{"id":136486,"date":"2026-01-16T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:22:08","slug":"anaheim-ducks-acquire-jeffrey-viel-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136486\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Acquire Jeffrey Viel \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a team announcement<\/a>, the Boston Bruins have traded bottom-six forward Jeffrey Viel<\/a> to the Anaheim Ducks for a conditional 2026 fourth-round pick. The Ducks originally had the Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers\u2019 fourth-round picks for the upcoming draft, and the highest one will go to Boston.<\/p>\n

Viel, 28, had spent the last two years in the Bruins organization after signing a two-year, $1.55MM contract with the team ahead of the 2024-25 season. He spent much of last season with the AHL\u2019s Providence Bruins, scoring 13 goals and 37 points in 68 games with a +14 rating. Additionally, he was again one of the most penalized forwards in the league, finishing with 148 PIMs.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s been the status quo for Viel throughout his professional career. Since the 2018-19 campaign, with the AHL\u2019s San Jose Barracuda, Viel has recorded 75 goals and 170 points in 349 AHL games with 688 PIMs. It averages out to nearly one minor penalty per game.<\/p>\n

Instead of beginning this season in the AHL, Viel cracked Boston\u2019s opening night roster as the team was looking to become more hard-nosed. Still, he\u2019s been a healthy scratch most nights, going scoreless across 10 games, averaging 9:30 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the Ducks utilize Viel in their lineup, if at all. The team already has a comparable forward in Ross Johnston<\/a>, though Johnston offers more offensive upside, at least this season. There\u2019s certainly a chance they will send Viel to the AHL\u2019s San Diego Gulls, where he would usurp Travis Howe<\/a> as the team\u2019s \u201ctough guy,\u201d given that he could also be a reliable secondary scorer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Bruins had an opening on their roster after sending Viel to Orange County. Moving quickly, Boston announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve recalled defenseman Billy Sweezey<\/a> from AHL Providence.<\/p>\n

Sweezey, a native of Massachusetts, is in his second year with the Bruins organization. He\u2019s already surpassed his scoring totals last year, starting with one goal and 11 points in 34 games to start the year with a +22 rating. Sweezey\u2019s recall is likely linked to the status of Andrew Peeke<\/a>, who left Boston\u2019s game last night due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a team announcement, the Boston Bruins have traded bottom-six forward Jeffrey Viel to the Anaheim Ducks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,69468,2063,37613,46268,2722],"class_list":{"0":"post-136486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-billy-sweezey","13":"tag-boston-bruins","14":"tag-jeffrey-viel","15":"tag-newsstand","16":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}