[Evans] Les Ducks d’Anaheim sont la seule équipe de la LNH à n’avoir signé aucun joueur en agence libre aujourd’hui (moins les agents libres). Après l’excitation suscitée par le nouveau logo et un repêchage solide la semaine dernière, le silence de ce matin est assourdissant. Oui, les contrats sont scandaleux. Mais rien ?
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wildwing8
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“Yes the contracts are outrageous.” But you should take an outrageous contract anyways damn it! Do it for the “excitement”!
This will be an after thought when we extend Mac-T, Leo, Z, Cutter, Pavel, Zelly, Dostal.
Fuck the free agents. We got home grown talent
Pinto?
« Yes, many of the contracts are overpayments and will handicap the teams in the coming years but they should really be doing that too. Think of all the articles I can’t write anymore! »
Technically, didn’t we sign leason and urho lol
The Ducks have almost never been big players in free agency
Yeah, I’d rather do nothing than massively overpay but I agree with this guy. We can’t do literally nothing, but I do expect we won’t be quiet all day. It just won’t be big and flashy and that’s ok. We let a lot of bottom six types go, so we will at the very least be addressing that.
We will obtain our players through trade most likely as we still have assets and draft picks. We are coming out of a rebuild and looking at what chicago did today I feel like they made a mistake.
it’s like a personal insult if the team doesn’t do something for some writers to write about
We just need short term stuff to hit cap floor. Don’t want to get tied down to bad contracts for too long. No point in going big this year when we aren’t even a playoff team
I mean it is a little troubling that the offseason wish list was:
1) top 6 right handed forward
2) top 4 right handed defenseman
3) reworked bottom six forward group
And outside releasing a couple of the bottoms six forwards we had, we apparently won’t be addressing any of the three via free agency. Even reworking the bottom six is pretty slim pickings at this point. There aren’t many options available who would be notable upgrades from somebody like Jones who we let walk.
Can all of these be addressed via trade instead? Of course – and its not worth panicking when there is still a long time between now and the start of the season. Just doesn’t feel good to have so many holes in the lineup with most of the FA class accounted for and still needing to spend 9m just to hit the cap floor.
We should done what the Lakers did when the cap jumped and sign the equivalent of Deng and Mozgov.
I know everyone is trying to spin this situation as an absolutely positive situation with reasons such as not wanting to overspend on UFAs or saving money for upcoming RFAs which are valid, but Anaheim still needs to spend money. Anaheim still needs to reach the cap floor, and they’re is still below the cap floor by $9 million!
Maybe he’s trading for a few players with higher cap hits currently. Must be some plan to get to cap floor id imagine.
This has to mean we got some trades coming in. Hold on to your…. whatever Ducks have.
Theres gotta be trade talk for something big perhaps. Laine, Kent Johnson and David Jiricek.
Let’s be real, verbeek isn’t going to do nothing this off season. So everyone relax. It’s his job to make the team better and if he does nothing he’s most likely fired, so in no way is he gonna do that
i wouldn’t be surprised if a trade is in works for laine. a couple weeks ago a report came out that the jackets were looking to move him
he’d fit the top 6 right handed forward wishlist verbeek had and would push us much closer to the cap floor. him and a right handed d with a 3-4 mil contract
All of this will be a moot point when we draft #1OA in 2025 and 2026 and build our dynasty of « generational » talents. Anyway, the team is bad and we’ll be bad next season. live and let live baby.
« the contracts are outrageous, but nothing » get the fuck outta here guy 🤣
The challenge is improving the team without blowing the future. That means being very careful about long term contracts. The fact is we can’t afford to be foolish with giving out term if we want to build a long term contender.
Every great team struggles sooner or later with cap issues. The sooner that happens (I.e. the more of a rush wannabe contenders are to become contenders), the shorter the window to win it all.
Yes it hasn’t even been a day but Clippers having a better Free agency so far not what I had on my bingo card
Heavy overpay for a couple single year contracts in order to hit the floor incoming.