From teammates in Anaheim to teammates at the Department of Player Safety, Ryan Getzlaf will be seeing George Parros once again.

The league announced Wednesday that Getzlaf, 39, has been hired by the league’s Department of Player Safety. Getzlaf, who retired after the 2021-22 season, spent last season with the Anaheim Ducks as a player development coordinator.

“We are thrilled to welcome Ryan as the newest member of our department,” Parros said in a statement. “His accomplishments on the ice speak for themselves: he won at every level and was widely respected for being a hard-nosed and highly-skilled Player and effective leader. From his rookie NHL season in 2005 until his recent retirement, he lived and played through many of the changes our game has seen, which will provide our group with unique and valuable perspective moving forward.”

Here’s more on Getzlaf’s career, from Daily Faceoff’s Colton Davies:

Getzlaf was selected by the Ducks No. 19 overall in the 2003 NHL Draft and spent his entire career with Anaheim. Getzlaf set franchise records for seasons, games, assists and points during his time in California. Throughout his 17-year illustrious career, Getzlaf notched 737 assists and 1,019 points, he captured a Stanley Cup in 2006-07 and made three All-Star appearances. Getzlaf is one of 12 players in League history to have captained the same team for 10 years and have scored 1,000 points.

Internationally, he represented Canada and captured two Olympic gold medals and five gold medals, including the 2005 World Juniors, 2016 World Cup of Hockey and 2003 U18 World Championship.

The Regina, Saskatchewan product has longstanding philanthropic efforts in Orange County which include support for CureDuchenne, an organization committed to saving the lives of children affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy as well as the Getzlaf Gold Shootout, which over the last 13 years has raised more than $5.8 million to fund research to save those with Duchenne.

Penguins acquire Glass

Once a top prospect in the game after being drafted by the Vegas Golden Knights sixth overall in 2017, Cody Glass is moving onto his third team.

The forward was acquired by the Pittsburgh Penguins Tuesday from the Nashville Predators, along with a third-round pick in 2025 and a sixth-round pick in 2026, for forward Jordan Frasca.

Glass was entering the final year of a two-year deal carrying a $2.5-million cap hit, having played 41 NHL games last year, scoring six goals and 13 points, spending stretches as a healthy scratch. His most productive year came in 2022-23, racking up 14 goals and 35 points in 66 games.

Prior to this year, Hockeyviz.com had him contributing, on average, at the rate of a third-liner throughout his career, but last year he fell off a cliff entirely, contributing well below that of a fourth-line player. He drove offence at an eight percent rate below league average and defence at a staggering 17 percent rate below league average.

Frasca, 23, was signed as an undrafted free agent and has spent the majority of the last two seasons with the ECHL’s Wheeling Nailers, scoring 18 goals and 45 points in 76 games.

The move is a clear cap dump for the Predators, taking them from being roughly $500,000 under the cap, now to a shade over $3-million in space. Nashville still has restricted free agents forward Philip Tomasino and Juuse Parssinen to sign, so that cap space won’t last too long.

Pittsburgh, meanwhile, picks up a few draft picks, and will try and return Glass to form.