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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 8, 2022 at 4:49 p.m.
Thread: Upgrades
We saw Zegras on the Wing, and he's far better at C. Yes, he's not good at face-offs (at the moment) but this is the case for a lot of young Centers and you don't just move them to Wing permanently because of that. And yes, Zegras isn't the tallest / heaviest but I fail to see why that should exclude him from Center duties. Hughes, McDavid, MacKinnon, Aho, Larkin, Point; all of these aren't the tallest and/or strongest and yet they're among the best Cs in the game. Don't agree on that one. (<strong>If</strong> the Ducks got lucky and drafted Bedard, I do think this scenario gets more likely though. But not for the reasons mentioned above and I'm confident that they would try McTavish on Bedard's Wing first.)

Trades look good to me.

Comtois deal looks like a bit much, haven't been to impressed with him. But with the cap hopefully going up regularly in the coming years, I'd be fine with that contract.
Forum: NHLAug. 31, 2022 at 4:25 a.m.
Thread: Prospect Discussion Thread #3
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NHLfan10506</b></div><div>Some puzzling head-to-heads

Zachary Jones (#100) over Scott Morrow (#153) - Morrow's 1st year was better than both Jones' years at UMass-Amherst
Olen Zellweger (#51) over Lukas Cormier (#69) - Anyone who watched WJC would see this, unless you just looked at point totals
Calen Addison (#60) over Brock Faber (#74)
Jiri Kulich (#89) over Alex Turcotte (#108)
William Dufour (#77) over Matthew Coronato (#107)
Nathan Gaucher (#89) over Aatu Raty (#126)
Connor Zary (#93) over Thomas Bordeleau (#111)

Some questionable omissions

Arseni Gritsyuk
Bobby Brink
Corson Ceulemans
Ian Moore
Jackson Blake
Sean Farrell
Vincent Iorio</div></div>

Zellweger &gt; Cormier isn't something I'd call questionable. Zellweger put up a record breaking season in the WHL. I also watched every Canadian WJC game and while Cormier was the better all-round player, Zellweger wasn't far off while also being 1.5 years younger. And since this is based off projection, it's fair to put Zellweger over Cormier because of certain indicators like the mentioned WHL season and this impressive WJC performance at just 18 years old. He's by no means a perfect player and still has to improve areas of his game in the future but even when taking off the homer glasses, I'd take Zellweger's projected future over Cormier's (aside from this Cormier reamins one of my favorite prospects in general, not trying to discredit him here).
Forum: Mock-DraftAug. 27, 2022 at 3:17 p.m.
Thread: 2023 Mock Draft - Two Rounds - Part One
While I've liked the Benson footage that I've seen, I can't see Verbeek taking Benson. Verbeek has clearly said he wants to build a big and physical but at the same time highly-skilled team. The selections he / his team have made in his first draft further underline this (4x 6'2", 6'3", 6'5", 6'4"). I personally do think it's smart to go for at least a bit of size in general (not with every pick but the players selected shouldn't be mostly small, some players can be smaller that's never a problem imo) and it's good to see Verbeek does go for skill as well, not just pure size like some other (mostly old) GMs do. Before Verbeek's tenure the Ducks have already selected some "small", highly-skilled players (Zellweger, Drysdale, Perreault are all under 6' and Pastujov and Tracey are both 6') which makes it even less likely he would select more small players. At least that's how I see it.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 19, 2022 at 3:17 p.m.
Thread: Top 10 Players by Position
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ledge_And_Dairy</b></div><div>Stone is criminally low on this list. 1 injured season drops him from top 3 to 10th? Pavelski is still a good player but him and Stone should 100% swap spots at least.

Didn't Stamkos just put up 106 points? How is he not top 10 in at least one of the 3 forward spots?

MacKinnon is the best player in the world after only McDavid, that is not up for debate, putting him at 5th is an insult.

Guentzel and Connor should also probably be top 10 LW's. Miller should heavily be considered too

Markstrom is also certainly top 10, at least over Elvis, Andersen, and Swayman</div></div>

MacKinnon is not the 2nd best. Definitely Top 4, Matthews is ahead of him now and Makar and MacKinnon are tied at 3 for me. But yeah, he's definitely too low here.
Forum: Mock-DraftAug. 15, 2022 at 8:17 a.m.
Thread: 2022-23 Standing Predictions (without explanations)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Lenny7</b></div><div>Love my beloved Ducks, but I really can't see it (unfortunately).

They were fringy (weren't making it) with Hampus, Manson and Rakell last year, then traded the 3 of them.
This year they've added Strome, Klingberg and Vatrano...I *think* it's a bit of an upgrade, but unless Dallas Eakins figures out how to run some sort of system, they'll continue to struggle to keep pucks out of their net.</div></div>

This.

I don't see the Ducks being this good, especially not better than L.A. and Calgary. I could see the Ducks finishing ahead of Vegas if their goaltending without Lehner really is horrible all year and if Gibson can be as good as he was before the all star break last season on a consistent basis.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 31, 2022 at 5:22 p.m.
Thread: Just bored please calm down
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>delneggs</b></div><div>The trade isn't happening for sure, but Panarin's game has fallen off quite a bit? 22 goals and 74 assists for 96 points in 75 games last year. How is that falling off quite a bit from his historical scoring?</div></div>

I said: "once they are contenders, Panarin's game has likely already fallen off quite a bit"
Meaning: When the Ducks' contention window starts in like 3 years, Panarin's game will have fallen off in comparison to now. He'll be great the next few years, but that's the time period that is irrelevant to the Ducks. Panarin doesn't fit the timeline.
To make things clearer I should've said: ...once they are contenders, Panarin's game will have likely already fallen off quite a bit