{"id":414520,"date":"2026-01-18T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414520\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:42:14","slug":"ducks-acquire-jeffrey-viel-from-bruins-in-trade-for-4th-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414520\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks acquire Jeffrey Viel from Bruins in trade for 4th-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Anaheim Ducks have acquired forward Jeffrey Viel from the Boston Bruins in a trade for a fourth-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins will get either Detroit\u2019s pick or Philadelphia\u2019s pick \u2014 whichever is better \u2014 in the fourth round of the upcoming draft in the deal announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Viel is scoreless with 30 penalty minutes in 10 games this season for Boston, and he hasn\u2019t scored an NHL point since the 2021-22 season with San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>The physical forward has spent most of his professional career in the AHL, but has five points and 183 penalty minutes in 64 career NHL games with the Bruins and Sharks. He scored 40 points for the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 AHL affiliate in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks already have physical forward Ross Johnson on their roster. The veteran leads Anaheim with 83 penalty minutes while also scoring a career-high 12 points in 44 games.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NHL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Anaheim Ducks have acquired forward Jeffrey Viel from the Boston Bruins in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,95,2617,599,1739,5,51996,1805,4,292,1467,48216,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-414520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-boston-bruins","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-ducks","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-jeffrey-truchon-viel","17":"tag-massachusetts","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nhl-hockey","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-ross-johnson","22":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115917104386785474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}