{"id":184148,"date":"2026-02-19T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184148\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:00:12","slug":"ducks-reassign-ian-moore-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184148\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Reassign Ian Moore \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/news\/ducks-assign-moore-to-san-diego\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to a team announcement<\/a>, the Anaheim Ducks have reassigned defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mooreia01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-18_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ian Moore<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s San Diego Gulls. It\u2019ll be Moore\u2019s first stint in the AHL since the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not expected to be a long-term demotion for Moore. Simply put, the move to AHL San Diego will allow the 24-year-old defenseman to play in as many as three games before the Ducks return to action against the Edmonton Oilers next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it won\u2019t be an unfamiliar environment for Moore. The former captain of Harvard University played nine games for the Gulls last year to close out the regular season, scoring one goal and five points. He has only registered one AHL contest this season.<\/p>\n<p>Although he didn\u2019t crack Anaheim\u2019s roster out of training camp, he\u2019s been with the Ducks for much of the 2025-26 campaign. He\u2019s scored two goals and nine points in 41 games, averaging 14:10 of ice time per night. He\u2019s shown quality possession metrics for a rookie, managing a 53.5% CorsiFor% at even strength.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s rise as a capable NHL defenseman has sparked mixed feelings in Orange County. His play at the beginning of the year led to a loss of ice time for defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mintypa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-18_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pavel Mintyukov<\/a>, who even <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/11\/ducks-pavel-mintyukov-potentially-seeking-trade.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">considered requesting<\/a> a trade in late November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a team announcement, the Anaheim Ducks have reassigned defenseman Ian Moore to the AHL\u2019s San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,10358,2722],"class_list":{"0":"post-184148","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-ian-moore","13":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184148","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=184148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}