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Originally Posted by traptor
Yeah hard to see Rasmus signing in Anaheim after turning LA down.
Who knows though, maybe he sees Anaheim as a team on the upswing.
I wonder what type of package we could put together without him. It would hurt, but it's the type of swing we would have to make.
Atleast one (if not two) of our 2026 1st, Zary and Bruz would be going.
Put me in the camp that would overpay for a young Center like McTavish.
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The Ducks and Kings are very different teams.
The Kings are much older with their oldest players also being their star players (Kopitar & Doughty). Even more than that, the average age of the Kings D group is 29.9yo.
The Ducks are a much younger group with their star players being some of their youngest players. The average age of the Ducks' D group is 25.3.
The Kings have $1.9M in cap space and the Ducks have $20M in cap space.
It is easy to see the Kings are more likely to decline and head into a rebuild whereas the Ducks are just finishing a rebuild and loaded up on talented players.
There is an interesting contract situation with the Ducks too. Trouba and Gudas both have 1 year left on their deals and I doubt either are re-signed. That would basically set up Andersson to be the one and only vet in a D group where everyone else is 25 or under.
Also, the Ducks prospect situation works better for Andersson than the Kings. The Kings have a couple of 1st round pick young Dmen (Clarke and Brzustewicz) who would be challenging Andersson's spot in a short amount of time.
The Ducks, on the other hand, do not have elite RD prospects and their best D prospects are LD: Mintyukov and Solberg. Andersson could work with these guys and compliment them
IMO when looking at the Cali teams, Andersson would do well to go to either the Ducks or Sharks and avoid the Kings.