Player Discussion Pavel Mintyukov

[Quack Shot]

Cronin quietly mentions Minty is our best defenseman around the 6 min mark.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Cronin quietly mentions Minty is our best defenseman around the 6 min mark.

That's not what he said. He said that Cam and JD are, along with Minty, our best offensive defensemen.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

Who’s the media guy from Cal St Fullerton? He’s been there two games in a row. Didn’t know anybody other than Derek and occasionally Stephens ever showed up

 

[ADHB]

Who’s the media guy from Cal St Fullerton? He’s been there two games in a row. Didn’t know anybody other than Derek and occasionally Stephens ever showed up

He's been there every home game as far as I know. I recognize the voice. Could be mistaken but think that's Andrew Knoll, the guy from the LAT.

 

[Quack Shot]

That's not what he said. He said that Cam and JD are, along with Minty, our best offensive defensemen.

You’re right, I’ll blame my fever

 

[Leonardo87]

Fowler leads the team with 8 PPP. I think the coaching staff doesn’t much care about HF’s opinion on the matter.

Yeah removing Fowler from one of the units would be silly. He is part of the reason we actually have a solid PP. ES scoring is where the scoring woes are.

If you want to remove one of the forwards on the 2nd unit. And say go with Fowler - Drysdale. Then go for it.

Unit 1: Minty - Leo - Zegras - Rico - McTavish
Unit 2: Fowler- Drysdale - Vatrano - Strome - Terry

Killorn was never great on the PP in his career, so not a big loss there. Should be saving Killorn and Silf for the PK.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Yeah removing Fowler from one of the units would be silly. He is part of the reason we actually have a solid PP. ES scoring is where the scoring woes are.

If you want to remove one of the forwards on the 2nd unit. And say go with Fowler - Drysdale. Then go for it.

Unit 1: Minty - Leo - Zegras - Rico - McTavish
Unit 2: Fowler- Drysdale - Vatrano - Strome - Terry

Killorn was never great on the PP in his career, so not a big loss there. Should be saving Killorn and Silf for the PK.

Those are the groups I think we should run with, carlsson knocks Rico down and Rico knocks strome down, when healthy.

Mintyukov does basically everything you want from a dmen on the powerplay, I wouldn’t even mind having him on a unit with drysdale and kinda play that rover role that neidermyer played.

I think drysdale fowler and Mintyukov are all effective enough to be getting powerplay time, I think lacombe could even get some mins.

Also wouldn’t mind getting Mintyukov a little bit of pk time, to get Fowler’s mins down a bit

 

[Leonardo87]

Those are the groups I think we should run with, carlsson knocks Rico down and Rico knocks strome down, when healthy.

Mintyukov does basically everything you want from a dmen on the powerplay, I wouldn’t even mind having him on a unit with drysdale and kinda play that rover role that neidermyer played.

I think drysdale fowler and Mintyukov are all effective enough to be getting powerplay time, I think lacombe could even get some mins.

Also wouldn’t mind getting Mintyukov a little bit of pk time, to get Fowler’s mins down a bit

Yup. We have three OFD, two of them who are the future. If someone like Killorn or Strome has to sit for one of them so be it.

This season has been another bad one but I do see some bright spots. The PP has enough skill on this roster to have a Top 10 PP, and they are almost there.

Gotta get the ES scoring up.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

You’re right, I’ll blame my fever

Crummy time of year to be sick, hope you are better soon!

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Yup. We have three OFD, two of them who are the future. If someone like Killorn or Strome has to sit for one of them so be it.

This season has been another bad one but I do see some bright spots. The PP has enough skill on this roster to have a Top 10 PP, and they are almost there.

Gotta get the ES scoring up.

I feel like the team scored more before killorn got back

@Hockey Duckie do you know by chance

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

Who’s the media guy from Cal St Fullerton? He’s been there two games in a row. Didn’t know anybody other than Derek and occasionally Stephens ever showed up

Thanks. Didn't know the Times covered the Ducks at all.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I feel like the team scored more before killorn got back

@Hockey Duckie do you know by chance

Ducks	2023-24
Status	Game Set	Games	GF	GF/Game	GA	GA/Game	Shutouts	3 or more goals
W/o Killorn	1 to 10	10​	33​	3.30​	30​	3.00​	0​	6​
W/ Killorn	11 to 33	23​	53​	2.30​	81​	3.52​	0​	8​

I don't think Killorn is the reason for the lack of scoring. Killorn's return coincided with Zegras' injury. In the two games they overlapped, we scored 4 goals against the Yotes on the sixth game of the 6-game win streak and a shutout in the very next game.

In the first 10 games, we were gifted with four hattricks: Vatrano x2, Carlsson, and Terry. In the next 23 games, we have only one hattrick by Rico.

 

[Emerald Duck]

Also wouldn’t mind getting Mintyukov a little bit of pk time, to get Fowler’s mins down a bit

At some point we should let Minty and Lybushkin play together on the PK unit. With Drysdale back, if Minty's PP minutes are reduced then he can work on developing his PK game.

 

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[Random Guy]

He's so fun to watch, next level thinker.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

He's so fun to watch, next level thinker.

I think in 2 years time. He will be our #1

 

[Coffee]

Bruins offer 4 first rounds picks and 3 2nd round picks for him

 

[Coffee]

Bruins offer 4 first rounds picks and 3 2nd round picks for him

Deal or no deal? At least give me an answer, I say kindly to Ducks fans

 

[HanSolo]

Deal or no deal? At least give me an answer, I say kindly to Ducks fans

Personally I say no. The Bruins aren't likely to be bottoming out any time soon so while that'd be a great quantity of opportunities to add young talent, the Ducks are probably looking at 24th-32nd round picks with low second rounders.

Mintyukov is pretty clearly a high potential young player with elite upside. I don't think it's a good idea to move someone like that for a handful of dice rolls. Plus while Drysdale was made expendable by Luneau and Zellweger, they're a notch or two below Mintyukov so moving him before them would be a pretty heavy lossm

 

[Trojans86]

Bruins offer 4 first rounds picks and 3 2nd round picks for him

Timing is way off for the Ducks who will be looking to end the rebuild next year. Value wise is tough too because of how good the Bruins are right now so those picks aren’t worth a kid like Monty who has proved so much in the NHl at such a young age.

 

[Coffee]

Timing is way off for the Ducks who will be looking to end the rebuild next year. Value wise is tough too because of how good the Bruins are right now so those picks aren’t worth a kid like Monty who has proved so much in the NHl at such a young age.

Personally I say no. The Bruins aren't likely to be bottoming out any time soon so while that'd be a great quantity of opportunities to add young talent, the Ducks are probably looking at 24th-32nd round picks with low second rounders.

Mintyukov is pretty clearly a high potential young player with elite upside. I don't think it's a good idea to move someone like that for a handful of dice rolls. Plus while Drysdale was made expendable by Luneau and Zellweger, they're a notch or two below Mintyukov so moving him before them would be a pretty heavy lossm

Oh he’s definitely special. That’s why I proposed the kind of unicorn offer I did

 

[JAHV]

Bruins offer 4 first rounds picks and 3 2nd round picks for him

No

 

[Coffee]

No

Fine.

 

[Arthuros]

Bruins offer 4 first rounds picks and 3 2nd round picks for him

You've already taken Lindholm from us, you can't keep trying to take more defencemen from us.

Hampus having a bit of a down year right now, sure, but we gotta put our foot down.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Deal or no deal? At least give me an answer, I say kindly to Ducks fans

I wouldn’t personally… I think Mintyukov is going to be our #1 down the line, I think he has 60 point top pairing potential

Boston picks will all be in that 20-30 range and 55+ range.

Mintyukov should be 1 of our pillars