With no chance of the team exercising their option on Marc-Andre Bergeron, acquired last season at the deadline as a depth player for a 3rd round draft choice, Brian Burke has found a taker in the Minnesota Wild. Coming back from the Wild is a 2009 3rd-round draft pick, essentially meaning the pickup of Bergeron [...]

Few rumors going around the net these days:
Chicago GM Dale Tallon has expressed an interest in acquiring an older defenseman with some offensive upside to mentor his young players. Francois Beauchemin’s name is one that has been bandied about. It’s unknown if Burke is seeking to move Beauchemin due to him struggling this year, but [...]

Anaheim has sent young right wing Matt Keith to the Islanders in exchange for right wing Darryl Bootland. Both players are expected to report to their new teams’ AHL affiliates.
Bootland is a depth player, who brings energy and fighting to the team but not a lot else.

Brian Burke wasted no time in making a move after the NHL trade freeze, sending depth defenseman Shane Hnidy over to Boston along with a sixth-round draft pick for forward Brandon Bochenski.
Bochenski, once a promising Ottawa prospect, has seen his stock fallen after a solid year with the Bruins last season. Playing in 20 games [...]

Brian Burke surprised many fans today, dealing center Andy McDonald to the St.Louis Blues for veteran Doug Weight. While everyone was expecting a move, needed to clear tag space before Scott Niedermayer could return to the lineup, McDonald was not among the rumored names to be dealt (Sean O’Donnell, Mathieu Schneider and Todd Marchant topping [...]

This is pure rumors and speculation people, not from any reliable sources, so do take it with a grain of salt.
Apparently, Brian Burke is waiting on Scott Niedermayer’s decision before he begins negotiations with Corey Perry. If Scott returns and then feels up to finishing out his contract next season, the Ducks will have to [...]

After speculation that something might be brewing on the trade front between Anaheim and Washington, Burke pulled the trigger in acquiring C Brian Sutherby for a 2009 second-round draft pick.
Drafted 26th overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft (by Washington), Sutherby has failed to live up to expectations and lost his spot to younger Caps’ [...]

With Jonas Hiller being recalled today and no announced injuries to either Jean-Sebastien Giguere or Ilya Bryzgalov, it is heavily being rumored that Ducks’ GM Brian Burke has finally found a deal he likes for backup Bryzgalov.
Toronto and Tampa Bay have been rumored, but unless they can get rid of one of their own overpriced [...]

The Ducks have sent left-winger Clay Wilson and depth defenseman Aaron Rome today to the Blue Jackets for center Geoff Platt. Platt will play with the Portland Pirates while Rome and Wilson will report to the Syracuse Crunch.
Bruno St-Jacques was also re-acquired for future considerations and will report to Portland. St-Jacques has played one game [...]

There have been two Ryan Getzlaf rumors circling the net these days, but I’d not put much stock in the first one.
Rumors out of Toronto suggest Leaf management has a hard-on for Ducks C Ryan Getzlaf, in that he’d bring a lot of missing qualities to a lackluster Leafs squad. This much I can believe. [...]

First of all, this rumor comes from my own friend, a Caps fan who often follows the team on road games and hangs with some Washington players. It shouldn’t be taken as any more than that; my friend wouldn’t qualify as any kind of professional source. While sharing drinks with Matt Pettinger, he was told [...]

On Monday, Anaheim completed a deal with the Boston Bruins that saw them acquire energetic centre Mark Mowers in exchange for prospect D men Brett Skinner and Nathan Saunders.
Expected to play a fourth-line or depth role with the club, Mowers can also play wing and can be counted on for his enthusiasm and energy. Mowers [...]

I am rather shocked (as I’m sure most Ducks fans are) at a new rumor reported by the infamous hockey blogger known as Eklund. You can read it for yourself here: http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1
There are really two trains of thought on this topic. The first, is that Teemu is upset about Burke signing Todd Bertuzzi and possibly [...]

There have been strong rumors and indications that Niedermayer was to announce his retirement on July 1st. However at seemingly the last moment, no announcement was made.
Perhaps he is still considering a run to repeat as Cup champions? Maybe his brother has convinced him to keep playing with him? Did Burke ask him to return?
Everything [...]

Having no relation to action star Steven Segal, Brandon is a gritty player in the Ducks’ mold. He was acquired from the Nashville Predators for future considerations. The move is to add another character player to bolster the Ducks’ minor-league team the Portland Pirates. Segal was ranked at the bottom of the Preds’ top 20 [...]