I know we have maybe the best or top 3 prospect pools in the league. Curious how much of a powerhouse everyone expects us to be in 4-5 years assuming we can keep all of our young guys and prospects.
I imagine our D will be maybe best in the league within a few years given the insane amount of young talent we have there.
Edit: found this article. Found it interesting.
https://theathletic.com/4791896/2023/08/24/anaheim-ducks-nhl-prospect-pipeline-rankings/
by Maleficent-Citron-24
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We have the a top 3 future on the league.
Devils
Sabres
Us.
I mean you never know for sure until it plays out. But nobody stays bad forever and we’ve piled up a lot of interesting young talent
Everytime I walk into Anaheim Ice or the Ponda I see those 5 consecutive division winning banners and shake my head at how close the team got so many times.
This team is projecting in that direction.
An incredible youth movement on both the forward and defensive lines that could potentially be better than those 5 consecutive years.
We’re still a year or two away from starting that stretch but I’m very hopeful this group continues to develop and sprinkling a free agent signing or two to help get them over the top.
It’s hard to say. The goal is the cup and so much depends on prospects becoming not good players, but great players.
We got the right assembly of skills and positional depth to be hopeful. (except maybe some more forwards with right hand shots)
I think the fun part now is we largely know who we need to hope fills what roll on the team and we get to share in their professional highs and lows as fans.
It’s certainly exciting. But I still think we need a high scoring winger. Whether that comes from another high draft pick next year, or all our defensive prospects pan out and we make a trade at some point
GMPV adds players he thinks he can flip at the trade deadline for prospects and picks. While it doesn’t always work, it’s a team building idea. I get adding toughness this year to protect youth and we do need some players that can get ugly against big players, but at some point we need speed forwards in today’s game.
I think the Ducks we be an absolute hellstorm to play against as soon as next year with the D exploiting every open ice mistake. From what I have seen these young D could play this year, but with the usual tragic rookie mistakes. So the Ducks use the AHL and we wait and I can appreciate it, but really I LOVE having this rock solid D corp coming.
Not sure but it can’t be as dark as the Eakins era
4-5 years is too far away to predict, but I will say that I highly doubt all of our young players can coexist – I fully anticipate trades over the next two years for a good half of those players. With that said with their current group I think they’ve the pieces for… second round of the playoffs. If things break right.
I mean no disrespect by that, just that the current group of youths while talented leave some gaps.
1. There are no scorers. Can’t win without goals
2. Lacking strong defenders. Elite talent on the blue line but right now none of them are adequate defensively.
It’s a very good group and building block, but changes will need to be made to fill in the gaps if a cup is the aim. Hence trades being made, but who knows what 5 years from now looks like