Marcus Nordmark

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And then, of course, Marcus Nordmark, the Swedish.

They say he plays like Matthew Kachuk, which if we remember from 10 years ago, would be just fun to watch.

You know, he's a Swedish world junior player.

So Anaheim rolled into San Jose with one of the, I would say probably the second deepest prospect out of the tournament.

Um, you know, the Ducks have 16 draft picks, three first rounders, McQueen, Klapoff and Nordmark, uh, of the most recent ones and eight drafts.

of the nine 2026 draft pick selection suited up so this was the first real look at the ducks next wave of the 25 26 classes together you know building chemistry getting reps and showing what the future might look like um but you know you also remember they only had one practice together and that was just the day before before going up to san jose and playing so you know this they're not going to look good because they've barely ever had practice together but but you know anaheim came offline the forecheck was chris no puck movement was good and the ducks were generating pressure immediately you know for the first five minutes it looked like anaheim was about to break the gate open but you know nabokov had other plans he shut down everything point blake chances rebounds cross ice feeds the ducks were doing everything except putting the puck in the back of the net Instead, Colorado came down and scored on their first real push of the game at the 304 mark.

Taylor McCarr, yeah, that last name sounds very familiar because that's the younger brother of Cale McCarr.

now let's get into the second period and unfortunately colorado scored the first goal of the second period from sean carrier assisted by cooper gay but anaheim answered right back you know around three minutes later from a goal from noah kosick and that was unassisted you know he jumped on a loose puck made a strong individual play cut the deficit and and it was a great read great finish and a great moment for him in his first rookie face-off appearance but colorado kept converting their chances at the 1353 mark he had valder varga scored assisted by alex gagne and ryland kovacevic so and then again Six minutes later, Colorado scored again from Alex Gagne, assisted by TJ Hughes.

The Ducks were still generating looks and we dominated in the shot department, but just could not finish.

Nordmark, Preston, Reed, Truff, all finished with three shots on goal.

But just the Avs just kept, you know, capitalizing and Nabokov shut the door.

Alexander Kamond, you know, another interesting, you know, considered to be high, like boomer bust type prospect.

Actually, no, no, I'm thinking Marcus Nordmark.

No, I like Kamond.

Kamond is a, he's the fun center from Sweden.

um there's a few i'm missing still like he was he was on their third pair for a reason mostly because of just they didn't need him to play a big role and they could stick him on the third pair and then let him play on the second power play and he was very good in that role i expect him to be very very very good in his role this year and that will be 24 to 26 minutes a night on a On a weaker Kitchener team, albeit still a very good Kitchener team.

Because Kitchener doesn't ice bad teams for the most part.

Marcus Nordmark is another one.

He's the interesting one of the group.