{"id":379770,"date":"2026-06-29T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379770\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:23:09","slug":"nhl-trade-the-butcher-is-back-florida-panthers-bring-back-radko-gudas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379770\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Trade: \u2018The Butcher\u2019 is Back, Florida Panthers Bring Back Radko Gudas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE \u2014 The Florida Panthers got a head start on free agency Monday by trading the rights to A.J. Greer to Anaheim for the negotiating rights to Radko Gudas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Greer and Gudas will be free agents Wednesday at noon unless they sign with their new teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the Panthers are Gudas\u2019 old team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gudas, a bruising defenseman known affectionately as \u2018The Butcher,\u2019 spent three seasons with the Panthers from 2021-23 before leaving for the Ducks in free agency after Florida\u2019s run to the 2023 Stanley Cup Final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ducks made Gudas their captain not long after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week at FHN, we looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/where-radko-gudas-would-fit-if-he-returned-to-the-florida-panthers\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/where-radko-gudas-would-fit-if-he-returned-to-the-florida-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where Gudas would fit<\/a> if he decided to return to the Panthers \u2014 and it is doubtful the team would make this deal if they did not think something was going to get done. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Gudas were to sign, the Panthers would have seven NHL defenseman under contract; Donovan Sebrango needs a contract as a restricted free agent although there is doubt now that the Panthers make him an offer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida already has other young defensemen in the system who could move up if needed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Panthers could also be trading one of their other six defensemen with Niko Mikkola\u2019s name coming up in various trade scenarios before the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>ON DECK: FLORIDA PANTHERS\u00a0OFFSEASON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE \u2014 The Florida Panthers got a head start on free agency Monday by trading the rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[21276,163,824,165,164,2065,11692,5429],"class_list":["post-379770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-aj-greer","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-nhl-trade","tag-radko-gudas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379770","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=379770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}