{"id":787840,"date":"2026-07-27T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787840\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:19:07","slug":"canadiens-ducks-complete-minor-swap-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787840\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens, Ducks Complete Minor Swap \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/news\/ducks-acquire-farrell-from-montreal-for-pastujov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they have acquired forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/farrese01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sean Farrell\u00a0<\/a>from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/512165\/sasha-pastujov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sasha Pastujov<\/a>. Both players remain without contracts for the 2026-27 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Farrell, 24, used to be an intriguing prospect for the Canadiens. Montreal drafted him from the USHL\u2019s Chicago Steel with the 124th overall pick of the 2020 NHL Draft. Farrell dominated in the USHL in his post-draft season, scoring 29 goals and 101 points in 53 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Milton, MA native continued his development at Harvard University. Farrell became an integral part of a resurgent Crimson team, scoring 30 goals and\u00a0 81 points in 58 games, helping Harvard reach back-to-back ECAC Hockey championships and two trips to the National Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, apart from a brief six-game period after signing his entry-level contract, Farrell has received few opportunities with the Canadiens and wasn\u2019t likely to anytime soon. Still, he\u2019s been a solid performer with the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket, scoring 46 goals and 125 points in 186 career games.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it\u2019s been much of the same for Pastujov. He was drafted slightly higher than Farrell, going to the Ducks with the 66th overall pick of the 2021 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he\u2019s had nearly identical production to Farrell at the AHL level. In the last three years, outside of a brief stint in the ECHL, Pastujov has played for the AHL\u2019s San Diego Gulls, scoring 48 goals and 125 points in 160 games. Pastujov arguably has a slightly higher offensive ceiling than Farrell, but both players could have used a fresh start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks announced that they have acquired forward\u00a0Sean Farrell\u00a0from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for forward\u00a0Sasha Pastujov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4830,1787,385,335080,335081,99,6182],"class_list":["post-787840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-sasha-pastujov","tag-sean-farrell","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}