Ducks Send More Packing

The Ducks made some significant cuts on Monday, trimming down their roster by seven players, including forwards Dan Sexton and Kyle Palmieri, who were listed on the projection list for the Ducks going into this season.

Sexton, I had on my expected roster going into the season, so his early demotion, before the last week of preseason games, does come as a bit of a surprise, but Anaheim is loaded with talent, so it isn't too bad.  Some of that talent that could have unseated Sexton belonged to Palmieri, but his demotion may come as a little bit more of a shock than not.

With these two demotions, their projections have now bottomed out as regular season call-ups at best, so be sure not to think of these two as sleepers, as of today.

Forwards		Defense		Goalies
Ryan Getzlaf	90	Lubomir Visnovsky	55	Jonas Hiller	75
Corey Perry	85	Cam Fowler	35	Dan Ellis	20
Bobby Ryan	80	Kurtis Foster	30
Teemu Selanne	70	Toni Lydman	25
Saku Koivu	45	Francois Beauchemin	15
Jason Blake	40	Luca Sbisa	15
Andrew Cogliano	30	Sheldon Brookbank	5
Brandon McMillan	25
Matt Beleskey	20
J-F Jacques	5
George Parros	5
Devante Smith-Pelly	20	Matt Smaby	5	Jeff Deslauriers	5
Andrew Gordon	10	Nate Guenin	5
Brian McGrattan	5
Dan Sexton	5
Kyle Palmieri	5

There have been a couple of additions to the Ducks' table today, as Devante Smith-Pelly has turned a few heads and he currently remains in camp.  There is definitely some potential for him down the road, but the top six is pretty well full at this point, so there is no point in giving him more points than he will likely see ice-time for.