{"id":931958,"date":"2026-10-13T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931958\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:04:11","slug":"nhl-status-report-mcqueen-to-make-nhl-debut-for-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931958\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: McQueen to make NHL debut for Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/roger-mcqueen-8485400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger McQueen<\/a> will make his NHL debut for the Ducks against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday (9:45 p.m. ET; Prime Video, KCOP-13, SNW). The No. 10 pick by Anaheim in the 2025 NHL Draft, McQueen was recalled from San Diego of the American Hockey League after leading the team with three goals in four AHL games. The 20-year-old forward, who signed his entry-level contract with the Ducks on April 18, practiced on the third line between Frank\u00a0Vatrano and A.J. Greer. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great day, so very excited,&#8221; McQueen said. &#8220;Kind of waited for this moment for a while, so super excited. Obviously, just trying to get the win and just enjoy it. You only get this once, so it&#8217;s one of those things you want to enjoy.&#8221; &#8230; Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cutter-gauthier-8483445\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cutter Gauthier<\/a> will miss his first game of the season with an upper-body injury. He has two goals this season and led Anaheim with 41 in 2025-26.\u00a0Gauthier participated in drills at the start of practice Monday but left \u00a0before line rushes. &#8220;We tried it yesterday in practice, but not a go,&#8221; coach Joel Quenneville said. &#8230; Forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-poehling-8480068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Poehling<\/a> (MCL sprain) was placed on injured reserve and will be out 6-8 weeks. He has two points (one goal, one assist) in five games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Roger McQueen will make his NHL debut for the Ducks against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-931958","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\/931958","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=931958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}