The Official 2018-2019 Anaheim Ducks Thread

[gotbeer]

Murray.  You are screwing things up.  You are supposed to lose.  Give the defending SC champions respect.  Oh maybe the Caps can stage a comeback. 

Then again, Perry and Silfverberg scores goals.  Hopefully someone bites.  And Miller.  Good showing might get a team deep in the playoff run interest.  He deserves another run in the SC playoffs.

Trade Silfverberg.

[gotbeer]

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Scouting the Anaheim Ducks and Washington Capitals

Helene Elliott: Scouts listed to attend yesterday’s Ducks-Capitals game include St. Louis Blues (2), Arizona Coyotes (2), Vegas Golden Knights (2), Florida Panthers (2), Montreal Canadiens (2), New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames, Tampa Bay Lightning, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars and the San Jose Sharks.

 

[gotbeer]

While the Kings shed payroll and continue to lose for Hughes and play crappo for Kakko.  The Ducks...

[deepdrive]

I'll say it again. If this team finishes 18-22 in the standings (9-13 in the draft order), Murray should be fired as soon as the right GM is available. 

[UndertheHalo]

Eaves got placed on waivers.  

Edited February 19, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, UndertheHalo said:

Eaves got placed on waivers.  

Ducks place Patrick Eaves on waivers in effort to increase roster flexibility

As long as that roster flexibility isn't giving Silfverberg a stupid contract.  

[gotbeer]

BTW.  Comtois was CHL player of the week.  He only had 2 hat tricks, and 16 points.  In 4 games.  

[gotbeer]

And going back to Eaves.  I wonder if a playoff team would take a chance on him?  This year would be negligible to the cap.  Next year is at $3.25 million.   If a team has cap space, which a lot of the contenders have, might not be a bad pickup.  When he's healthy, he's definitely worth the price.  Question is can he be healthy, and is it worth the extra insurance to have a scorer?

[gotbeer]

Hmm.  So like the last what, 4 or 5 years.  We would have been better off with no coach than with fatty and fatty 2.  

Trade Silfverberg.  

[UndertheHalo]

I think at this point any GM that wastes money on Patrick Eaves is absolutely out of his mind. 

[UndertheHalo]

and Eaves isn’t a young player.  I suspect he’s probably done in the league. 

[gotbeer]

And I have one foot inside the fire Murray camp.  And BTW.  If the reported stupid AAV of $6 million is true.  That would mean we have $646k in cap space next season.  That is a K as in thousand.  So this mediocre team is what we get next season also.  Meanwhile, other teams will be getting small upgrades in Stone, Duchene, Panarin, Karlsson, Hughes, Kakka, etc.

https://mynhltraderumors.com/nhl-rumors-scouting-dal-nsh-panarin-silfverberg-and-puljujarvi/2019/02/20/

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Tagging rule in the way of a Silfverberg extension?

TSN: It doesn’t appear that the Anaheim Ducks are going to be trading Jakob Silfverbergahead of the deadline. There have been working on a contract extension, but the tagging rules may be holding up the deal.

 

“It’s not quite finished yet, it’s more of a cap-management issue because they have tagging issues. They’ve had over 100 roster moves this season alone which eats up tagging space to some degree. They are over the cap, so you’d have to subtract that from your tagging space.

You’ve got Patrick Eaves on waivers. If he gets claimed, then that might free things up a little bit for the Anaheim Ducks.

Otherwise, they’re likely  going to have to wait to get it official on March 1, when every team, gets a 10 per cent bump in the tagging space.”

 

[gotbeer]

Just because I'm bored.  Caps sent down Smith Pelly.  It's rumored that it was done to save cap space, so that they can make a trade.  Presumably with the Kings.

So what if Eaves was sent down to make cap space to make a much bigger trade?  Eaves $3.15 million.  Panarin $6 million.  Stone $7.35 million.  

As I said, I'm bored.  And visions of lollipops are dancing in my head.

[Thomas]

7 hours ago, gotbeer said:

If the reported stupid AAV of $6 million is true. 

Like...in US currency?!?!

[UndertheHalo]

It would be incredible if silfverberg a guy who’s not once put up a 50 point season gets 6 million aav.  And lol watch them dump Sprong. 

Edited February 21, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[UndertheHalo]

Jesus Christ apparently confirmed 5 years north of 5 million aav.  Won’t be made public until after March 1st.  Murray is wild. 

[gotbeer]

8 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Jesus Christ apparently confirmed 5 years north of 5 million aav.  Won’t be made public until after March 1st.  Murray is wild. 

Hopefully now they trade him for a 1st rounder now that he's signed long term.

[UndertheHalo]

10 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Hopefully now they trade him for a 1st rounder now that he's signed long term.

Pretty restrictive limited trade provision being reported.  He has a list of specific teams he can be traded to.  I believe the number is 10. 

Edited February 21, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[gotbeer]

At $5.5 AAV.  That means we have $2.2 million to spend in the offseason.  We only have 17 players.  

Fire Murray.  Trade Silfverberg.

[UndertheHalo]

This is why I said it doesn’t matter about getting rid of Carlyle.  They should be in full tank mode.  They should be trading guys.  This is a joke.  

Edited February 21, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[gotbeer]

F*ck.  We just gave a 5 year $5.25 million (now being reported) AAV contract to a player that has never scored 50 points a season.  And is more of a 40 point scorer.  Who will be 29 when the contract starts, 33 when it ends.  And people wonder why we don't score goals.  

Good job in getting younger and faster Murray.

Fire Murray, Trade Silfverberg.

[UndertheHalo]

On 2/6/2019 at 12:02 PM, UndertheHalo said:

I have a terrible feeling that he’s still going to try and re sign him.  It’s not that keeping Silfverberg is bad.  It’s that doing so represents Bob Murray not grasping the situation the Ducks are in. 

RIP

[gotbeer]

Hope everything is ok.  But man, not a great time to have this happen.  It's pucker time right now, and we need to make moves.

 

[deepdrive]

Way to go Bob. Show up at game time and put your coach face on. Lol.

[Pujols4MVP]

Maybe Murray is tending to his son named Cam Fowler about a trade their about to make sending him to Montreal/Detroit/STL/Colorado.

Thats the teams highest paid Dman locked up long term in a 8 year deal. Moving him clears a ton of cap & injury risk.

Then you have Henrique who's overpaid but if you go full tank you don't need Henrique for next year as Getzlaf/Cozens(Or Dach/Turcotte)/Steel/Rowney/Kesler is enough

Shore is making 2.3 million this year & next year so they could dump him on some team for a 2nd rounder.