{"id":763881,"date":"2026-06-27T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763881\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:38:08","slug":"ducks-trade-mason-mctavish-to-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763881\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks trade Mason McTavish to Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim traded the 23-year-old forward to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"st-louis-blues\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>, commissioner Gary Bettman announced at the NHL Draft on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks get the Nos. 15 and 29 picks in the first round of this year&#8217;s draft in return. Anaheim took Saginaw Spirit winger Nikita Klepov, the OHL&#8217;s leading scorer last season, with the No. 15 pick minutes after making the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The first year of McTavish\u2019s six-year deal ($7 million cap hit) with the Ducks did not go according to plan. McTavish fell out of favour with new coach Joel Quenneville, who slashed his ice time from 16:53 to 15:19 per game and scratched him at points during the team\u2019s first playoff appearance in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the season with 17 goals and 24 assists in 75 games last season, a drop from the 22 goals and 30 assists he put up a year earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, McTavish will be hoping a fresh start in St. Louis will help him get back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim traded the 23-year-old forward to the St. Louis Blues, commissioner Gary Bettman announced at the NHL Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-763881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}