Unpopular Opinion

Created by: LosPatos

Team: 2021-22 Anaheim Ducks

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 14, 2021

Published: Oct. 14, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Based on last nights performance, here’s what I’m thinking:

- Young players really played well. Their development has been great and they all seem very comfortable out there.

- Lindholm / Drysdale pairing is great and worked very nice last night

- Groulx played well for his first NHL game but should not be stuck with Grant and Deslauriers.

- Henrique looks very comfortable on the wing with Zegras and Rakell

- Comtois and Rakell should switch positions, for Zegras and Comtois seem to be more comfortable together.

- McTavish deserves a full time roster spot over Grant, Steel, and Deslauriers

- Pateryn was a great leader and stepped in when things got rough.

Conclusion:

If Gibson can continue to play like this and our offense can continue to improve, we could be a sleeper playoff team with our weak division.

Buyouts

Corey Perry: $2,000,000
Simon Despres: $0

Buried

Sonny Milano: $575,000 ($1,700,000)
Jacob Larsson: $75,000 ($1,200,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$51,350,417	$0	$3,332,500	$30,149,583

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Henrique, Adam $1,456,250$1,456,250 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 3	Zegras, Trevor $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C, LW RFA - 2	Comtois, Maxime $2,037,500$2,037,500 LW RFA - 2
Rakell, Rickard $2,463,139$2,463,139 RW, LW UFA - 1	Getzlaf, Ryan $3,000,000$3,000,000 ($1,500,000$2M) C NMC UFA - 1	Terry, Troy $1,450,000$1,450,000 RW UFA - 2
McTavish, Mason $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 4	Lundeström, Isac $874,125$874,125 C, LW RFA - 1	Silfverberg, Jakob $5,250,000$5,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Deslauriers, Nicolas $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Groulx, Benoit-Olivier $822,500$822,500 ($132,500$132K) C RFA - 2	Jones, Max $1,295,000$1,295,000 LW, RW RFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindholm, Hampus $2,602,778$2,602,778 LD UFA - 1	Drysdale, Jamie $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 2	Gibson, John $6,400,000$6,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 6
Fowler, Cam $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 5	Manson, Josh $2,050,000$2,050,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Stolarz, Anthony $950,000$950,000 G UFA - 2
Pateryn, Greg $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1	Shattenkirk, Kevin $3,900,000$3,900,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Steel, Sam $874,125$874,125 C, LW RFA - 1		Kesler, Ryan $6,875,000$6,875,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Grant, Derek $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, C UFA - 2
Mahura, Josh $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Top Comments

Oct. 14, 2021 at 9:58 p.m.

tsyls

Joined: Jun. 2019

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If Gibson can keep up that level of play, he’ll win the Vezina and get you guys into the playoffs. He was great. Also man ducks young players are really good. Drysdale looked great, same with Zegras and mctavish impressed me.

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Oct. 14, 2021 at 10:10 p.m.

LosPatos

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Quoting: tsyls

Love the Jets man, and always love playing against them. But man last night I couldn’t help but hate them. Hitting Gibson twice when they know he’s our rock, wasn't cool. Dubois got a bit too rough with Gibby. Besides that I thought it was a great game.

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Oct. 14, 2021 at 10:21 p.m.

tsyls

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Quoting: AntreDiAnaheim

I thought the Dubois play was right on the line, probably a bit too close though. But the others ones I wasn’t a fan of, I hate when people hit goalies, happens a lot with hellebuyck.

Jets are fun to watch, same with ducks so games are always great with them.

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Oct. 14, 2021 at 10:28 p.m.

Jah1722

Joined: Jan. 2018

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Popular opinion: fire Eakins. Unless something was up with Terry playing him ~8 min last night is absolutely pathetic coaching. I don’t mind spreading out the TOI among the forwards like he did but Terry shouldn’t be the lowest. And grant shouldn’t be be the top.

This team is still poor but they should at least be a fun team based off of last night.

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Oct. 14, 2021 at 10:43 p.m.

MisstheWhalers