{"id":460557,"date":"2026-09-11T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460557\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:28:54","slug":"7-free-agent-landing-spots-for-chris-kreider-after-being-waived-by-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460557\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Free-Agent Landing Spots for Chris Kreider After Being Waived by Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Business in the NHL picked up in a big way on Wednesday when the Anaheim Ducks placed Chris Kreider on waivers for contract termination. The Ducks need to get RFA Cutter Gauthier re-signed, and ending Kreider&#8217;s contract frees up $6.5 million in cap space to make that happen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Kreider potentially gets the chance to sign somewhere new (if he isn&#8217;t claimed on waivers, that is), and he put up 22 goals and 28 assists last season in 75 games, plus another seven points in 12 playoff games. At 35 years old, he&#8217;s older, but he&#8217;s still got game, and teams in need of a guy who menaces goalies with his presence around the net and ability to score on the power play will be in demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">There are enough teams that could use a player with Kreider&#8217;s skill set, but as Elliotte Friedman <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/ducks-kreider-expected-to-agree-to-waivers-for-contract-termination\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shared<\/a>, he would like to go back East to be closer to family. We&#8217;ve picked out a handful of teams that could be players for the former 50-goal scorer and the reasons why they&#8217;d be in the hunt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business in the NHL picked up in a big way on Wednesday when the Anaheim Ducks placed Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-460557","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\/460557","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=460557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}