gold star for USAHOF

49. Dave Karpa

Dave Karpa is arguably the only player to be traded from the Quebec Nordiques in Anaheim's worth discussing.

48. Pavel Trnka

Pavel Trnka played seven seasons in the National Hockey League, of which the Czech Defenseman was with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for the first five of the seven.

44. Joe Sacco

After three years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Joe Sacco was taken by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the Expansion Draft, thus making the American an original member of the team.

43. Mike LeClerc

Mike LeClerc’s first three years as a professional hockey player was mostly spent in the American Hockey League, but in 1999, the Left Wing earned his spot on the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim roster.

Russian Defenseman Vitaly Vishnevsky was the Fifth Overall Pick in 1998, and he would play in 30 Games for the team that year for the squad that took him, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

35. Petr Sykora

Petr Sykora played for the New Jersey Devils for seven seasons, winning a Stanley Cup before he was part of a seven-player deal that sent him to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

34. Niclas Havelid

Niclas Havelid was a Swedish star blueliner who played in his native Sweden for years before being drafted at age 26 (26?) by the Mighty Ducks in the Third Round of 1999.

42. Joffrey Lupul

The Seventh Overall Pick in 2002, Joffrey Lupul had a promising rookie year where he scored 34 Points.

37. Dmitri Mirinov

You don’t think of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim when you look at Dmitri Mirinov’s career, and that is not a surprise, considering that he never played a season beginning to end with Anaheim.  Mironov would have a higher PPG in Anaheim than he did for every other team (except Detroit, which was the same).

39. Marty McInnis

Six Games into the 1998-99 Season, the Calgary Flames traded Right Wing Marty McInnis to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, and he proceeded to score 52 Points over the rest of the year.

32. Keith Carney

A native of Rhode Island, Keith Carney was a well-traveled Defenseman's arrival to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim was his fourth NHL team (after Buffalo, Chicago, and Phoenix).

38. Todd Marchant

Todd Marchant's NHL career began in the 1993-94 Season, and a dozen years later, the Mighty Ducks claimed him off of the waivers.

Samuel Pahlsson was traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim only 17 Games into his NHL career, and it was his second team where he played his best hockey.

30. Matt Cullen

Cullen's 21-year NHL career began in Anaheim, where he was a Second Round Pick in 1996.

Fredrik Olausson is one of the best Swedish Defenseman in the game’s history, who had three runs with Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

24. Ruslan Salei

From Minsk, Ruslan Salei was taken Ninth Overall in the 1996 Draft, and he would play there until 2006 when he signed with the Florida Panthers.

21. Chris Kunitz

Chris Kunitz went undrafted, but the Ontarian made a name for himself at small Ferris State and took them to their first NCAA Tournament and an Elite 8 appearance. The Ducks signed him in 2003, where he played 21 Games, but the NHL lockout prevented him from doing anything of note the year after.

The professional career of Oleg Tverdocsky began at age 18 with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the team that took him with the Second Overall Pick in 1994.  The Ukrainian Defenseman was not with his original NHL team for long as they traded him to Winnipeg as part of the megadeal that landed them Teemu Selanne.  But he would be back!

17. Andy McDonald

Andy McDonald was undrafted but would star at Colgate University, where he won an ECAC Scoring Title.  His work there got him signed by the Ducks in 2000, the team he debuted for that year.

Had Scott Niedermayer retired before he signed with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, he might have been a Hall of Famer as is.  He had already won three Stanley Cups, and a Norris Trophy as a New Jersey Devil, but the Defenseman from Alberta had a lot left, and he removed all doubt after his five seasons in California that he was a Hall of Fame player.