The Anaheim Ducks had a standout season in 2025-26 and made headlines with their emerging young superstars, last-minute comebacks, and long-awaited playoff run. While the team is filled with impressive talent \u2014 Cutter Gauthier, Beckett Sennecke, and Chris Kreider, to name a few \u2014 there are a handful of players who are not living up to their potential and expectations.<\/p>\n
Keeping these players on the roster is taking up valuable cap space that could be used to make the strategic, successful moves that general manager Pat Verbeek is known for. Whether they\u2019ve aged out of the sport, are not performing at the same clip they once were, or would be more suited for another organization, here are three players that the Ducks could benefit from moving on from this offseason. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRadko Gudas<\/p>\n
Trading a captain is always a bit of a controversial move, but it is time for the Ducks to let go of defenseman Radko Gudas<\/a>. He became captain of the team in 2024<\/a> after joining the club in the 2023-24 season. Fans were a bit surprised by the move, since Gudas was so new to the franchise. However, he grew into his role quickly and has served his captaincy well. While his leadership is valued in the organization, his on-ice skills have fallen short.<\/p>\n This season, the defenseman missed a good chunk of games due to an injury. He played just 56 games in the regular season and only one in the postseason. In those games, he tallied just two goals and 11 assists. While Gudas has never been a high-scoring blueliner, it is disappointing that he is unable to play a more well-rounded game after 14 seasons in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks had a standout season in 2025-26 and made headlines with their emerging young superstars, last-minute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-340527","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\/340527","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=340527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}