{"id":437557,"date":"2026-08-19T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437557\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:26:08","slug":"anaheim-ducks-acquire-forward-cruz-lucius-from-pittsburgh-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437557\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks acquire forward Cruz Lucius from Pittsburgh Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> have acquired forward Cruz Lucius from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in exchange for future considerations, it was announced Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 22-year-old is the brother of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> first-rounder Chaz Lucius. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cruz Lucius played last season at Arizona State University in the NCAA, tallying 15 goals and 31 assists for 46 points in 36 games. It was the second-highest season point total in program history. He had 10 points in 19 games the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lucius played two seasons with the Sun Devils after playing two prior years with the Wisconsin Badgers, where he began his collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was drafted in the fourth round (No. 124 overall) by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in 2022 and was one of many players traded to Pittsburgh in a deal involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-guentzel\/8477404\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-guentzel\/8477404\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Guentzel<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks have acquired forward Cruz Lucius from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for future considerations, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6014,6013,6015],"class_list":["post-437557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-ducks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-24","tag-apple-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437557","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=437557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}