The Official 2015-16 Anaheim Ducks Thread

[nate]

The only reason I would have been ok paying that is because it would have seriously sent Cory over the deep end when Palmeiri was traded lol.

[gotbeer]

Dreger reporting Belesky to Boston for 5 years at a shade under 4 mil a year.  **** that Bels, how do you not stayin in Anaheim?

 

I think his agent overestimated what he was worth in FA'cy.  And Murray doesn't F around.  You say no, then we find something else.  And I like what Murray found much better.

[gotbeer]

Weird signings by the Ducks.  Guess mainly for Depth in the AHL level?

 

Ducks sign Hackett, Mueller, Piskula to contracts

[gotbeer]

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/

 

Ducks Land Horcoff

Shawn Horcoff agrees to 1 year deal in Anaheim. 

Source: @darrendreger

Discuss | ANA Payroll

 

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=773582#&navid=nhl-search

 

$1.75 million.

Edited July 2, 2015 by gotbeer

[gotbeer]

I like this move.  Gives us another leader in the house.  Depth.  He's cheap and it's a one year deal.  

[nate]

Nate Thompson insurance. Good stuff.

[gotbeer]

Winners & Losers on Day 1 of NHL Free Agency

LOSERS

1. Matt Beleskey’s worth

Matt Beleskey is not worth a five-year contract. But at $19 million total â€“ $3.8 million salary cap hit per-year – over five years, that’s not a bad value for the 20-goal scorer. The thought was Beleskey would want somewhere in the ballpark of between $4 million and $5 million per-year. He was pretty much the consensus top unrestricted free agent forward going into this offseason, and normally those get paid a lot more than $3.8 million per-year.

2. Matt Beleskey’s Stanley Cup future

Maybe Sweeney’s offer was the best Beleskey received. But if you’re Beleskey, do you really have faith the Bruins general manager is handling his team’s salary cap crunched rebuild the right way? At least the Blackhawks are getting NHL-ready assets to replace a lot of their players they need to let go. Sweeney seems to keep whiffing all over the place. Beleskey was a win away from a Cup Final with the Ducks last year. He’ll be lucky to get anywhere close to that with the Bruins next season.

 

[Pujols4MVP]

Quality Bargain Bob signing. If Horcoff doesn't work out & Thompsons back sooner they don't end up spending too much on a bad investment.

[OCAngelsNotLAA]

I would have rather had Vermette at 2 years, 1.875mil per year instead of Horcoff, but who knows if Vermette even wanted to come here. 

[HaloCory22]

I can't believe Vermette went back to AZ for that cheap. Ducks should have pounced on that.

[nate]

Apparently he wanted to go back to Arizona and had better offers.  He never wanted to leave there in the first place.

[halobob]

Vermette's contract is 2 years 7.5 mil total so $3.75 mil per year.  Still a good deal for Yotes but not like it would be at 1.875 mil per year.  

[halobob]

On a different note I am looking through the Ducks ticket market today and someone has seats on stubhub for the 11/30 game vs. Vancouver for $12.78 per ticket which is a phenomenal deal, someone should jump on that.  

[Gavin]

How sick was that trade for Arizona? They got a first and a somewhat decent D prospect for Vermette who ends up signing back with AZ in the offseason. That's pretty Damon good asset management.

Cory, you're right. He never wanted to leave the org, but that's still a fantastic turnaround for the yotes.

[OCAngelsNotLAA]

damn I thought that deal was too good to be true for Vermette.  Last time I trust Espn's free agent tracker

[halobob]

ESPN is the worst for hockey...my phone update told me Sharks traded Etem to Rangers for Hagelin.  

[halobob]

The only move I'd like to see the Ducks make at this point is signing Semin.  Putting him with the twins and Hagelin on the 2nd line with Silf and Kes would make us unbelievably hard to play against.  If we can get him for something like 3/9 that'd be unreal and since he is getting paid so much by Carolina anyway, maybe he signs for that.  

[mrwicked]

What's insane is that we have only 3 RFAs left to sign, and we are still $3m under the cap floor.

This is a team one win away from the cup finals.

Talk about beautiful cap management.

 

Next offseason however will be a different story - we have what, 7 RFAs to sign?

 

With all the cap space this year they should go for broke and sign some of the guys that get bought-out for one year, relatively high salary, deals.

 

Or offer sheet Tarasenko.

[HaloCory22]

Good call, HB. I'd definitely take a flyer on Semin. Hasn't blown anyone away the past 2 seasons but with top talent like our top 2 lines he can be very effective. 

[nate]

Semin is also a headcase.  Probably best to stay away.

[Pujols4MVP]

What's insane is that we have only 3 RFAs left to sign, and we are still $3m under the cap floor.

This is a team one win away from the cup finals.

Talk about beautiful cap management.

 

Next offseason however will be a different story - we have what, 7 RFAs to sign?

 

With all the cap space this year they should go for broke and sign some of the guys that get bought-out for one year, relatively high salary, deals.

 

Or offer sheet Tarasenko.

 

All thats left is Brad Boyes, Joel Ward, Eric Fehr, etc.

Each of them would out produce Beleskey though in terms of points.

So the plan would be offer each of them 5 million for 1 year for each of them ?

Then after their gone they still got the cap space to sign the 7 RFAs.

[halobob]

This was posted on the Ducks message board and I thought it was interesting enough to post here...roster turnover from our 1st 2 game 7 home losses:

Our starting lineup for Game 7 v. Detroit in 2013:

 

Ryan-Getzlaf-Perry

Beleskey-Bonino-Selanne

Winnik-Koivu-Cogliano

Etem-Steckel-Palmieri

 

Souray-Beauchemin

Fowler-Lovejoy

Sbisa-Allen

 

 

Our starting lineup for Game 7 v. LA in 2014:

 

DSP-Getzlaf-Perry

Maroon-Bonino-Palmieri

Cogliano-Koivu-Silfverberg

Winnik-Perreault-Selanne

 

Fowler-Lovejoy

Lindholm-Beauchemin

Allen-Vatanen

[nate]

Wow that is crazy.

 

Of all the guys gone, Koivu is easily the one I miss the most.

Edited July 2, 2015 by nate

[mrwicked]

What a massive upgrade on D over the last couple years.

Really we have such a hilariously rich talent pool of young kids it's just jaw dropping.

 

Now if only we could get a top line LW.

[Oz27]

Sbisa, Allen and Lovejoy on the same D...yikes. There are some things I prefer to block from my memory.

I'm getting a little itchy about adding some scoring depth. It's all gone a little quiet. But we seriously need to add some third/fourth line scoring power don't we?