AnaheimDucks.com
In any big acquisition, there is always inherent risk involved, but the Ducks couldn’t be happier with what they got in Ryan Kesler over the past year.
In one of the higher-profile moves of the 2014 offseason, Anaheim acquired the veteran center from the Vancouver Canucks (along with a third-round pick in the 2015 NHL Draft) in exchange for for center Nick Bonino, defenseman Luca Sbisa and the Ducks’ first-round and third-round picks in the 2014 NHL Draft. Kesler needed to waive his no-trade clause to allow the deal to go through, and despite the fact he had spent all 10 of his NHL seasons in Vancouver, he knew he wanted to be a Duck.