J.S. Giguere Not Pleased in Anaheim
It looks like goaltender J.S. Giguere is getting restless with the situation in Anaheim. The Ducks keeper is not at all pleased with his playing situation, said the Los Angeles Daily News, and if things don’t get better soon he’ll be looking for other options.
According to the paper, Giguere said that he’d “rather retire than be a backup goalie.”
“Something needs to happen,” Giguere told the paper. “You get a guy like (Hiller) that’s going to be a free agent at the end of the year and myself, making the money I’m making, either I’m leaving or he’s leaving.”
Giguere is set to make $13 million over the next two years and simple math tells us that he’s right as rain with his assessment. Hiller, 27, is going to make $1.3 million in the final year of his contract and all signs suggest that the Ducks will look to lock him up to a more significant deal.
Sources have said that Giguere has presented Ducks management with a list of teams that he’d accept a move to in the off-season and that he may be prepared to waive his no-trade clause in order to get something done. It appears that ice time is the major issue here and that Giguere is not pleased with splitting duties with Hiller.
“I want to play; that’s when I have fun. Right now, this is not fun,” Giguere told the paper. “I am looking forward to having fun at some point at some time. I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but it’s going to happen.”
Posted by Jordan Richardson.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, goalie, j.s. giguere, jonas hiller
November 11th, 2009 at 7:36 am
I have heard this type of Whining a little too much lately.
I feel like I am listening to a kid in a playground, who can’t seem to get his own way.
Hiller is #1 for a reason, he is playing better, He made Ilja Bryzgalov expendable
Now It could Giguere’s turn.
Yes the Ducks won the cup 3 years ago
and Giguere was a huge part of that. he did win the Conn Smythe.
Come to think of it all cup champs need great goal tending to win.
But a lot happens in 3 years
Some big names like Pronger and Kunitz are no longer Ducks, Burke has moved on
and there has been the emergence of Jonas Hiller.
The only problem is 13 million for 2 seasons
that is a lot for a team to pay for a guy who lost his starting job.
Although he 32 or 33 so he is not done, he could help another team
I think for sure, unless there is injury he is done in Anaheim
When guys start this, remove them
There has never been an I in the team Called the Ducks
They are a tight unit and right now Giguere is poison.
This list he gets to make, and this no trade clause are pathetic
Players need to stop holding teams hostage.
U don’t want to play get out
Let Anaheim make the trade you big suck.