{"id":136516,"date":"2026-01-16T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136516\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:52:06","slug":"anaheim-ducks-acquire-f-viel-from-boston-bruins-for-fourth-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136516\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks acquire F Viel from Boston Bruins for fourth-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> acquired forward Jeffrey Viel from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> on Friday in exchange for a fourth-round pick in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pick transferred will be the earlier of Anaheim\u2019s two fourth-round selections, originally acquired from Detroit and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Viel, 28, is without a point in 10 games with the Bruins this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Undrafted in the NHL, Viel has appeared in 64 career NHL games with Boston and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>, tallying three goals and two assists for five points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Rimouski, Quebec native was originally signed by San Jose as a free agent in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After making the trade, the Bruins recalled defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/billy-sweezey\/8482399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/billy-sweezey\/8482399\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Sweezey<\/a> from the AHL\u2019s Providence Bruins on an emergency basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks acquired forward Jeffrey Viel from the Boston Bruins on Friday in exchange for a fourth-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6014,6013,69492],"class_list":["post-136516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-ducks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-24","tag-apple-news","tag-boston-bruins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136516","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=136516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}