Hughes MO Anahiem side

Created by: swinny

Team: 2024-25 Anaheim Ducks

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 3, 2024

Published: Mar. 3, 2024

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

Lots of space to fill in the final forward positions.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Barron, Justin	2	$1,280,000
LaCombe, Jackson	2	$1,750,000
Lundeström, Isac	2	$1,800,000
Jones, Max	2	$1,400,000
Vaakanainen, Urho	2	$1,250,000

Trades

ANA

Barron, Justin [RFA Rights]
Heineman, Emil
Kidney, Riley
2024 1st round pick (WPG)

Additional Details:

What the Ducks get:

Barron is a big body who has a transition game that is still developing. Fits in nicely as the #6 for now. Absolutely top 6 potential. He and Zelleweger (not that sold on Helleson), Mintyukov and Lecombe look to form ab excellent top 4 long term for the Ducks.

Heineman: maybe a little lighter than a typical Verbeek target, but definitely has the ability to be a top 6 winger. Scoring at a PPG rate with Laval, and got a cup of coffee. Ducks lack young wingers that can step in. Heineman can do that I think.

Kidney: if moving a C, getting a developing one back makes sense. Kidney has game. Tracking to be a 200 foot top 6 player.

WPG 1st: maybe later than some may want, buy it is a first rounder. The pick looking to be in the bottom 10 of the 1st round, the quality of kids offsets that.

MTL

Zegras, Trevor

Additional Details:

For 2 years, Hughes has moved an acquired 1st for a C. I think he does it again. Plenty of quality assets to move.

Suzuki amd Zegras a 1A-1B I think is a place worth going

Buyouts

Simon Despres: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$87,700,000	$55,446,667	$0	$6,550,000	$32,253,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Vatrano, Frank $3,650,000$3,650,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Carlsson, Leo $950,000$950,000 ($3,250,000$3M) C RFA - 2	Terry, Troy $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW UFA - 6
Killorn, Alex $6,250,000$6,250,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 3	McTavish, Mason $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) C, LW RFA - 1	Strome, Ryan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C UFA - 3
Heineman, Emil $897,500$897,500 LW, RW RFA - 1
McGinn, Brock $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Lundeström, Isac $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, LW RFA	Jones, Max $1,400,000$1,400,000 LW, RW RFA
Johnston, Ross $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
LaCombe, Jackson $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD/RD RFA	Fowler, Cam $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Gibson, John $6,400,000$6,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Mintyukov, Pavel $918,333$918,333 ($800,000$800K) LD RFA - 2	Gudas, Radko $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Dostal, Lukas $812,500$812,500 G RFA - 1
Zellweger, Olen $844,167$844,167 LD RFA - 2	Barron, Justin $1,280,000$1,280,000 RD RFA
Vaakanainen, Urho $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD/RD RFA

Top Comments

Mar. 3 at 6:39 p.m.

Habs_22_14_20

Rebuilding

Joined: Feb. 2024

Posts: 383

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Realistically :

Justin Barron right now is an offensive bottom pairing dman who needs to work on puck retrieval & being more physical in boards battles. Definitely as the tools to be a top 4 defenseman, just need to put it all together. Still young, only 22 yo.

Emil Heineman is a big kid who’s got a great release and can lay the body. Bottom six potential, if he reaches it, he could be a 3rd liner.

Riley Kidney was a good playmaker in Junior, I always doubted his game wouldn’t translate well to the pros. I don’t think he has any potential to make it and his value is very low

A late 1st holds less value than people suggest

So all the assets above don’t come close to land a young top 6 players with 2 years left on a good contract while being RFA after his current deal

Mar. 3 at 6:59 p.m.

Jded

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 2,732

Likes: 1,764

Guys some version of this trade has been made a million times. The Ducks pass easily, and I’m betting every dollar I have that’ll be a consensus from the ANA pov.

Zegras isn’t on the block, Lebrun made that abundantly clear

If you want our unavailable 22yo stud, we will demand a stud in return, not spare parts. Slaf, Rein, or the ‘24 MTL first are a necessity, or this is an incredibly easy decline. Not worth it to MTL? Awesome, we’re stoked to keep Zegras. We don’t post 20 ACGMs/day proposing Caufield for a bunch of mid tier prospects and late 1sts, neither should you

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