The future

Created by: GiggywithGibby

Team: 2024-25 Anaheim Ducks

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 15, 2024

Published: Mar. 23, 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

It's becoming more and more obvious that Fowler can't be relied up on to cover for the young D-men, or at least the offensively gifted ones. His partnership with Luneau was bad, with LaCombe it was bad, and with Zellweger it's disastrous. He needs a defense first partner or we need to find a way to ship him off somewhere, either way he needs reduced ice time and responsibility.

Lindstrom actually working in our system might make Helleson redundant, we can hang onto him for another year but at this point I would move him as part of a deal to improve the roster elsewhere. A team short on RHD prospects might bite for an improvement at bottom 4 forward. In this ACGM I targeted Carlo from Boston instead.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Gauthier, Cutter		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Leason, Brett	3	$1,200,000
Lindström, Gustav	3	$1,200,000
Vaakanainen, Urho	3	$1,200,000
Jones, Max	3	$1,200,000
Lundeström, Isac	4	$2,300,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Reinhart, Sam		7	$9,500,000

Trades

ANA

2024 1st round pick (WSH)

WSH

2024 1st round pick (EDM)
2024 2nd round pick (ANA)

Additional Details:

Trade up to pick Michael Brandsegg-Nygard.

ANA

Carlo, Brandon

Additional Details:

Carlo is going to be forever stuck behind McAvoy in Boston, and Bostons curious move to pick up Peeke, a player that was compared to Carlo often, is curious to say the least. If Peeke works in Bostons system well enough to play 2nd pair, this gives Boston a boost to their prospect system with a tough nosed RHD prospects and LaCombe, a good all around defenseman who can play either side, plus their second round pick back. Opens up some more salary to go chasing a 1C with.

For Boston fans point out that Hronek got 17 OA and a 2nd, remember the kind of players you find at 17 in the draft. Uhro Vaakainen was 18OA, Zboril was 13OA, DeBruak 14OA, and Senshyn 15OA. LaCombe was a top 10 prospect in the Ducks loaded system before making the jump to the NHL, he's a solid young player developing a great 2 way game, plus a potentially NHL ready bottom 4 RHD and a 2nd.

BOS

Helleson, Drew
LaCombe, Jackson [RFA Rights]
2024 2nd round pick (BOS)

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

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,500,000	$74,469,167	$0	$6,550,000	$13,030,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gauthier, Cutter $950,000$950,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Carlsson, Leo $950,000$950,000 ($3,250,000$3M) C RFA - 2	Reinhart, Sam $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW UFA
Zegras, Trevor $5,750,000$5,750,000 C, LW RFA - 2	McTavish, Mason $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) C, LW RFA - 1	Terry, Troy $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW UFA - 6
Vatrano, Frank $3,650,000$3,650,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Strome, Ryan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C UFA - 3	Killorn, Alex $6,250,000$6,250,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 3
Jones, Max $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, RW RFA	Lundeström, Isac $2,300,000$2,300,000 C, LW RFA	Leason, Brett $1,200,000$1,200,000 RW RFA
Johnston, Ross $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW UFA - 2		McGinn, Brock $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Mintyukov, Pavel $918,333$918,333 ($800,000$800K) LD RFA - 2	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000$4,100,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Gibson, John $6,400,000$6,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Zellweger, Olen $844,167$844,167 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
Fowler, Cam $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Lindström, Gustav $1,200,000$1,200,000 RD RFA
Vaakanainen, Urho $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD/RD RFA

Top Comments

Mar. 23 at 8:13 a.m.

lowblocksniper

LBS

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If I'm Boston, I don't move Carlo unless the team starts sucking out of nowhere. He's got 3 more years at an extremely reasonable price.

Even if Peeke performs out of his mind, Carlo is only 1yr older so it's not like you extend a cup window by swapping them and it would be a cap difference of only 1.5mil

Mar. 23 at 8:26 a.m.

Celtics21

Joined: May 2023

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Why does Boston trade him? He complements McAvoy perfectly and plays a ton of minutes every night. He’s signed to a reasonable contract and fits the timeline of their two best players.

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Mar. 23 at 8:34 a.m.

GiggywithGibby

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Quoting: lowblocksniper

It's not a matter of swapping Carlo for Peeke, both are already on the roster, Bostons spending 16.35 million on the right side of the defense currently, Swayman needs a new deal, and you need money to go chase a top 6 C like Lindholm this summer to keep the window open. Not enough sizeable contracts are coming off the roster.

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Mar. 23 at 8:49 a.m.

GeneralLandro

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Edited Mar. 23 at 9:11 a.m.

Trading up for MBN, SIGN! ME! UP! But you already know that cheers

I don’t think Boston parts with Carlo

I feel like Reinhart might cost us more that that honestly due to taxes. He could get like $8,000,000 from Florida and make essentially the same amount

Killorn Carlsson Reinhart
Vatrano McTavish Terry
Gauthier Zegras Strome
Jones Lundeström Leason

The forward unit I would run. Terry and Strome could switch at any point. I like the size and checking ability of Jones and Leason on Lundy’s wings a lot

The defense is real hard to fully figure out imo

Mar. 23 at 8:57 a.m.

lowblocksniper

LBS

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 1,518

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I mean, Ullmark is almost 100% percent leaving and outside of Swayman who if everything goes well for Boston will sign somewhere around 7-8mil range long term.

After that they have 17ish mil to sign a center and round out the top 4 on LD.

Boston is lucky because the UFA center having the best season right now is Monahan and with his injury history there is a decent chance he signs for a fair price (5-7mil max) making it harder for everyone else to break the bank. (This is just a guess, some teams might not care and start throwing crazy money around)

Edit: sorry forgot to quote\reply to you

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