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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 4141
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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Side note: As bad as Oiler pro scouting has been, with regards to Anaheim.. at least we didn't choose to keep Sami Vatanen and Josh Manson over Shea Theadore.. holy crap
Ducks turned Vatanen into Adam Henrique..
https://thehockeynews.com/news/on-the-incremental-destructio n-of-anaheims-defense
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"..To begin, let’s take it back to 2016-17, when the Ducks won the Pacific Division with 105 points, then went all the way to the conference final before losing to the Nashville Predators. The defense corps from that run featured Cam Fowler, Hampus Lindholm, Sami Vatanen, Josh Manson, Shea Theodore and Brandon Montour as the regulars, with Kevin Bieksa and Korbinian Holzer also seeing action. That top six is super-impressive, especially since all of them can move the puck and even break down evenly in terms of left- and right-handed shots. Plus, Theodore and Montour were still on their way up – they were rookies at the time.
So what happened? Well, Vegas happened, for starters.
The Ducks traded Theodore to the Golden Knights, thus protecting Vatanen or Manson from getting pinched in the expansion draft (the Knights took Clayton Stoner instead). This was bad, but complicated: Anaheim were forced to protect Bieksa, who had a no-move clause, plus the Ducks elected to guard seven forwards and three defensemen, as opposed to four of each. If Bieksa hadn’t been given that NMC originally, the Ducks could have kept Manson and Vatanen on their list (with Fowler and Lindholm) – though that would have made for some interesting decisions at forward.."
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,
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