NHL.com point projection: 59<\/p>\n
The offseason additions of Granlund (signed three-year contract) and Chris Kreider<\/a> (acquired from New York Rangers) should boost the Ducks\u2019 top-nine forward group and address their power-play struggles from last season; they were last on the power play (11.8 percent) and 30th in goals per game (2.65). Granlund, a five-time 60-point producer, was relied upon heavily last season with the San Jose Sharks; he ranked among the top 75 overall fantasy players in standard leagues (45 points, 15 on power play, in 52 games) before being traded to the Dallas Stars on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n NHL.com point projection: 55<\/p>\n Gauthier was tied with Matvei Michkov<\/a> of the Philadelphia Flyers for the NHL rookie lead in even-strength goals (18) last season and tied with Alex Killorn<\/a> for Anaheim\u2019s lead in that category. Gauthier had 22 points (11 goals, 11 assists) over his final 27 games last season and has the potential to eclipse the 30-goal mark in his second season given his high shot volume (190 shots on goal; second on Ducks behind Frank Vatrano\u2019s 234).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com point projection: 59 The offseason additions of Granlund (signed three-year contract) and Chris Kreider (acquired from New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-36394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}