{"id":796776,"date":"2026-08-01T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796776\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:53:08","slug":"inside-look-at-anaheim-ducks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796776\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside look at Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each are expected to remain big pieces of the puzzle for the Ducks, especially Carlsson. The No. 2 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, Carlsson signed a five-year, $90 million offer sheet ($18 million average annual value) with the Philadelphia Flyers as a restricted free agent July 3, which Anaheim matched July 9.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think from the day that we drafted him, we viewed him as a cornerstone piece of our rebuild, and that hasn’t changed,” Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek said. “We feel that Leo at some point, and I wouldn’t say next year but I think over the course of this contract, is going to show the elite player that he is, and it’s going to give us great reasons for why we matched this offer.”<\/p>\n

Carlsson knows what is expected of him, too, and the 21-year-old is hoping to build on last season and help Anaheim become a perennial contender.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to grow as a player too,” he said. “I’ve done that every year so far. Trying to get away from these slumps that I’m having in seasons, trying to stay at the highest level I can be all year round. It’s going to be hard, but that’s my goal too.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Carlsson, the Ducks had another notable addition, acquiring forward A.J. Greer<\/a>\u00a0in a trade with the Florida Panthers on June 29 and and then signing him to a four-year contract July 1<\/a>. A Stanley Cup winner with the Panthers in 2025, Greer brings championship experience and is hoping to expand his offensive role. The 29-year-old had NHL career-bests last season with 17 goals and 32 points in 78 games last season.<\/p>\n

“It’s an amazing opportunity for me. I think given the situation, I’m going to be putting myself in a position where I can establish myself as a top-nine guy,” Greer said. “I knew that (the Ducks) trading for my rights and wanting to be aggressive and wanting to sign me meant that there was going to be a big opportunity for me to be a standout player for this team and help this team trend in the right direction and hopefully become a Stanley Cup champion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each are expected to remain big pieces of the puzzle for the Ducks, especially Carlsson. The No. 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-796776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796776","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=796776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}