The Ducks have inked center Ethan Procyszyn to a three-year, entry-level contract, the team announced on Tuesday ahead of Game 2 of its first-round playoff series in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
Procyszyn, 19, was a third-round selection of the Ducks in 2024, going 68th overall. After notching a modest 36 points in his draft year, he\u2019s compiled 123 more in his past two campaigns in the Ontario Hockey League with the North Bay Battalion.<\/p>\n
He led North Bay in points, goals, plus-minus rating, faceoff wins, power-play goals and game-winning goals this season.<\/p>\n
His offense, however, is just gravy atop the heap of meat and potatoes that is his game. At six-feet-three-inches and roughly 200 pounds, Procyszyn\u2019s physical presence and disruptive defense have been his signature elements.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a willing and often punishing hitter, but he brings discipline and nuance to the ice as well, jamming shooting and passing lanes while also using his stick effectively.<\/p>\n
Though the Ducks have some similarly molded skaters in their system, Procyszyn projects as exactly the type of player they could use presently: one who\u2019s eager and capable in the dirty areas but that won\u2019t hold back their free-flowing offense.<\/p>\n
The walls, the corners and the netfront have all been unkind to the Ducks, who have on some nights turned 50\/50 battles into 20\/80 uphill climbs. Procyszyn excels in these areas and has some nastiness to his game as well, something general manager Pat Verbeek undoubtedly valued.<\/p>\n
If he can improve his skating and continue to refine his skills, Procyszyn could be a regular in the Ducks\u2019 bottom six in time. He\u2019s already not only bigger than many of his peers, but with a solid, well-proportioned physique and top-tier fitness testing. He has said that he models his game after a similarly sized and oriented pro forward, the Tampa Bay Lightning\u2019s Nick Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks have inked center Ethan Procyszyn to a three-year, entry-level contract, the team announced on Tuesday ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-279191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}