd time the refs skate has gotten in the way of a ducks player trying to clear the puck

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Zero movement from PP1, way too static.

Z doesn’t look engaged

 

[c4rcy]

I honestly think Z and Terry should be switching spots on the PP1 - They both look ineffective on their strong side

 

[Static]

Man what a shot that was. That won't get old.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

No net presence on the pp.. Everyone to the outside.. Horrible

 

[Ducks DVM]

i will give beeker a lot of credit with vatrano, he has been something this team has been missing for a long long time

Verbeek did a very good job getting the forwards that are exactly the type to teach our young kids how to be hard to play against and provide leadership.

The defense and team toughness are kinda placeholders right now.

 

[bsu]

Verbeek did a very good job getting the forwards that are exactly the type to teach our young kids how to be hard to play against and provide leadership.

The defense and team toughness are kinda placeholders right now.

Yeah this team is super hard to play against it's working

 

[IDuck]

Verbeek put thought behind signing forwards with Strome, Vatrano, and Regenda. I've always said that. It's his blueliner acquisitions that feel like an afterthought.

agree.....but i think the intention was there, I refuse to believe that the current klingberg is who he thought he was signing (and klingberg has a lot to play for/prove this season), but it seemed like he did a good job (at face value) insulating and trying to shore up the d core at the time

 

[c4rcy]

Regenda deserves to be a regular - he is a smart player

 

[Arthuros]

I mean, this is one of the best periods we've had in these few games, and it hasn't even been that good.

 

[dracom]

holy f*** the refs are getting in our way constantly and it always ends up helping the Bruins.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

We need someone besides Terry to win a battle. One guy, I'll take one.