GDT: Ducks @ Caps - noon o' clock today

[KyleJRM]

It’s the random periods where they look completely lost, get outshot 20-4, that concern me. They look like the above-average hockey team they are 80% of the time, but just shockingly bad the other 20%.

They get a home game against the very bad Blackhawks to try to get to true .500, which would be pretty amazing.

 

[Paul4587]

I wish I could see what this team was capable of with a different coach.

 

[Ducks in a row]

Ducks came back from a 5 - 1 deficit to win 6-5 in Washington wow

Ducks goals of the game







Aberg rips a PPG off the post

Lindholm ties the game with a PPG

Aberg's go-ahead goal

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

It’s the random periods where they look completely lost, get outshot 20-4, that concern me. They look like the above-average hockey team they are 80% of the time, but just shockingly bad the other 20%.

They get a home game against the very bad Blackhawks to try to get to true .500, which would be pretty amazing.

I'd switch those percentages.

 

[terranraida]

I was at the game tonight, and ready to walk out the doors when it hit 5-1. It was insane.

 

[Dirk316]

Should Carlyle get fired?

 

[duckaroosky]

And I was having such a good day. We were all having a good day!

 

[ScarTroy]

Should Carlyle get fired?

Yes

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

I’ve never rooted for them to lose. I’ve been resigned to them losing because they have a bad coach with a boring style of hockey, and they aren’t doing a damned thing that BM promised would occur in the offseason. That challenge tonight was asinine. And they’re still getting routinely horrifically outplayed, they’re just getting Vezina caliber goaltending and coming on at the end of games. If anything, it’s infuriating that they CAN play like that for short periods of time and look like trash for the other 40-50 minutes of the game.

It is nice to be winning though. But they’ll be a 4-5 game out in the playoffs if they continue playing like this, and we all want better.

Lol no they're not.

Anyway, the guy has a point. When the team has a pretty incredible come from behind win and the first thought of a bunch of people is about RC, maybe it's time to take a step back, maybe even log off for a bit.

 

[Ducks DVM]

Lol no they're not.

Anyway, the guy has a point. When the team has a pretty incredible come from behind win and the first thought of a bunch of people is about RC, maybe it's time to take a step back, maybe even log off for a bit.

A recurrent theme of the entire road trip has been “don’t bother watching the 1st/2nd period”. They were down 5-1 tonight. They were outshot 21-6 in the 1st period against Carolina. Outshot 15-8, 16-8, 13-9 vs Florida. They were great in Tampa. They were worse than the score looked in Nashville. Their record is not reflective of the way those games were played, Vezina level goaltending notwithstanding. So, I’m going to have to disagree with you on that.

I hear you on RC, but the team isn’t gojng anywhere playing like this. Miracle 3rd period comebacks aren’t a sustainable way to advance in the playoffs, and our current position is more evidence of how execrable the Pacific is than as to how good the Ducks are.

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Should Carlyle get fired?

Fired, then deported to Kiev.

 

[Ducks DVM]

Fired, then deported to Kiev.

What do you have against Kiev?

 

[Lord Flashheart]

What do you have against Kiev?

Nothing, just want him closer to Dirk. It's a friendly gesture.

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

A recurrent theme of the entire road trip has been “don’t bother watching the 1st/2nd period”. They were down 5-1 tonight. They were outshot 21-6 in the 1st period against Carolina. Outshot 15-8, 16-8, 13-9 vs Florida. They were great in Tampa. They were worse than the score looked in Nashville. Their record is not reflective of the way those games were played, Vezina level goaltending notwithstanding. So, I’m going to have to disagree with you on that.

I hear you on RC, but the team isn’t gojng anywhere playing like this. Miracle 3rd period comebacks aren’t a sustainable way to advance in the playoffs, and our current position is more evidence of how execrable the Pacific is than as to how good the Ducks are.

No ones saying a string of bad first periods and needing to come back many nights is a good thing, but theres quite a difference between that and being routinely outplayed, let alone horrifically. Theres no real need to dress it up.

And sure, but again, if that's on your mind immediately following a 4 goal comeback, that's where theres an issue. Hes not getting fired guys, just enjoy what you can.

 

[Ducks DVM]

No ones saying a string of bad first periods and needing to come back many nights is a good thing, but theres quite a difference between that and being routinely outplayed, let alone horrifically. Theres no real need to dress it up.

And sure, but again, if that's on your mind immediately following a 4 goal comeback, that's where theres an issue. Hes not getting fired guys, just enjoy what you can.

One could make an argument pretty easily that the score of the Nashville game, and the shots against in Carolina understated just how badly they played. Tonight as well. You can fill in a lesser adjective and I won’t argue too much, but it’s not close just how badly they’re being outplayed for appreciable periods of time in 4 of the last 5 games, and they are not outplaying the other team by the same margins when they pull the comebacks. They are the merely the team with the better goalie.

That’s not sustainable, and I’ll be happy and excited for the wins, but I’m not happy or excited at them doing exactly what they did last year after an offseason of promised changes and accountability that are nowhere to be seen. We all know how that ends.

 

[KyleJRM]

The goalie is part of the team

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

The goalie is part of the team

So no worries.

 

[Ducks DVM]

The goalie is part of the team

I can come up with two teams total where the goaltender has covered up for a flawed team and got them to a Final. I can think of a large number that got the team to a 1st round exit. I can think of none that have won. You?

 

[Paul4587]

The goalie is part of the team

And if our number one keeps seeing rubber at the rate he has been he will be out of gas come Christmas time.

 

[KyleJRM]

I can come up with two teams total where the goaltender has covered up for a flawed team and got them to a Final. I can think of a large number that got the team to a 1st round exit. I can think of none that have won. You?

Almost half of all teams don't make the playoffs. Of the ones that do, 75% go out in the first two rounds.

Of course you remember way more who don't make the Final than do.

 

[Terry Yake]

I wish I could see what this team was capable of with a different coach.

just imagine the ducks under BB

that's what we'd be seeing

 

[AngelDuck]

I think this team could be like the 2012 Kings under the right coach. Good D, ELITE goalie, just good enough forwards. One thing we don't have is Drew Doughty. Also Kesler turning into a pumpkin hurts our C depth tremendously

I'd love to see our D commit to just taking away all time and space with their mobility but that would require the coach making every forward on the roster back check their ass off.

This teams future is not hopeless at all. I went into this season with extremely low expectations but I am optimistic about 2020 (feels weird to talk about the 20s) and beyond

 

[Ducks DVM]

Almost half of all teams don't make the playoffs. Of the ones that do, 75% go out in the first two rounds.

Of course you remember way more who don't make the Final than do.

Yes, because , like I said, zero and two are easy numbers to remember.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Should Carlyle get fired?

I assume when it was 5 to 1 , RC said do what you want...and team scored 5 unanswered.

 

[Anaheim4ever]

I think this team could be like the 2012 Kings under the right coach. Good D, ELITE goalie, just good enough forwards. One thing we don't have is Drew Doughty. Also Kesler turning into a pumpkin hurts our C depth tremendously

I'd love to see our D commit to just taking away all time and space with their mobility but that would require the coach making every forward on the roster back check their ass off.

This teams future is not hopeless at all. I went into this season with extremely low expectations but I am optimistic about 2020 (feels weird to talk about the 20s) and beyond

When all of: Steel, Lundestrom, Terry, Comtois, Jones, Morand, Groulx, Mahura are permanently part of the roster they will likely be a very good team & Lindholm/Gibson will be in peak form having the best years of their career. Getzlaf will be old but likely returns on a short contract & continues to produce the way Joe Thornton has in his late 30s, Perry won't be re-signed at all, Kesler will likely be bought out by then or LTIR.
They may not have a superstar type forward but they'll have 4 lines that can score, great D & elite goalie.