Anaheim Ducks
The whole organization. One connected view.
Western Conference · Pacific DivisionOpen GM workspace2026–27
Current roster2514 F · 9 D · 2 GKnown commitmentsUS$98.7M18 / 20 contracts pricedFarm system#13Middle · board consensusNext gamevs VANOct 27
Line combinations
Provider projection · 2026-10-12
#45
#91
#28
#13
#64
#61
#17
#25
#18
#39
#42
#2
#47
#98
#34
#55
#67Goaltending
Lukas Dostal
#1 · ANA · 26 years- SV%
- GAA
- Games
2025–26 · NHL regular season
Shots on goal faced
1,344 saves169 goals allowed
Source & scope
NHL stats API goalie summary (aggregated across clubs), data/goalie-stats-2025-26.json · 2026-09-21T18:03:37.296Z. Current roster; statistics from the stated season, across clubs. This selection does not identify tonight’s starter. Condensed footage does not establish full video coverage.
Contract horizon
Cap & contractsKnown AAV · 2026–2718 priced deals · 2 AAV unknown
Ceiling · ConfirmedUS$104M
Known committed share94.9%
Ceiling less known AAVUS$5.3M
ForwardsDefenceGoalies
Line: season-specific ceiling. * Outlook or assumption. Balance is not certified cap room.
Cap outlook assumptions
Local to this panel; does not change the GM financial scenario ceiling.
Sources, coverage & amounts
Sum of known AAV, not a complete payroll forecast or available cap room. Relief, bonuses and other charges are excluded. The file may contain later-dated signed terms; its file stamp is not a historical as-of reconstruction.
NHL/NHLPA · 2026–27: $104M · 2026-05-06
NHL/NHLPA · 2027–28: $113.5M · 2025-01-31 · subject to adjustment
Elliotte Friedman / Sportsnet · 2028–29: $127.5M · 2026-09-25 · reported estimate, not confirmed
Beyond that, no published limit in the checked sources. Any chosen growth is a planning assumption, not a forecast. Expiring commitments do not automatically fund a complete future roster.
18 contracts with unresolved terms remain outside the bars.
- F
- 69,295,000 USD
- D
- 20,700,000 USD
- G
- 8,700,000 USD
0 priced signed extensions included this season.
Contract ledger · file stamp 2026-09-21
Prospect pathways
Prospects
Lucas PetterssonC · Brynäs IFNHLETA —
Nikita KlepovRW · Saginaw SpiritNHLETA —
Stian SolbergD · San Diego GullsNHLETA —
Context & more prospects
Farm-board notables; recorded development stage, not an arrival forecast.
Lucas Pettersson: 41 GP · 2025–26 · 20 points
Nikita Klepov: 67 GP · 2025–26 · 97 points
Stian Solberg: 71 GP · 2025–26 · 24 points
Selection follows the farm board's published notable order. The NHL step is a pathway, not a confirmed move. Arrival dates and current rights are not verified here.
Roger McQueen
Marcus Nordmark
All pathways & roster lanes →What changed
All movesResults, standings & source context
2026–27 regular season · current roster
Team overview
What the contracts tell us
What the contracts mean for the next moves
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Next game
2026–27
Upcoming games, columns & export
| Date | Opponent | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs VAN | Regular season | ||
| vs BUF | Regular season | ||
| vs OTT | Regular season | ||
| at VAN | Regular season | ||
| at EDM | Regular season |
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Anaheim Ducks are quiet (3rd percentile); attention is up on the usual
How much the club is being talked about: the league's stories tagged to the club and to its players, daily pageviews of the club's article against its 90-day baseline, and posts naming the club on the connected networks (Bluesky). Attention, measured; not a claim about what it does to the room.
Social: .
Carrying the noise: Roger McQueen (), Leo Carlsson (), Cutter Gauthier ().
Latest from the league: Bruins' power play fuels comeback against Ducks (2026-10-17) · Bruins' power play fuels comeback against Ducks (2026-10-17) · Bruins' power play fuels comeback against Ducks (2026-10-17)
Contract ledger · researched 2026-09-21
Anaheim Ducks contracts, 2026–27 onward
Every contract CapOrCup could source, one row per player, one column per season. Certified rows match a club or NHL release. Reported rows come from a named outlet and are labelled. Contracts with no public source are listed separately, and none are estimated.
| Player | 2026–27 | 2027–28 | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | |||
| Leo CarlssonReportedCNTC | |||
| Cutter GauthierCertifiedLM-NTC | |||
| Mikael GranlundReportedCM-NTC | |||
| Troy TerryReportedR | |||
| Alex KillornReportedLM-NTC | |||
| Frank VatranoCertifiedR | |||
| A.J. GreerReportedLM-NTC | |||
| Ryan PoehlingReportedC | |||
| Jeff MalottReportedLW | |||
| Tim WasheReportedC | |||
| Nikita NesterenkoReportedC | |||
| Roger McQueenCertifiedC | |||
| Defence · | |||
| Jackson LaCombeReportedDM-NTC | |||
| Pavel MintyukovCertifiedDM-NTC | |||
| Nick JensenReportedD | |||
| Ian MooreCertifiedD | |||
| Drew HellesonReportedD | |||
| Goalies · | |||
| Lukas DostalReportedGM-NTC | |||
| Ville HussoReportedG | |||
| Sourced total | |||
| |||
Cap or Cup · league-wide signals
Who is earning the cap hit
Each priced ANA skater compared with every priced skater at the same position in the league. Open a signal for the full drill-down on the league board: the tests, the numbers, and what would change it.
Private scenario · 2026–27
Anaheim Ducks cap planner
Enter figures you trust. The planner never turns missing contract data into a published total, and saves only in this browser.
Line 1
Gauthier · Carlsson · Terry
Line 2
Granlund
Line 3
Killorn · Greer · Poehling
Line 4
Malott · Vatrano · Washe · Nesterenko
Pair 1
LaCombe
Pair 2
Mintyukov · Jensen · Helleson
Pair 3
Moore
Projected lineup · as of 2026-10-12
Anaheim Ducks as the feed projects it
Sportradar NHL API v7, team depth charts depth chart (licensed feed (30-day trial)): the club's intended lines, pairs, power-play units and goalie order, under Joel Quenneville. Measured lines above come from last season's shift charts; this is what the club says it means to do. "Expected starter" is first on the chart, not a confirmed start.
Line 1 · Beckett Sennecke · Leo Carlsson · Judd Caulfield
Line 2 · Nikita Nesterenko · Mikael Granlund · Cutter Gauthier
Line 3 · Alex Killorn · Ryan Poehling · A.J. Greer
Line 4 · Jeff Malott · Tim Washe
Pair 1 · Jackson LaCombe · Noah Warren
Pair 2 · Pavel Mintyukov · Travis Mitchell
Pair 3 · Tyson Hinds · Tristan Luneau
Power play 1 · Beckett Sennecke · Leo Carlsson · Mikael Granlund · Jackson LaCombe · Cutter Gauthier
Power play 2 · Alex Killorn · Ryan Poehling · Sam Colangelo · Tristan Luneau · Pavel Mintyukov
Goalies · expected starter Ville Husso · Lukas Dostal
Official roster
Who is in the organization now
| Player | # | Pos | Age | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | ||||
| Leo Carlsson | 91 | C | ||
| Judd Caulfield | 28 | R | ||
| Sam Colangelo | 12 | R | ||
| Cutter Gauthier | 61 | L | ||
| Mikael Granlund | 64 | C | ||
| A.J. Greer | 18 | L | ||
| Alex Killorn | 17 | L | ||
| Nikita Klepov | 40 | R | ||
| Jeff Malott | 39 | L | ||
| Nikita Nesterenko | 13 | C | ||
| Ryan Poehling | 25 | C | ||
| Beckett Sennecke | 45 | R | ||
| Frank Vatrano | 77 | R | ||
| Tim Washe | 42 | C | ||
| Defense · | ||||
| Drew Helleson | 14 | D | ||
| Tyson Hinds | 55 | D | ||
| Nick Jensen | 4 | D | ||
| Jackson LaCombe | 2 | D | ||
| Tristan Luneau | 67 | D | ||
| Pavel Mintyukov | 98 | D | ||
| Travis Mitchell | 34 | D | ||
| Ian Moore | 3 | D | ||
| Noah Warren | 47 | D | ||
| Goalies · | ||||
| Lukas Dostal | 1 | G | ||
| Ville Husso | 33 | G | ||
2025–26 production
Last season’s scoring leaders
Club totals with ANA.
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1Range not available Cutter GauthierL | |||||
| #2Range not available Leo CarlssonC | |||||
| #3Range not available Beckett SenneckeR | |||||
| #4Range not available Jackson LaCombeD | |||||
| #5Range not available Troy TerryR | |||||
| #6Range not available Chris KreiderL | |||||
| #7Range not available Mikael GranlundC | |||||
| #8Range not available Mason McTavishC | |||||
| #9Range not available Ryan PoehlingC | |||||
| #10Range not available Jacob TroubaD |
Shots for
shots a game, expected per shot
Shots against
allowed a game, expected per shot
From the video · model judgement
How they gained the zone in condensed games
Read from the league's free condensed games: entries carried in against dumped in, entries denied at the line for and against, and the rest of what the model could see. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations from the games read, not season counts.
Games read: LAK at ANA (2026010033), ANA at SJS (2026010039).
Coaching style · 2025-26
rolls four lines; does not chase matchups
How the bench was run, measured from the shift charts and the play-by-play (a mid-season coaching change is not separated). Each is set against the league median; style words appear only where the club is clearly away from it.
System group
Plays like Los Angeles Kings, Florida Panthers, Washington Capitals, Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks
Four groups found by clustering every club's shot profile for and against. The group is described only by the features that set it apart from the league; no label is invented for it.
Goal archive ·
Anaheim Ducks: every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Assistant GM
Anaheim Ducks: the front-office read
Every idea below is computed from sourced contracts, 2025–26 production, roster lanes, pick ownership and standings. Nothing is a rumour. Prices are computed guides from production and contract surplus, not market quotes.
Direction and front office
Holding
Standing pat: little trade activity.
How this GM trades: . Sunk-cost risk: watch.
Decisions that cannot wait
Most urgent
Ranked by how soon the decision is forced: offer-sheet dates, cap compliance, deadlines and sell-offs.
Tom Wilson (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Quinton Byfield (LAK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Plan for the cap you might get
Cap outlook
Sourced commitments against the announced or projected ceiling, and against a flat cap at today's (the ceiling stayed flat in 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). Unpriced contracts are not counted, so real room is smaller.
| Season | Committed | Ceiling | Room (projected) | Room (flat cap) | Needs growth | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–27 | ||||||
| 2027–28 | ||||||
| 2028–29 | ||||||
| 2029–30 |
Long, expensive contracts: Leo Carlsson ( through 2030–31: ); Cutter Gauthier ( through 2031–32: ); Jackson LaCombe ( through 2033–34: ); Pavel Mintyukov ( through 2030–31: ); Troy Terry ( through 2029–30: ); Lukas Dostal ( through 2029–30: ).
Expansion: none announced
Protection slots are worth something
The NHL has not approved or announced an expansion team or expansion draft. In June 2026 it gave the Friedkin family a six-month window to explore a second Texas team in Houston or Austin (about $3.5 billion for the fee and an arena). The Board of Governors met on September 22, 2026 without announcing a decision; any expansion would still need a vote of the Board. No expansion draft is announced. Reported, not official: a Houston or Austin team could be awarded before the end of 2026 and would begin play in 2029-30, which would put its expansion draft in June 2029. The league is also reported to be talking with at least two other groups about a 34th team. Checks here apply the rules to today's rosters and contracts as a planning scenario, not a forecast. The format is not announced either: one new club per draft (a club could face a draft in consecutive years) or two clubs in the same draft (a club could lose two players at once). Under the 2021 rules a club protects 7 forwards, 3 defencemen and 1 goalie (or 8 skaters and 1 goalie). Every no-movement clause in force must be protected and uses a slot, so its real cost is the player it pushes off.
If a draft is announced: ask a no-move player to waive for the draft, trade an exposed player now rather than lose them for nothing, or make a side deal with the expansion club to steer its pick.
Where the roster is thin
Needs
A position (centre, wing, defence pair or goal) counts as a need when most of its regulars are unsigned past this season, or when they produce below the league average for that position.
Right wing (upgrade)
- Established
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
See it coming
Offer-sheet exposure
This club's own RFAs for summer 2027: what their production is worth on the open market, which compensation band an aggressive offer would fall in, and whether the club could match with the room it has committed. The 2027–28 ceiling is not set; this uses the current ceiling.
Drew Helleson
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Nikita Nesterenko
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Players other clubs might move
Trade targets
Realistic targets, not wish lists: young players stuck behind veterans, salary a cap-strapped club has to move, rentals on selling clubs, and good contracts priced by what they are worth. Young franchise-core players and anyone with a no-move or full no-trade clause are left out.
Tom Wilson (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Quinton Byfield (LAK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Felix Unger Sorum (CAR)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
- Price guide
Fabian Lysell (BOS)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Price guide
Joshua Roy (MTL)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Latest roster move
- Price guide
Adam Gaudette (SJS)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Taylor Raddysh (NYR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Mackie Samoskevich (SEA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Jonatan Berggren (STL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Arseny Gritsyuk (NJD)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Restricted free agents, summer 2027
Offer-sheet candidates
RFAs at clubs tight on cap. Compensation depends on the offer's AAV band and must be paid in the offering club's own picks; the Carlsson offer sheet in July 2026 showed how far a club will go to match.
Matias Maccelli (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Calum Ritchie (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- Own 2027 picks held
Gabe Perreault (NYR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Trades with three or more clubs
Multi-team ideas
Chains where every club receives a player in a need lane, gives up roughly what it gets, and stays under the cap. Salary retention is used at most once per contract (the 2025 MOU bars a second retention on the same contract within 75 regular-season days) and never above 50%.
ANA → DET → CBJ
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → CBJ: Justin Faulk (sell-high, )
Gate at CBJ: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CBJ → ANA: Mathieu Olivier (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → SJS
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → SJS: Justin Faulk (sell-high, )
Gate at SJS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - SJS → ANA: Adam Gaudette (sell-high, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → PHI
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → PHI: Justin Faulk (sell-high, )
Gate at PHI: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - PHI → ANA: Tyson Foerster (sell-high, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → OTT → BOS
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → OTT: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at OTT: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - OTT → BOS: Stephen Halliday (blocked, )
Gate at BOS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - BOS → ANA: Fabian Lysell (blocked, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption). fit: not yet validated.
Ideas to start from
Trade concepts
Each is priced from the player's tier and the contract's surplus over its remaining term, then cap-checked: salary in against salary out. A shape to test, not a final price.
Concept: Felix Unger Sorum (CAR)
- Contract
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Fabian Lysell (BOS)
- Contract
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Mackie Samoskevich (SEA)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Jonatan Berggren (STL)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Sell while the price is high
Sell-high candidates
Players in their prime who produce more than their cap hit suggests, with the deal ending within two seasons: the moment their trade value peaks.
Cutter Gauthier
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Players to build around
Young players to build around
Players under 24, judged on NHL games played and five-on-five scoring rate, their prospect ranking, and what they are producing now.
Cutter Gauthier
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Beckett Sennecke
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Leo Carlsson
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Pavel Mintyukov
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Maxim Massé
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
Summer 2027
Free-agent targets
Pending UFAs (26 to 32, no extension signed) in this club's need lanes. The current cap hit is shown for reference, not as an estimate of the next contract.
Alex DeBrincat (DET)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Kirill Marchenko (CBJ)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
League context
Where the market is going
Price of production at signing: cap hit per point of pace in the season before the deal, from the sourced contract ledger. Samples depend on how many deals are priced.
The ledger holds contracts still active in 2026-27, so one- and two-year deals signed in 2024 are missing from the 2024 column. Segments with different term mixes are therefore not comparable here; the term-matched reading is the pricing study on the integrity page.
Goalies: by raw save percentage, a goalie's season after changing teams is almost unrelated to the one before (correlation across moves, vs for goalies who stayed). Adjusted for shot quality the gap disappears ( stayed vs moved): the system changes the shots a goalie faces, so judge goalies on goals saved above expected. of established-goalie trades returned a first-round pick against for productive skaters ( goalie trades: a small sample).
Largest cap hits signed in summer 2026: Leo Carlsson (), Connor Bedard (), Cutter Gauthier (), Pavel Dorofeyev (), Alex Tuch ().
Ask the Anaheim Ducks assistant GM
Answers use only the ideas above, the club's contracts and trades, and the CBA, and cite each one. If the facts do not support an answer, it says so.
GM horizon
Pat Verbeek: 4.6 years in
How long GMs have lasted since 1967, and what that implies for a GM who has served this long. A GM who expects to be gone soon has a reason to buy today; this is the base rate, not a read on him.
Win-now premium
Anaheim Ducks: what deadline rentals cost
A rental is a pending unrestricted free agent bought between January 1 and the deadline. Its price is the pick value sent, in expected career NHL games. Part of a price can be rational: a win is worth more to a club on the playoff line. This splits the price above the league mean into what the standings on the trade date explain and what they do not.
| Date | Rental | GM | Picks sent | Price | Win value | Vs mean | Not explained |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-24 | Ville Husso | Pat Verbeek | none + 1 player (not valued) | −62 | −62 |
| GM | Rentals (league-wide) | Mean price | Not explained: mean | 25th to 75th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pat Verbeek | 1 | Not on file (fewer than 5 rentals (1)) | ||
Win value is the rise in the club's chance of reaching the playoff line from one more win, in percentage points. Units are expected career games of the picks sent; a price in cap-share dollars needs the Worth model on rentals, which is not adopted. Not netted: the rental's quality, salary retained by the seller, and players or prospects sent. A rental's expiry is quoted from the trade's NHL.com story, or from the contract archive where the story is silent (an archive expiry can be a restricted one).
Farm-system consensus · front-office read
The system should create useful NHL players, but its stars and organizational fit still decide the ceiling.
- 01Separate near-term graduates from long-horizon bets.
- 02Find the position where opportunity is blocked or missing.
- 03Move a future only when the playoff gain survives the downside case.
Draft picks · 2027–2029
Anaheim Ducks picks
Every round for the next three drafts: the club's own picks, picks it has acquired, and picks it has traded away, with any conditions. "Own" means the pick was checked against the club's trades since 2023; "Own, unconfirmed" means no trade is on record but that check has not been done.
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Anaheim Ducks roster moves
Waivers, claims, injured-reserve placements, assignments to the minors and signings in the last 45 days, as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). Facts, not inferences: no cause is read into an injured-reserve placement, and what each move does to the cap lives on the cap table.
Ryan Poehling
Drew Helleson
Roger McQueen
Travis Mitchell
Roger McQueen
Noah Warren
Travis Mitchell
Tristan Luneau
Cruz Lucius
Drew Helleson
Tomas Suchanek
Marcus Nordmark
Drew Elliott
Cruz Lucius
Troy Terry
Cruz Lucius
Tristan Luneau
Troy Terry
Ian Moore
Laurent Brossoit
Travis Mitchell
Noah Warren
Stian Solberg
Nico Myatovic
Jett Woo
Corey Schueneman
James Hamblin
Nathan Gaucher
Sean Farrell
Anton Wahlberg
Lucas Pettersson
Cruz Lucius
Jayden Kurtz
Herman Traff
Konnor Smith
Yegor Sidorov
Ethan Procyszyn
Coulson Pitre
Damian Clara
Matt Basgall
Drew Elliott
Matt Basgall
Injury listings · as of 2026-10-18
Anaheim Ducks injury listings
What the club has published (Sportradar NHL API v7, league injuries feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)): status, body area, listed-since and expected-return dates. CapOrCup infers no cause from a listing and keeps its own availability measure, games not dressed, separate.
Waiver wire · last 3 league days
Placed on waivers, league-wide
Every player any club placed on waivers in the last three league days, with what the feed shows next: claimed, cleared to the minors, or nothing yet. A claim costs no assets, only a roster spot and the whole contract, and claiming priority follows the standings.
Jacob Bernard-Docker
Aatu Raty
Alex Barre-Boulet
Fit components (description)
Who fits here: fit: not yet validated
No ranking of who fits Anaheim Ducks is shown until the move backtest passes. What follows describes how Anaheim Ducks plays and is coached, and the roster rules any addition must clear. The lane-based matchmaker stays on the Assistant GM.
Head coach: , in charge since 2025-10-09 (85 regular-season games on file). Assistants: Not on file.
How this staff has used players (2025-26), against what position and prior minutes predict:
Contracts counted toward the 50 limit: . Active roster for the 23-man limit: Not on file.
as of 2026-04-16
Anaheim Ducks
trades
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Pittsburgh Penguins receive
GM: Kyle Dubas
- Future considerations
Montréal Canadiens receive
GM: Kent Hughes
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Carolina Hurricanes receive
GM: Eric Tulsky
- Kyle Masters
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Noah Philp
Florida Panthers receive
GM: Bill Zito
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Carolina Hurricanes receive
GM: Eric Tulsky
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Kyle Masters
- 2026 6th-round pick ()
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- 2026 1st-round pick ()
Vegas Golden Knights receive
GM: Kelly McCrimmon
- 2026 1st-round pick ()
- 2026 4th-round pick ()
St. Louis Blues receive
GM: Doug Armstrong
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- 2026 1st-round pick ()
- 2026 1st-round pick
Buffalo Sabres receive
GM: Jarmo Kekalainen
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Anton Wahlberg
- 2026 2nd-round pick ()
Calgary Flames receive
GM: Craig Conroy
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- 2027 7th-round pick · now back with CGY
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Washington Capitals receive
GM: Chris Patrick
- 2026 1st-round pick · conditional
- 2027 3rd-round pick · now owned by WSH
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Boston Bruins receive
GM: Don Sweeney
- 2026 4th-round pick
Detroit Red Wings receive
GM: Steve Yzerman
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Petr Mrazek
- 2026 4th-round pick
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now owned by ANA
Philadelphia Flyers receive
GM: Daniel Briere
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Ryan Poehling
- 2025 2nd-round pick
- 2026 4th-round pick
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Chris Kreider
- 2025 4th-round pick
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- Carey Terrance
- 2025 3rd-round pick
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Oliver Kylington
New York Islanders receive
GM: Lou Lamoriello
- Future considerations
New Jersey Devils receive
GM: Tom Fitzgerald
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Herman Traff
- 2025 2nd-round pick
Salary retained:
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Detroit Red Wings receive
GM: Steve Yzerman
- Future considerations
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Justin Bailey
San Jose Sharks receive
GM: Mike Grier
- Pavol Regenda
St. Louis Blues receive
GM: Doug Armstrong
- Cam Fowler
- 2027 4th-round pick · now back with ANA
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
- Jeremie Biakabutuka
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now back with STL
Salary retained:
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- Urho Vaakanainen
- 2025 4th-round pick
How the ledger is built
- 2024–25 onward: parsed from NHL.com's season trade pages, which list every trade. Each card links to the NHL.com announcement.
- 2019–20 to 2023–24: parsed from NHL.com trade announcements tagged to a club. Some trades are missing; those seasons are marked partial.
- "Details incomplete" means the announcement did not state one side; the original sentence is shown instead of a guess.
- Picks in 2027–2029 show their current owner from the verified pick ledger.
Statistical schedule · 2026-27 · as of 2026-10-18
Anaheim Ducks: difficulty rank #31Range not available
Every game priced by the model with the club's rest state. Difficulty averages four league ranks (opponents , rest , travel , back-to-backs ); expected points is the model's own forecast and depends on the club as much as the schedule. League table on the schedule page.
By month: 2026-10: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-11: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-12: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-01: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-02: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-03: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-04: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back.
Game by game
games
Price is the model's chance for this club at the morning of the game with rest known; it moves when rosters are published. The spot names what the schedule did to the club that night.