{"id":459225,"date":"2026-09-10T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:32:26","slug":"ducks-place-kreider-on-waivers-to-terminate-his-contract-in-a-salary-cap-saving-move-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459225\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks place Kreider on waivers to terminate his contract in a salary cap-saving move, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; Anaheim Ducks left wing Chris Kreider skates during an NHL hockey game against the Seattle Kraken, Feb. 3, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo\/Kyusung Gong, File)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 9, 2026 | 12:27 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Anaheim Ducks placed veteran forward Chris Kreider on waivers in the first step to terminate his contract, a person with knowledge of the move confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the Ducks have not announced the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Kreider is a 14-year NHL veteran who completed his first season in Anaheim and was entering the final year of his contract. By terminating the contract, the Ducks will free up $6.5 million in salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim\u2019s cap situation was handcuffed after the team re-signed Leo Carlsson by matching the Philadelphia Flyers\u2019 five-year, $90 million offer sheet this summer. The team also re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ducks-pavel-mintyukov-b7b2ffe3a561c9cdfea2e3a2263b1d64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Mintyukov<\/a> to a five-year, $36 million contract this summer, while Cutter Gauthier remains unsigned coming off a 41-goal season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE &#8211; Anaheim Ducks left wing Chris Kreider skates during an NHL hockey game against the Seattle Kraken,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-459225","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\/459225","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=459225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}