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Trevor Zegras
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Are you ready, NHL fans? We’ve returned to the 82-game regular series format, which means more joy and also pain. It’s a roller coaster of emotions every season because there are always surprises, and the good ones can make us feel like geniuses, while the bad ones feel their stomachs swinging into an empty pool.
But we’re all greedy for punishment, so we may as well stay up to date as we can later rationalize why fantasy hockey gods hate you. Yes, they hate you especially.
So it’s time to imagine all 32 teams. The annual pool guide is available now and also see Matt Larkin’s top 250 players for the upcoming season.
2021-22 Fantasy Views: Anaheim Ducks
Last Season: Insults practically write themselves when you name your team after the bird best known for being slaughtered. The unfortunate Ducks finished 30th in the series and mostly offered cheap options for the fantasy season of 2021. They scored an average of 2.21 goals per game in the league, set a record of only 8.94 per cent in the most incompetent winning game in history and lost 30 games. Their best scorer was Max Comtois, whose team’s top 33 points ranked 112th in the league, and John Gibson won just nine games, the lowest overall since his starting season.
Best option: Trevor Zegras, C.
Ninth choice in 2019, Zegras was one of the few bright spots last season and he is the centerpiece of the post-Ryan Getzlaf era. Despite playing only half a season, Zegras had the second highest P / GP (0.54) after Comtois. He has a lot of offensive upside down and should get more playing time in his first full beginner season averaging 15:24 TOI / GP 24 games last season. The obvious downside is that he’s stuck on a team tied to a lottery and doesn’t have a particularly strong foothold or elite finisher to finish non-viewable passports.
Zegras was particularly dangerous on the line with Comtois and Troy Terry, best known for his clutch performance in the 2017 World Juniors when he scored three goals against Russia in the semi-finals. Terry is one of the team’s best finishers, so combining him and Zegras makes sense, while Comtois adds a little more, though you can switch from Comtois to Jakob Silfverberg, a stronger and more responsible two-way player. Zegras, Terry and Comtois together produced a 5: 5 TOI at 80:25 with 56.7 shots per 60 minutes – a pretty good deal given Winnipeg’s top line of 52.9. THN’s Pool Guide predicts Zegras, who is still a newcomer this season, to lead the Ducks by 58 points.
Hidden Pearl: Jamie Drysdale, D.
The former world juniors gold medalist is a slightly larger version of Quinn Hughes, a skating defender who can escape from any situation and create a lot of scoring opportunities in a way they can manipulate the game with their corners. He scored 18 points in 38 games shared between the Ducks and San Diego Gulls in the American League, and alongside Zegras, he’s going to be a big lynchpins for any offense the Ducks can put together. Drysdale will likely get sheltered minutes, perhaps limiting his playing time, but he can also be a great source of points in a power game.
Goalkeepers
Gibson seemed indifferent sometime last year, and who could blame him? His GSAA numbers were negative for the second consecutive season, according to hockey-reference.com, and Ducks is not expected to be good. He does well at the starting points, but he doesn’t put the same type of peripheral numbers as before, even though he didn’t win. Gibson has recently struggled with injuries and has been placed in the injury reserve twice last season and at least every February 2017-2019. Sketch Gibson and hopes he stays healthy, but at best he’s just one talented goalkeeper stuck on a bad team.
Outlook
The Guard League pays attention to Zegras and Drysdale, although Terry and Comtois may be good late-round options as they are given scoring roles. Rickard Rakell and Silfverberg are recovering from last year’s subpar performances, but they are at their best among the top six wingerers and would likely benefit from switching to another team. Alexander Volkov, who scored seven points in 14 games in his first month at the Ducks and is perhaps the second hidden gem of the Tampa system, is an attractive option, but not worth appreciating, and should be easy to read. Ducks offers late-round options that only have reasonable prizes and aren’t likely to affect the fantasy season very much.
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