Being competitive again

Created by: JTrades

Team: 2023-24 Anaheim Ducks

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 5, 2023

Published: Jan. 5, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

Step 1, trade away expiring contracts and picks.
Step 2, fire Eakins and hire a new coach. I'd go with Andrew Brunette unless someone else gets fired.
Step 3, sign veterans or player you can flip. Keep the term under 4 years.
Step 4, Trade Gibson. It's time. He looks so miserable and isn't playing like the goalie that he once was.
Step 5, trade away players on expiring deals. Silverberg and Henrique. If possible, also Strome and Fowler
I think they are 3 years away from competing for the playoffs.

I'm sure at least some of my trades are way off, just some examples

Thoughts?

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Comtois, Maxime	1	$2,000,000
Zegras, Trevor	8	$8,000,000
Terry, Troy	8	$8,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Archibald, Josh	2	$2,000,000
Drouin, Jonathan	1	$1,000,000
Dumoulin, Brian	3	$3,000,000
Gudas, Radko	2	$3,000,000
Hinostroza, Vinnie	2	$1,800,000
Hill, Adin	3	$3,500,000
Fucale, Zachary	2	$1,500,000
Määttä, Olli	3	$3,000,000

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Shattenkirk, Kevin	1	$775,000
Kulikov, Dmitry	1	$775,000
Klingburg, John	1	$7,000,000

Trades

ANA

Puljujärvi, Jesse [RFA Rights]
2023 2nd round pick (EDM)
2023 3rd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Klingburg, John

ANA

2023 2nd round pick (DAL)

DAL

Shattenkirk, Kevin

ANA

2023 3rd round pick (PHI)

CAR

Kulikov, Dmitry

ANA

Zaitsev, Nikita
2023 2nd round pick (OTT)
2024 2nd round pick (WSH)

OTT

Gibson, John

Buyouts

Simon Despres: $0

DRAFT YEAR	ROUND 1	ROUND 2	ROUND 3	ROUND 4	ROUND 5	ROUND 6	ROUND 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$82,500,000	$74,751,667	$0	$2,500,000	$7,748,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Henrique, Adam $5,825,000$5,825,000 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 1	Zegras, Trevor $8,000,000$8,000,000 C, LW RFA	Terry, Troy $8,000,000$8,000,000 RW RFA
Comtois, Maxime $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW RFA	Strome, Ryan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, RW UFA - 4	Silfverberg, Jakob $5,250,000$5,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Drouin, Jonathan $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW UFA	McTavish, Mason $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) C, LW RFA - 2	Vatrano, Frank $3,650,000$3,650,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Archibald, Josh $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA	Carrick, Sam $850,000$850,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,800,000$1,800,000 RW, LW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fowler, Cam $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Gudas, Radko $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA	Hill, Adin $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA
Määttä, Olli $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 2	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Fucale, Zachary $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA
Dumoulin, Brian $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA	Vaakanainen, Urho $850,000$850,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
White, Colton $762,500$762,500 LD UFA - 1	Lundeström, Isac $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, LW RFA - 1
Leason, Brett $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 1	Jones, Max $1,295,000$1,295,000 LW, RW RFA - 1

Top Comments

Jan. 5 at 10:55 a.m.

CD282

Joined: Mar. 2017

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I don't think Edmonton is interested in Klingberg.

Jan. 5 at 10:55 a.m.

sens65

Joined: Mar. 2018

Posts: 4,847

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I'm not sure why you think Ottawa wants to, or has the capability to pay you to take on the far worse contract for a position that we don't need help with.

Jan. 5 at 11:28 a.m.

GeneralLandro

Fowler 4 Norris

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 9,550

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If Gibson is dealt, you’d imagine it would be for Dostal to take over

Jan. 5 at 12:54 p.m.

Caniac2000

Joined: May 2018

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I'm going to ignore the fire and carnage going on around it and just say that a 3rd for Kulikov works for the Canes

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Jan. 5 at 1:11 p.m.

GiggywithGibby

Future Ducks legend

Joined: Jun. 2022

Posts: 5,195

Likes: 3,043

Gibson LITERALLY had a shutout last night, I was there, I saw it happen in person. Pair that with the stellar game vs Vegas and he is starting to look like his old self again. Yeah, vs Philly was bad, but you are not going to have a great game every night, that's why we have tandems.

That D core is more defensively focused, but is old, slow, and lumbering, they are going to get beat as often as the current D core does.

Only one of the Forwards I would consider is Drouin as a PTO type player, see if getting away from the francophone media takes the pressure off and lets him start to enjoy the game again. You left Lundestrom and Jones on IR and hired two guys we don't need.

This team is genuinely worse than the one we are fielding right now.

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