ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Anaheim Ducks wrapped up two of their three remaining restricted free agents to two-year deals over the weekend, nearly finalizing all of their summer business and setting up a healthy competition for the last spots in Anaheim’s forward ranks.

The Ducks announced that forward Sam Colangelo and center Tim Washe signed two-year deals on Monday, with the first year as a two-way contract and the second year as a one-way deal.

Two-way means the contracts pay different rates in the NHL and minor leagues, whereas one-way means the same money whether with the Ducks or the San Diego Gulls.

Colangelo earns a $850,000 cap hit, with an NHL salary of $850,000 and minor league salary of $375,000 in the first year and a salary of $850,000in the second year, according to PuckPedia.

Washe’s deal comes in at a $812,500 cap hit, with an NHL salary of $775,000 and minor league salary of $125,000 in the first year and a salary of $850,000 in the second year.

Colangelo netted 10 goals in 32 games in his proper Ducks rookie season with his year being split between Anaheim and AHL San Diego. In 40 games with the Gulls, the 2020 second-round pick potted 22 goals with 40 points.

“I think I’ve grown a lot this year,” Colangelo said in April. “The biggest thing I’ve gotten better at is my defensive play. It’s still a work in progress, especially playing against the best players in the world. Just playing through bodies, using my size to my advantage, finishing checks.”

The 23-year-old Massachusetts native scored nine goals in his final 18 games of the season in his third call-up to the Ducks, showing the former Western Michigan Bronco’s promise as a productive complementary bottom-six forward.

“I loved it down there (in San Diego). As much as it sucks when you get sent down, I think it was needed,” Colangelo said. “When you’re playing more minutes, you get more reps at it. The more reps you get at it, that’s like anything in life, the better you’ll get at it.”

“Hopefully I never go back,” Colangelo laughed, “but I really enjoyed it.”

Washe signed with the Ducks as an undrafted college free agent in April just days after helping lead Western Michigan to the 2025 NCAA championship.

The 23-year-old Detroit native played in Anaheim’s final two games of the season with 15:28 total ice time and won four of eight face-offs taken. Washe registered four hits and two shots on goal.

“It came down to a lot of things,” Washe said at development camp last month of choosing Anaheim as a college free agent. “Great area. Great group of guys. A lot of forwards younger and around my age. Seemed like that’d be a good fit. Seemed like they needed a center, and just try my best to make that fit and make the team.”

       

Washe will be in the mix for the third- or fourth-line center spot for the Ducks, depending on how new head coach Joel Quenneville’s line-up shakes out in training camp next month.

If Granlund drops into the third-line center role, it will be a three-way fight for the fourth-line center spot.

Anaheim’s lone remaining unsigned RFA is forward Mason McTavish.

Despite plenty of rumors floating around social media, there has been no public movement on McTavish’s situation, and as the calendar flips to August, the baseless speculation has tamped down a bit.

There is confidence a deal will be struck between the Ducks and McTavish before training camp begins next month. Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek has alluded to McTavish being the team’s No. 2 center of the future behind Leo Carlsson, and McTavish has said he wants to stay in Anaheim.

It’s the Ducks’ last bit of business for the summer, and then the push to end a seven-year playoff drought can begin.