Anaheim Ducks Salary Cap situation

by JSchon on Jul 9, 2009 6:31 PM EDT

OK... You're asking why I am doing this, to be perfectly honest, I have no idea. I will take however long it takes to do all 30 teams, hopefully 1 team per day. Lets start alphabetically with Anaheim. (Capgeek.com is my resource)

http://www.capgeek.com/charts.php?Team=6

So Anaheim you would think with names like Getzlaf, Perry, Niedermayer, Selanne, Koivu, Lupul, Ryan, Giguere and Whitney (+deadweight Bertuzzi) would be if not in it, real close to cap purgartory. Well my friends you'd be wrong and so would I. With 22 players signed up for the upcoming year already they have a whopping $7.25M left to fill that last spot. If your an Anaheim fan you should be happy because you have Getzlaf, Perry and Lupul all signed to nice reasonable contracts through 2012/13. There is only 1 mildly bad contract and that belongs to Giguere ($6.0M) who was replaced midway through the season by Jonas Hiller, but that contract expires after the 2010/11 season. Their summer (re)signings of Koivu, Niedermayer, Marchant and Boynton where very smartly done. This team is in great shape for next season as well with only one significant payraise due to Bobby Ryan and a modest one to Jonas Hiller if he repeats last seasons performance. This is a strong team that got better this off season, even with the departure of Pronger, Lupul and Sbisa are both quality players. Perry/Getzlaf/Ryan and Selanne/Koivu/Lupul are a pretty good top 6. Niedermayer is, well, Niedermayer. Whitney, Boynton, Sbisa and Niedermayer are their top 4, not bad.

Next season they'll have 10 players signed and have upwards of $28.0M in cap space to add significant FA.

I give Anaheim's cap situation a 9 out of 10. This could change to 10 out of 10, I just haven't analized all 30 teams yet.

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Their cap situation is fine, but their team isn’t – they’ll struggle to make the playoffs with that roster. Their D is fairly terrible and there’s not enough depth up front. Of course, with cap room, they can address some – but not all – of those problems.

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by J.P. on Jul 9, 2009 7:21 PM EDT reply actions

I agree with this. I also think that though they won the Pronger deal, hands down, ESPECIALLY if Philly’s going to be saddled with the over-35 rule on his contract. I don’t think that they’ll show themselves winning that trade, though, for two or three seasons.

I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.

by Whiter Mage on Jul 9, 2009 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Their only loss was Pronger. This team underachieved all of last season, mostly because Giguere was flat out terrible. They took Detroit to a game 7. This off season they added Koivu, Boynton, Sbisa and Lupul. Yes they need to add a defensemen but they have plenty of money to do it.

by JSchon on Jul 9, 2009 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I’ll be honest, I have very little knowledge of their young talent since they are a Western team. So maybe they are not as good as I think since you have to have young guys perform in order to win.

by JSchon on Jul 9, 2009 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Would someone like ShaMo or MilJu help them?

by Gould Old Days on Jul 9, 2009 11:32 PM EDT reply actions

i dont know if we’ll find a buyer for Mo. he doesnt bring too much upside, besides a decent dman. he still makes mistakes and we certainly wouldn’t fill any holes with just him in the trade.

hey- maybe with all that cap space they will take a shot at nyls!

mo & nyls for….. well it doesnt matter who we get if they cant fill a hole, so lets just give them away

by hockeyman33 on Jul 9, 2009 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions

I believe Anaheim just signed their 2nd line center. And their top line center is pretty good. I don’t think Anaheim wants Nylander.

I’m not thinking of anything dramatic for Mo or Juice. Just some value. A 2nd round pick, a slightly tarnished prospect who “could use a change of environment,” George Parros’s mustache…

by Gould Old Days on Jul 9, 2009 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions

mo for erik christensen and a pick

by hockeyman33 on Jul 9, 2009 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions

And yet “They could use a Nylander” would be a great comment on all 29 of these.

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by J.P. on Jul 10, 2009 6:38 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

everyone can used a washed up, overpaid, unproductive old man sitting on their bench!

by hockeyman33 on Jul 10, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions

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