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Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 4 heures
Sujet: Anaheim Ducks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BeterChiarelli</b></div><div>And what's the plan to remain cap compliant come the deadline when, supposedly, Dumolin and Vatrano are flipped at 50%? Will the Ducks be taking on cap dumps for free at the deadline? What's the point of acquiring a "better" player for $1M if the only goal for the Ducks this year is to secure another lottery pick and not get hosed on any upcoming Zegras trade?

Be objective. Ceci would automatically be the second-best right handed NHL defender in the Ducks' organization. Unless the plan is to bring Helleson, Luneau, or Warren up prematurely (bringing in Dumolin already points to sheltering Zellweger) and risking their development by asking too much of them too soon on a team destined to be in the bottom five of the league again, it's a smart trade that Anaheim can bail on by the deadline to then open up room for whichever prospect RHD has earned it in San Diego. Verbeek doesn't need to overpay Lacombe and throw money at a no-name UFA to hit the cap floor. A far smarter approach is to bridge Lacombe appropriately and pay a meager price on Ceci. Feed the "bad" RHD to the wolves instead of the kids that Anaheim needs to see complete NHL players over the next two seasons.</div></div>
All good points. But I'd still rather pay for a forward than Ceci. It will be interesting to see how Pat Verbeek handles this issue.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 4 heures
Sujet: Anaheim Ducks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Ceci was third in 5v5 TOI among Oilers defensemen during the playoffs. You clearly don't like him but smarter men obviously appreciate what he brings.

He's not a cap dump.</div></div>
It's untrue that I don't like Ceci; it's just that I don't think that he fills any need for Anaheim (including the falsely perceived one that we'll have trouble getting across the $2.7 million gap to the cap floor) who I believe would decline this offer without an incentive. We have 6 defensemen on the roster now plus RFA Jackson LaCombe, plus Drew Helleson and Tristan Luneau coming up, so Ceci simply isn't a fit for us. Other teams might and should pay at least a fifth for him; I don't think that the Ducks should.

I purposely didn't use the phrase "cap dump" because I think that your motivation in wanting to trade him is to open up the roster slot and give yourselves a small bit of cap relief, not to get rid of his cap hit entirely. One final note: the Ducks have a serious antipathy towards underwater contracts, even ones by so little as the sum here.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 6 heures
Sujet: offseaons
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rex2537</b></div><div>ducks should probably get some warm bodies in that line up, a prospect, a defenseman and a goalie replacement seems like a good start. ANA needs to hit the salary floor so retaining 1.5 along with holl and husso would only help</div></div>
1. Holl and Husso aren't warm bodies, they're warmed-over veterans. And James won't be ready to join anyone's lineup for at least two more seasons.
2. Holl and Husso aren't a good start to anything; they're on the back side of their careers.
3. James is a nice prospect but we have at least 4 LW prospects whose futures are just as bright.
4. Anaheim is only $2.7 million away from reaching the cap floor with Jackson LaCombe still to sign and one more roster slot to fill. We don't need to take any further artificial steps to reach the cap floor now that we traded for Brian DuMoulin.
5. In short, we might give you a middling draft pick for James if he were on the market, which he shouldn't be, but we wouldn't pick Holl or Husso up off waivers, so this unappetizing stew isn't close to getting John Gibson.