"For myself individually, with what I said with where I think the Ducks as a team are, where the organization is and what they're trying to build on in the future, I think it's exciting for me to start with one year and see where thing go move on from there," Klingberg said. He said he's confident he made the right choice.
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Klingberg was arguably the top defenseman available when free agency opened July 13 but remained on the market until he and the Ducks came to an agreement Friday. The Stars lost to the Calgary Flames in seven games in the Western Conference First Round last season.Īnaheim (31-37-14) finished seventh in the Pacific Division last season and has missed the playoffs four straight seasons. Klingberg has 35 points (seven goals, 28 assists) in 59 playoff games and helped Dallas advance to the 2020 Stanley Cup Final, where it lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
We think we've got a real solid individual, somebody that is going to really fit in well with our group and help us out greatly on our back end." I think everybody quickly looked at his ability to run a power play and a lot of teams are short on right-handed defenseman, and he brings that as well. "He is a well-rounded player, he's got great experience in all aspects of the game. "Where we were at with our defense at this time, adding John is huge for us," Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins said. The Ducks were 14th in the NHL last season with the man-advantage (21.9 percent) after being ranked last in 2020-21 (8.9 percent). Of those points, 148 came on the power play (39.6 percent). He had 374 points (71 goals, 303 assists) in 552 regular-season games with the Stars, who selected him in the fifth round (No. He had 47 points (six goals, 41 assists) in 74 regular-season games for the Dallas Stars and one assist in seven Stanley Cup Playoff games last season. We're going to take this year to start off with and see where we're at."įinancial terms of the contract for Klingberg, who turns 30 on Aug. I had a great talk with (Ducks general manager) Pat Verbeek as well, with where we think it's going to be at with the team in the future. If the team's successful, I'm going to be successful. "Obviously, I'm going to need to have a good season and the team is going to need to have a good season as well. I can't focus on what's going to be there in one year. Right now, I'm signing (for) one year at Anaheim and we're going to have to take it from here. "I want to get long term at the end of the day. "I mean it's probably part of the plan, but I'm not going to look too far ahead," Klingberg said Monday.
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