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Forum: Armchair-GM13 hours ago
Thread: Another would they
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jded</b></div><div>I’ll join the ANA consensus here. Despite playing a position of need, Lilj is a bad fit and I’d have zero interest in him in ANA. The RD need is a big defensive minded top 2 capable RD to partner with Minty and/or Zellweger.</div></div>

The easiest stat to point to for what the Ducks need on the right side is PK TOI. Fowler logged 3:14, Gudas 3:00 and while a Duck Lyubushkin was at 2:56. The kids like Mintyukov and Zellweger can run the power play units just fine but we need guys to play big minutes on the kill. Frankly that's too much TOI for both Fowler and Gudas but they get thrown out because the other options aren't good enough (and the team is shorthanded way too much).

Basically getting a better version of Lyubushkin would be ideal. Heck if I had to choose between Boosh and Liljegren I'd take Boosh for another season without a second thought about it.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 25 at 11:30 a.m.
Thread: New Ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GMDannyB</b></div><div>I don’t disagree with really anything you said. That being said I still don’t see them as a playoff team for another few years so if that’s the case you still have the time to build ur team up through the draft with picks because in 3 years those players should be ready to help contribute</div></div>

Another thing that could be true in three years is Zegras is a 26 yr-old stud in his prime years scoring 100+ points. That would be a pretty nice piece to have on a playoff team. It's perfectly fine if Philly doesn't want to trade Tippett or Foerester because the Ducks are just as fine with keeping Zegras. All this "he's available" chatter is coming out of places that conveniently want to acquire him: Montreal, Philly, Detroit and so on. You've heard not one comment from Verbeek or the coaches or the Anaheim players that Zegras is a bad fit or available.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 25 at 10:27 a.m.
Thread: New Ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GMDannyB</b></div><div>You finishing at the bottom of the league for like the 5th year in a row doesn’t suggest ur coming out of a rebuild and really shows ur probably still in one for a few years but we can agree to disagree</div></div>

This is probably worth responding to also. From a guy that watches every Ducks game, win or lose, there were some VERY positive signs of improvement this season. Do I expect them in the playoffs next season? Of course not. But they shouldn't be bottom 5 in the league any more. You have to start building or you never stop re-building (see Buffalo).

Injuries wrecked this team with key guys being out all season. It was a rotation of Zegras out, McTavish out, Killorn out, Carlssson out, Mintyukov out, etc, etc. We saw for a large part of the season what the team looks like without Zegras on the ice. It was bad. The team looks a whole lot better when he was playing.

The other key area that is a coachable fix is penalties. The team had bad special teams, both the PK and the PP (missing all those guys listed above). On top of having a bad PK they took more penalties than any one else by a mile. The times the Ducks were short handed compared to their opponents was triple digits. Taking less penalties and having special teams in the 18-22 range of the league would be an easy 10 more wins IMO. The Flyers had 11 more wins than the Ducks did this season. Granted, "take less penalties" is easy to say and it's on the players to actually do it. But there's no reason the players can't do it, penalties are largely mental.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 16 at 3:53 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 12:31 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 12:12 p.m.
Thread: Redrafting Vegas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Matt1567</b></div><div>as per bleacher report "All pro players with two or fewer years of NHL experience and unsigned draft picks are protected, but don't count toward the team's final total.", and as of the expansion draft Theodore had played parts of 4 professional seasons, making him eligible to be selected, and since Anaheim chose not to protect him he was available for the taking. The Knight's couldn't have taken Manson, he was protected but as you said it was Mason and Vatanen the ducks were worried about, and Vatanen was left unprotected. Had there not been a side deal, Vatanen likely would've been a golden knight, but drafting the team 7 years later Theodore is the clear choice, and he was eligble to be selected due to his 4 partial professional seasons and being left unprotected, and I didn't make any assumptions that the protection lists would've been different had side deals not been agreed upon.</div></div>

Mason was not protected and Theodore was not available:

https://www.nhl.com/news/protected-list-for-vegas-golden-knights-nhl-expansion-draft-289972722

From that article...

All first- and second-year professionals are <strong>exempt </strong>from selection, as are unsigned draft choices.

The source you quoted calling these guys "protected but not counting towards the team's total" is really strange wording. Much easier to call them exempt, which is what they were. Theodore played 19 games in 15/16 and 34 games in 16/17 for the Ducks prior to the draft. The two seasons he played less than 10 games in the AHL didn't count as his contract slid in those.

An additional part of Murray's bungle here was giving Bieksa, who was washed as a player at that point, a full NMC. All players with such clauses required protecting and that meant the Ducks protected Fowler, Lindholm and Bieksa. Protecting Manson instead of Bieksa would have been an alternate way around trading Theodore but that was not an option.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 10:21 a.m.
Thread: Redrafting Vegas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Matt1567</b></div><div>While he was traded to Vegas, he was not protected for the expansion draft. My guess is that Anaheim chose to use him as a sweetener to convince Vegas to take Clayton Stoner's contract, and would've traded him had Vegas not agreed to take Stoner, that or they would've worked out a different way to protect him, potentially involving a different side deal with Vegas, but in theory Vegas could've selected Theodore, not Stoner, and broke their deal with Anaheim, screwing them over and ruining their GM's reputation on day one.

You could make the assumption that Theodore wouldn't have ended up in Vegas without a side deal, but I didn't and just selected the best player available, which was Theodore</div></div>

Theodore was exempt from the expansion draft. The Ducks traded him to Vegas so they would take Stoner as you said, but the two guys they were afraid to lose were Josh Manson and/or Sami Vatanen. Theodore was a side deal and your "rules" in the description was no side deals is all I'm saying. The Knights would have taken Manson in the draft.

This is one of the biggest bungles that Bob Murray ever did as a GM and is one of the primary reasons the Ducks are in the bottom feeder state they are in.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 13 at 3:32 p.m.
Thread: Zegras on a heater
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GeneralLandro</b></div><div>That’s hilarious because that same BS happens now because Cronin even said he holds Z to a different standard so that is just inaccurate</div></div>

“He can play to a higher standard than most guys can offensively, and that when he competes away from the puck, he just brings his game to a higher level, and I think it’s inspiring for his teammates to see,” Cronin said. “When he does things naturally well offensively, I think it gives guys confidence, and then when he puts the same investment in defensively, he becomes a role model.”

We can let Cronin speak for himself. All of this Anaheim wants to trade Zegras coming out of Montreal and other places where they incidentally would love to add Zegras is such nonsense.