2 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

"Lose For Hughes!"

"Bad team man, we got a bad F'ing team!"

Another one i've heard is "Slack for Jack" Hughes.

Interesting enough Hughes will become another American taken 1st overall in the draft so soon after Auston Matthews went 1st overall.

Several Olympics from now we may see Matthews & Hughes winning the gold medal for Team USA vs Canada & McDavid + an old Crosby.

I agree about the Samueli's. I wouldn't be surprised if they are best friends with the owners of the Oakland Athletics & Murray playing golf with Beane.

Samueli's don't care about winning a cup, to them its all about sustaining a team that makes the playoffs with as little of spending as possible & expanding the Ducks & NHL brand in California. When the time comes they'll eventually give Murray the door to promote Madden(Best scouting director in the NHL) to GM.
At some point they gotta promote Madden or he'll take a job elsewhere.

1 hour ago, UndertheHalo said:

We’re lucky that the division is garbage.  I have to believe at some point SJ takes off.   For now the Ducks remain in the thick of it.  It’s good that Murray will get a bunch of excuses to not do shit and be a miserable failure of a GM again this season.  Pretty wild that Carlyle hasn’t been shit canned yet.  

The coach that Carlyle defeated twice (McLellan in 09 playoffs & 2017 playoffs) got fired by the Oilers.

Mathis threw out 36% of runners last season. Since 2012 he's been one of the best at throwing runners out, after leaving the Angels he became an Ace at throwing people out. He massively improved his ability to throw runners out after leaving the Angels.

Trout got CS by Mathis in 2018.

They should just change to the Yankees AAA team uniforms since it'd make sense anyways.

Bourjos coming off the worst season in his career .205/.239/.364/.603

He will fit right in with Calhoun. Can they bring back Willits too ? an all no hit OF of Willits/PBJ/Calhoun

'Lose for Hughes' becoming a thing in LA ? Kings have a big lead on that over the Ducks who don't have the ballz to Tank.

With Fowler out for months, they need to call up Mahura & see what he can do on the PP.
Or should they just 'Lose for Hughes' til Carlyle is Fired ?

I feel like the Ducks should lose so that Carlyle is fired & they hire Q. Like keep losing til he's fired.

I have respected Q as 1 of the best coaches in the NHL for a while, he'd look better if the Hawks core wasn't tired of winning after its 3 Cups it won with that core.

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

So do you guys go after Q?  

 

YES. Best available coach atm. Thank goodness for the Blackhawks.

On 11/1/2018 at 6:19 PM, UndertheHalo said:

I don’t mean to act like he’s not smart about it.  It is smart to get max value out of players that other teams may over look.  It’s necessary even to be able to do that. 

 My issue is that he sets guys like that up to be relied on.  For a team that was in championship mode.  That sucks.  Anyway, Aberg is a high skill guy that’s been given up on.  Hopefully he’s found a good one in him. 

The more i've thought about it i think the Owners have imposed things on Murray, like they never wanted the Ducks to go all in & never have just 1 or 2 seasons spending to the cap while the core was still in their prime. Instead i think the Owners want to boost the Ducks brand & focus on barely making the playoffs over a sustained period due to drafting very well, finding the abergs on the cheap which is what Murray is good at. He's terrible at assessing coaches & what system the team needs to play.

It could also be that Murray wants sustained competitive teams that never go all in cause all the Samueli's might be asking for is a playoff berth & he likes his job security of doing just that. Unless Artie Moreno buys the Ducks i don't see much changing. If Moreno did buy the Ducks i think he'd give Murray the green light to spend but also keep away from the Pujol's of the NHL.

On 10/31/2018 at 10:03 AM, UndertheHalo said:

Lol.  Bargain bin bob won’t ever get rid of a guy like Aberg.  This is one of the few times he’s dug up a guy that’s actually scoring.  We’ll see if it lasts. 

Carlyle sucks and needs to go, but this is more then just him.  This is a problem with the players as well. 

Bargin Bin Bob Laden is like a combination of Billy 'dumpster dive' Beane & Bill Stoneman.

If there is a dumpster in sports, Bob Murray & Billy Beane are in it sorting thru all the turds.

Pontus is on fire. Keep him & sell him at the deadline.

So Pontus pilate buys himself a few more games. We need Kase back.

3 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Add Ritchie at $1.5 million.  And you can come close to meeting Nylanders asking price.  Probably Stone's too.

I'd take Nylander, isn't he a better skater than Stone ? Either team is a fit because they have decent trade history with the Ducks.

2 hours ago, Tank said:

must be a SoCal thing this year...

Watch the next time Kings & Ducks play there is 0 shots on goal from both sides & the game is decided in a shootout lol

Quick & Gibson get so bored they start tweeting to each other.

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

Stone, Panarin, Nylander.  One of those would help.  Panarin is probably out of our price range.  But Stone and Nylander.  Stone would look quite good on the Kesler line.  Nylander would mean one of our centers moves to wing, my guess would be Rico (Nylander/Rico/Kase).  Montour and Silfverberg may be too rich for our long term goals.  And Ritchie could be a good cheap 3 year option for some team.  

The only internal good news is Eaves and Kase are both on this road trip.  

You can never have too many centers as we saw what happened last year, i'd go for Nylander & move Rico to the wing since he can't seem to win a faceoff this year.

Nylander owns a career 49.5% FO win% with last year being at 51.4%.

They need to start having Mahura learn to play on the right side asap. Imagine some day having Mahura play on the right of Lindholm, 2 goal scoring D-men. No surprise Mahura is out performing Larsson in AHL.

Just like how he gets shots thru traffic, Lindholm gets a empty netter thru the islanders players off the faceoff. Nicest empty net goal i've seen in a while.

7 points 2 goals 5 assists on the year so far. The way he ended last season, i've had a good feeling about this season in terms of his offensive production.

The positives from last nights disaster: Lindholm had 2 points & was a +1 in a game they lost 5-2.

4 points in 5 games, his best start ever ! Could this be the year he finally puts it all together ?

Comtois got another point. Steel & Lundestrom got their 1st NHL career points both assists.

46 minutes ago, Lou said:

 

 

& to think that all those years ago they looked like in April they were in for a very long season like all the previous terrible ones, then they go on frickin tear ripping every team apart. 4'11 Eckstein hitting back to back game GS's.

On 10/12/2018 at 9:40 AM, NJHalo said:

It's Mickey Hatcher time in Chicago

Next season the Cubs hitters BB% rate drops by 25%......GIDP rate climbs 25%

So if Nicole Ritchie showed up in Ice Skates would Carlyle play her thinking its Ritchie after he completed his 'offseason makeover' into Nicole Ritchie ?

5 hours ago, gotbeer said:

NHL Rumors: Maple Leafs And Nylander With A Little Ducks And Hurricanes

 

If Mahura were ready & could play the right side with Lindholm

35 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

Then Mathis will hire Scioscia as bench coach.

and fills out the rest of the coaching staff with Robb Quinlan, GMJr. & Dustin Moseley
Robb Quinlan will teach the players to use his batting stance !

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

I'd be willing to name Pujols manager if it meant he retired, forfeited the remaining $90M, and signed a new deal.

The new deal: 90 years 90 million(1 mil per year) ! Contract ends early if hes dead !