GDT: Ducks @ Isles - No morning skate edition - 4PM PT 7PM ET 1AM CET

[c4rcy]

This team is a pile of hot garbage.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Good stuff.

 

[Exit Dose]

I've never seen him this bad. To me, there's no comparison between him this year and 2011-12. There's got to be a structural problem with the team if they really are this bad. Firing a coach or making a trade for that elusive top 6 winger won't do much good.

The only major structural problem they have is in goal scoring. Their top players are struggling with health, bad luck, and a collapsing partnership on Kesler's line. They also lost a significant depth scorer and the goals that Beleskey provided in a primary scoring role. None of the things that could be accounted for were followed up on. They are fixable, though.

 

[illpucks]

Santorelli can't hit the empty net...

 

[DaDucks*]

Sell Andersen asap

 

[TheGoodShepard]

Vomit.

This team singlehandedly keeps Uber in business with the amount of passengers they carry.

 

[Bender66]

Team full of mental midgets.

 

[ducks8]

I don't wanna see Freddy anymore. I'd rather see dubby right now

 

[IDuck]

Well, I picked a great time to finish appointments and sit down.

and i picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue

 

[Tecumseh]

The only major structural problem they have is in goal scoring. Their top players are struggling with health, bad luck, and a collapsing partnership on Kesler's line. They also lost a significant depth scorer and the goals that Beleskey provided in a primary scoring role. None of the things that could be accounted for were followed up on. They are fixable, though.

Frankly, chalking this up to health and bad luck seems like a lame excuse. At this time last year, we were winning hockey games and scoring plenty of goals with the majority of the team afflicted with mumps and other injuries. Something is seriously wrong here and I don't think there's a simple solution that involves a trade or two.

 

[pbgoalie]

Anaheim Slumpbusters

Need a logo

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Depressingly bad.

 

[Exit Dose]

Frankly, chalking this up to health and bad luck seems like a lame excuse. At this time last year, we were winning hockey games and scoring plenty of goals with the majority of the team afflicted with mumps and other injuries. Something is seriously wrong here and I don't think there's a simple solution.

Yeah, except Getzlaf's fitness wasn't clearly compromised this time last year, or any time last year for that matter. Kesler losing one linemate and having another in the toilet, while also having an absurdly low shooting percentage on top of that is also not something that we were dealing with a year ago. We also had some depth scoring out of our bottom six that isn't there, but absolutely was a year ago.

 

[Magnus the Duck]

Depressingly bad.

Yeah.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

and nothing will change.

bieksa wont be scratched
getzlaf wont be benched
silfverberg wont grow a pair of balls
hagelin wont cut his hair

 

[Terry Yake]

yeah there's no way this team is making the playoffs and if they do for some miraculous reason, they'll get blown out in round 1

might as well start tanking for matthews

 

[Goose of Reason]

yeah there's no way this team is making the playoffs and if they do for some miraculous reason, they'll get blown out in round 1

might as well start tanking for matthews

What do you mean "start"?

 

[bumperkisser]

i really wouldn't mind if we tanked. drive the value of our RFA's lower lol

 

[duckaroosky]

Vomit.

This team singlehandedly keeps Uber in business with the amount of passengers they carry.

If they're passengers doesn't that insinuate that we are going somewhere? Because we aren't going anywhere. We are staying right in the basement of the NHL.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

If they're passengers doesn't that insinuate that we are going somewhere? Because we aren't going anywhere. We are staying right in the basement of the NHL.

Which means they're . . . tourists?

 

[duckaroosky]

Which means they're . . . tourists?

Sure... touring the basement of the NHL

"If you look to the right there is NHL Player Derek Morris and to your left the actual bat killed by Jim Lorentz in the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals. Please no flash photography, it angers the bat"

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Sure... touring the basement of the NHL

"If you look to the right there is NHL Player Derek Morris and to your left the actual bat killed by Jim Lorentz in the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals. Please no flash photography, it angers the bat"

So maybe they're more like rubberneckers.

Edit - rubberneckers for their own train wreck.

 

[Ducks DVM]

If they're passengers doesn't that insinuate that we are going somewhere? Because we aren't going anywhere. We are staying right in the basement of the NHL.

Look kids - Big Ben! Parliament!

 

[Exit Dose]

Look kids - Big Ben! Parliament!

Come see your Anaheim Ducks play at the Honda Roundabout. This Friday is 'Creeping Sense Of Despair' night where kids get their dreams crushed for free.

 

[Papaspud]

Sure... touring the basement of the NHL

"If you look to the right there is NHL Player Derek Morris and to your left the actual bat killed by Jim Lorentz in the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals. Please no flash photography, it angers the bat"

If you could somehow dig up the rat that Scott Mellanby dispatched back in the mid-nineties, then you'd have a real attraction. Sign me up for that tour.