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.

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

Brandon Montour got noticed in what would be his lone year at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he would become a Second Round Pick in the 2014 Draft.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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

Andrew Cogliano played for the Ducks for eight seasons, and while you would never slap the title of a superstar on Cogliano, you could state that he was a dependable character player throughout his tenure in Anaheim.

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

Frederik Andersen played in his native Denmark, playing well enough to earn a Seventh Round Pic by the Anaheim Ducks in 2010.  Three years later, Andersen made his NHL debut with a 23 Game rookie year.

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.

After playing eight years in the NHL in a minute role, Defenseman, Bobby Dollas was taken by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 1993 Expansion Draft.  Anaheim gave him the opportunity that he had always coveted.

Sami Vatanen was a Fourth Round Pick by the Anaheim Ducks, but the Finnish Defenseman did not make his way stateside until three years later.

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.

Ryan Kesler cut his teeth with the Vancouver Canucks, where he was one of the best defensive forwards, winning a Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2010-11.  Kesler was dealt to the Anaheim Ducks after the 2013-14 Season, where he has remained a premier defensive forward.

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!

The son of former hockey pugilist, Dave Manson, Josh Manson may not be as tough as his father, but he was a decent player in his own right.

Before he arrived in Anaheim, Chris Pronger had what could be considered a Hall of Fame career.  The Defenseman already won a Hart Trophy and Norris Trophy, which is enough for one hell of a hockey career.  Playing for the St. Louis Blues for most of his career, Pronger was an Edmonton Oiler for one season but was unhappy and requested a trade.  The Oilers acquiesced and dealt him to Anaheim, where he earned the one thing that his career missed…a Stanley Cup.