The Anaheim Ducks offered a defenseman with 14 NHL games of experience a $7.2 million per season contract over six seasons. It’s a huge bet that the organization is making on an unproven player.
The Anaheim Ducks made a surprising move on a very unproven player. Will it pay off? On Thursday, general manager Pat Verbeek made a rather stunning announcement, signing defenseman Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
The biggest off-season news was the signing of two Anaheim Ducks powerhouse forwards: 22-year-old Cutter Gauthier and 21-year-old Leo Carlsson. After being traded to the Anaheim Ducks two years ago in 2024, Cutter Gauthier was finally signed on for another six years on an $81 million contract.
We are on the eve of puck drop for the 2026-27 season for the Anaheim Ducks, but the team had one more piece of business to announce before then, as Tristan Luneau signed a six-year extension with an AAV of $7.2 million.
The Anaheim Ducks and defenseman Tristan Luneau have agreed to a six-year extension through the 2032-33 season, the club announced Thursday. Published reports peg the deal at $43.2 million.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
A very surprising deal for a relatively unproven player. On Thursday, the Anaheim Ducks announced that the team has signed defenseman Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
The Anaheim Ducks have given Tristan Luneau a six-year, $43.2 million extension, a $7.2 million average annual value, and the number is hard to ignore.
The Anaheim Ducks have secured a long-term commitment with one of their most promising young defenders. Tristan Luneau has signed a six-year, $43.2MM contract extension per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
We are now under two days until the start of Ducks hockey for the 2026-27 season and there have already been some shakeups to a potential opening night roster, as Drew Helleson has been placed on IR, Roger McQueen was sent down to San Diego, but Tristan Luneau was called back up to Anaheim.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Anaheim Ducks open their season against the Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas on Oct. 2. After a postseason run, a restful offseason, and a reworked roster, the team is ready to kick off the campaign.
Despite the events that transpired over the summer, a certain Anaheim Duck never wanted to leave the nest. In a letter to fans on NHL.com, forward Leo Carlsson explained that he always wanted to stay in Anaheim, even though he signed an offer sheet from the Philadelphia Flyers over the summer.
Final rosters are set and the puck drops on the start of the 2026-27 season tomorrow night. The Anaheim Ducks, however, will not see their first game action until Friday night at Vegas.
With the regular season starting on Tuesday, teams have to have compliant rosters in by 4 PM CT on Monday. Accordingly, the next few days will be very busy on the transactions front to get those rosters set. We’ll keep track of today’s camp cuts here.
Danny Briere and the Philadelphia Flyers changed the NHL’s contract landscape this summer by signing Leo Carlsson to a massive offer sheet that the Anaheim Ducks eventually matched, and it turns out they weren’t alone in their thinking.
It’s been a hectic summer for the Anaheim Ducks, as general manager Pat Verbeek had his plans thrown by the wayside when the Philadelphia Flyers signed Leo Carlsson to an offer sheet with a salary cap hit of $18 million.
The Anaheim Ducks’ decision to name Mikael Granlund captain instead of Leo Carlsson is drawing criticism, and one analyst thinks the reasons may be personal.
The Anaheim Ducks announced on Tuesday morning that center Mikael Granlund will be the new team captain. He is the tenth captain in franchise history and follows Radko Gudas, who was traded to the Florida Panthers in June.
Five days before their preseason opener, the Anaheim Ducks signed their leading goal-scorer and point-scorer from last season, forward Cutter Gauthier, to a six-year deal on Tuesday.
The Anaheim Ducks terminated forward Chris Kreider's contract on Thursday after he went unclaimed on unconditional waivers. Kreider, 35, is now an unrestricted free agent with league training camps set to open next week.
There might not have been a more impactful contract signed in the NHL this offseason than the five-year, $90 million offer sheet Leo Carlsson signed with the Philadelphia Flyers in restricted free agency.