The Ducks have acquired left wing Jeffrey Viel from the Boston Bruins for a 2026 fourth-round draft pick. Boston will receive the better of either Detroit’s 2026 fourth-round pick or Philadelphia’s 2026 fourth-round pick.<\/p>\n
Viel, 28 (1\/28\/97), has appeared in 10 games with Boston in 2025-26, recording 20 penalty minutes (PIM). The 6-1, 214-pound forward has scored 3-2=5 points with 183 penalty minutes (PIM) in 64 career NHL games with Boston (2024-26) and San Jose (2020-23). He split the 2024-25 season between Boston and the Providence Bruins, appearing in five NHL games with the Bruins and earning 13-24=37 points with a +14 rating and 148 PIM in 68 American Hockey League (AHL) games.<\/p>\n
A native of Rimouski, Quebec, Viel has register 75-95=170 points with 688 PIM in 349 career AHL games with Providence, Manitoba and San Jose, setting an AHL career high in points (17-23=40) in 69 games with Manitoba in 2023-24. Viel earned 115-81=196 points with a +12 rating and 488 PIM in 259 Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) games with Sherbrooke (2013-14) and Acadia-Bathurst (2014-18). He won the 2018 QMJHL Championship with Acadia-Bathurst registering a career-high 14-9=23 points in 20 playoff contests to earn QMJHL Playoffs MVP. He also helped the club win the 2018 CHL Memorial Cup and was named to the 2018 Memorial Cup All-Star team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks have acquired left wing Jeffrey Viel from the Boston Bruins for a 2026 fourth-round draft pick.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-137934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137934","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=137934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}