No thanks. I’m good with finishing 2nd to last to guarantee a top 4 pick.
I would like close, competitive, high scoring games that we lose in the last 40 seconds. Dropping to 4th > dropping to 5-6th.
If I may be so greedy, I'd like to give up the GWG with like 3 minutes left and then spend the final 3 minutes getting insanely close but just barely missing it. If we could repeat that for every remaining game of the season that would be great.
That IS my optimistic post. I think they’re going to lose most of the remaining games by 3-5 goal spreads and look lethargic doing it.
| Ducks | 2022-23 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Game # | Date | Opp | GF | GA | GD | OT | |
63 | 3-Mar | Mtl | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
64 | 7-Mar | at | Sea | 2 | 5 | -3 | |
65 | 8-Mar | at | Van | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
66 | 10-Mar | at | Cal | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
67 | 12-Mar | Nsh | 4 | 5 | -1 | 1 | |
68 | 15-Mar | NYI | 3 | 6 | -3 | ||
69 | 17-Mar | CLB | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||
70 | 19-Mar | Van | 1 | 2 | -1 | ||
71 | 21-Mar | Cal | 1 | 5 | -4 | ||
72 | 23-Mar | Wpg | 2 | 3 | -1 | ||
73 | 25-Mar | StL | 3 | 6 | -3 | ||
74 | 27-Mar | Col | 1 | 5 | -4 | ||
75 | 30-Mar | at | Sea | 1 | 4 | -3 | |
76 | 1-Apr | at | Edm | 0 | 6 | -6 | |
77 | 2-Apr | at | Cal | 4 | 5 | -1 | |
78 | 5-Apr | Edm | 1 | 3 | -2 | ||
79 | 8-Apr | at | Ari | 4 | 5 | -1 | 1 |
80 | 9-Apr | Col | 4 | 5 | -1 | 1 | |
81 | 11-Apr | Van | 2 | 3 | -1 | ||
82 | 13-Apr | LAK | 3 | 5 | -2 | ||
| GF | GA | GD | OT | ||||
| Totals | 51 | 83 | -32 | 4 | |||
| Avg | 2.6 | 4.2 | -2.0 |
| Ducks | 2023-24 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| game set | Games | GF | GA | GD | OT |
| 62 to 75 | 14 | 20 | 56 | -36 | 1 |
| Average | 1.4 | 4.0 | -2.6 |
I honestly don't even care about the lottery this year. Last year was a different story. You had 3 primo guys to pick from in the top 3. This year I'm just not hyped on any of the defensemen I've kept my eyes on. If it's not first overall then to me, there's like 6 guys that are more or less the same quality. And I can just see this team dropping one or two spots.
Yep, I suppose moving one direction or the other would change the odds at winning the lottery, but if we don't... then I could easily see where we end up not mattering, i. e. we would take the same guy at 3 as we would at 5 or 6.
