Roster Moves
Like I said earlier, preseason allows the coaching staff to get a better look at the prospects and experiment a little bit. Unfortunately, not every prospect has left an impression. There is still a lot of development that needs to take place and not all of them have what it takes to make it in the NHL. At least, not yet. Two rounds of cuts have already been made, narrowing down the team to a 43 man roster. An updated version of the training camp roster can be found on the Ducks NHL website.
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Assigned to San Diego (AHL): Terrance Amorosa (Defenseman), Alex Dostie (Center), Chris Forney (Defenseman), Scott Moldenhauer (Defenseman), Julius Nattinen (Center), Tyler Soy (Center), Ben Thompson (Left Wing), Giovanni Fiore (Left Wing), Mitch Hults (Center), Jack Kopacka (Left Wing), Angus Redmond (Goaltender), Deven Sideroff (Right Wing), Keaton Thompson (Defenseman)
Assigned to Juniors: Hunter Drew (Defenseman, Charlottetown of QMJHL), Benoit-Olivier Groulx (Center, Halifax of QMJHL), Antoine Morand (Center, Halifax of QMJHL), Kyle Olson (Right Wing, Tri-City of WHL), Roman Durny (Des Moines of USHL)
Assigned Overseas: Olle Eriksson Ek (Goaltender, BIK Karlskoga), Lukas Dostal (Goaltender, SK Horacka Slavia Trebic)
Released: Justin Ducharme (Right Wing, Chicoutimi of QMJHL)
Julius Nattinen has recently been placed on unconditional waivers to terminate his contract. The Ducks second-round 2015 draft pick has opted to return to his native Finland instead of returning to play in San Diego. Defenseman, Jaycob Megna, has also reportedly been placed on waivers.
The Ducks still have a lot of roster trimming left to do, with 20 cuts that still need to be made. However, there are still three preseason games left to evaluate the performance of each player.
Things are slowly coming together. Hopefully, sometime soon, we will be given a better picture as to what the Ducks roster will look like come October 3rd.