Following a period of tension during his tenure as captain of the New York Rangers, general manager Chris Drury shipped him to the Anaheim Ducks in December 2024 in exchange for defenseman Urho Vaakanainen and a conditional 2025 fourth-round pick.
The NHL came down hard this past week on the Vegas Golden Knights, who were sanctioned with the loss of a second-round draft pick in 2026, and head coach John Tortorella was slapped with a $100K fine for not speaking with the media following their Game 6 series-clinching win over the Anaheim Ducks.
The Anaheim Ducks face a potentially complicated decision this offseason as veteran defenseman John Carlson remains noncommittal about his future with the club.
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The 2026 offseason isn’t going to be the first time that Mason McTavish’s name is in trade talks. McTavish held out in contract talks with the Anaheim Ducks over last year’s offseason, and he didn’t sign a new six-year deal until a little under two weeks before the regular season began.
There have been successful rookie seasons in NHL history, and there have been superior efforts worth celebrating time and time again. Here's our list of the 25 notable seasons from those with official rookie status, as deemed by the NHL, in reverse chronological order.
Sammi Silber of The Hockey News: Alex Ovechkin is already back in Russia. The plan had been for the pending UFA to have his end-of-year meetings with the Washington Capitals in mid-May and then head back to Russia.
A little over a year ago, the Anaheim Ducks acquired defenseman Jacob Trouba from the New York Rangers in what appeared at the time as a salary dump for the latter.
It’s hard to believe how productive Cutter Gauthier was for the Anaheim Ducks in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs considering what he was playing through.
Some reinforcements are joining the Leijonat for one of the biggest tournaments in the world. On Saturday, Finnish Men’s National Team general manager Jere Lethinen confirmed that Anaheim Ducks forward Mikael Granlund will be joining Finland for the remainder of the 2026 IIHF Men’s World Championship in Switzerland.
Last offseason, Anaheim Ducks assistant coach Jay Woodcroft interviewed for multiple head coaching positions, and is expected to do the same this summer.
There was a weird development after the Vegas Golden Knights series-clinching win against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night. Not only did head coach John Tortorella ditch the postgame news conference, but the team did not open its locker room to reporters and only made a couple of players available for a few minutes at a podium.
The Anaheim Ducks fell to the Vegas Golden Knights in six games in Round 2 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, losing the final game 5-1 on Thursday night.
John Tortorella appears to be up to his old tricks. Following the decisive win in which the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Anaheim Ducks and eliminated
The Golden Knights are halfway to a Stanley Cup, and Mitch Marner is one of the biggest driving forces behind that success.
Anaheim Ducks head coach Joel Quenneville announced that center Ryan Poehling will be out with an injury, and the timeline for his return is unknown. Poehling sustained the injury midway through the first period of Tuesday’s Game 5 of the Ducks’ second-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2023 NHL Draft Lottery shook up the foundation of the league. The Chicago Blackhawks jumped the Anaheim Ducks to grab the No. 1 overall pick and the opportunity to select a slam-dunk franchise superstar in Connor Bedard.
When the Anaheim Ducks called Beckett Sennecke’s name third overall at the 2024 NHL Draft, the reaction was immediate and almost universal. Scouts questioned it.
The second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs continued on Tuesday night, with the Buffalo Sabres facing the Montreal Canadiens on the road and the Vegas Golden Knights hosting the Anaheim Ducks.
Anaheim Ducks general manager (GM) Pat Verbeek has been named as a finalist for the Jim Gregory Award. The award celebrates the best GM in the league, and Verbeek has certainly made a case for it this season.
The Anaheim Ducks evened their second-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights with a 4-3 win in Game 4, setting up a pivotal Game 5 in Las Vegas.
Beckett Sennecke and Alex Killorn both netted one goal and one assist to pace the host Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night and even their Stanley Cup playoff series.
InUnThe Anaheim Ducks have announced that Lukas Dostal will start in net for Game 4 against the Las Vegas Golden Knights despite his playoff struggles this postseason.
Mason McTavish was once the No. 3 overall pick of the Anaheim Ducks, and given the production he had throughout his junior career, expectations were that he would be a key piece of Anaheim's future.
Lukas Dostal made 22 saves while leading the Anaheim Ducks to a 3-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday in Las Vegas, evening their best-of-seven Western Conference second-round playoff series at one win each.
Joel Quenneville added another massive milestone to his legendary coaching career Wednesday night, becoming the second-winningest coach in NHL playoff history after leading the Anaheim Ducks to a huge 3-1 road win over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals.
The Anaheim Ducks have been building one of the strongest young cores in the NHL, and in 2025-26, all of that time on putting together this group has started to pay off.
Despite losing their Western Conference second-round opener Monday night, the Anaheim Ducks had plenty of reasons to be optimistic heading into Game 2 of their best-of-seven series with the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
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