{"id":376914,"date":"2026-06-27T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376914\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:47:09","slug":"ducks-gm-pat-verbeek-on-mctavish-zellweger-trades-2026-draft-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376914\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks GM Pat Verbeek on McTavish\/Zellweger Trades, 2026 Draft &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it certainly gives us a lot of flexibility in regards to Leo and Cutter. It certainly allows us to kind of be more open-minded. But, at the same time, we want to keep pushing ahead and address some spots where we can make improvements in our roster. So, I guess it boiled down to opportunity for the players that we wanted to draft, as well as allowing us to have flexibility. So, I think (Nikita) Klepov, he might have a chance to fast-track to the NHL, so that was kind of another scenario that went into the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeah, it certainly gives us a lot of flexibility in regards to Leo and Cutter. It certainly allows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,1718,1716,1721,16534,14932],"class_list":["post-376914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-mason-mctavish","tag-olen-zellweger","tag-pat-verbeek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376914","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=376914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}