Devils Acquire Brian Dumoulin From the Ducks

Dumoulin Trade Details

Dumoulin is returning to the East Coast, where he spent a decade with the Pittsburgh Penguins beginning in 2013-14. The 6-foot-4 defenseman played 546 regular-season games with the Penguins, becoming essential to the defense core that led them to back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships in 2016 and 2017. Dumoulin contributed 14 points and 77 hits over 49 post-season games. Now, the bruising blueliner joins a Devils team in the thick of a tight playoff race in the Eastern Conference. 

Anaheim acquired an important second-round pick in this year’s draft, a round where they didn’t have any picks. They traded their original 2025 second-round selection to the Philadelphia Flyers in the Cutter Gauthier acquisition in January 2024. Now, general manager Pat Verbeek and his scouting team will have a pick in each of the first three rounds of the draft – their own first, the Winnipeg Jets’ second (from New Jersey), and the Toronto Maple Leafs’ third-round pick that was part of the Ilya Lyubushkin trade in February 2024. The Ducks will retain 50 percent of Dumoulin’s $3.15 million deal.

Anaheim also received 19-year-old prospect Herman Traff, a third-round selection by the Devils in the 2024 NHL Draft. Traff was selected 91st overall out of the HV71 program in Sweden. According to Elite Prospects, Traff “forechecks with pace and intensity” and uses his 6-foot-3 frame to drive the puck toward the net often.

The new Ducks’ prospect spent the first 25 games of the season in the Swedish Hockey League, the country’s highest level, before being loaned out to the Nybro Vikings IF of HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden’s second-highest division. Traff has six points in nine games for the Vikings.