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Around The A: Anaheim Ducks Acquire NHL Veteran Goaltender Ville Husso

Around The A: Anaheim Ducks Acquire NHL Veteran Goaltender Ville Husso

The Anaheim Ducks acquired NHL veteran goaltender Ville Husso from the Detroit Red Wings on Monday and assigned him to the San Diego Gulls.

Feb 25, 2025 by Patrick Williams
Around The A: Anaheim Ducks Acquire NHL Veteran Goaltender Ville Husso

There is a goaltending shake-up in the Anaheim Ducks organization that has implications for their AHL affiliate, the San Diego Gulls, as well.

Anaheim acquired goaltender Ville Husso from the Detroit Red Wings on Monday afternoon for future considerations. They promptly assigned him to the Gulls. Ducks goaltender John Gibson left this past Saturday night’s game at Boston after two periods, and Lukas Dostal stepped in as relief. They announced Sunday that Gibson will be out on a day-to-day basis with an upper-body injury, so Oskar Dansk joined the Ducks on recall from San Diego on Sunday to back up Dostal in a 5-4 overtime loss at Detroit.

The Ducks’ three-game Eastern Conference swing finishes Tuesday at Buffalo before they return home to face Vancouver on Thursday. If the Ducks opt for more NHL experience, the 30-year-old Husso has 141 games with Detroit and St. Louis and would be able to partner with Dostal. Nine of those games came this season with Detroit, where he was 1-5-2 | 3.69 | .866. In 13 games with the Grand Rapids Griffins, he went 8-4-0 | 2.70 | .912.

Anaheim’s organizational goaltending picture took a significant hit last September when promising prospect Tomas Suchanek had surgery for a ruptured ACL. The Ducks announced at that time that he will be out six to eight months. That injury prompted the Ducks to sign Dansk, who had spent the past two seasons with the Calgary Wranglers.

Moving Husso will also alleviate a crowded organizational depth chart in net for the Red Wings. Detroit already has Cam Talbot and Alex Lyon on its NHL roster. Top prospect Sebastian Cossa and NHL veteran Jack Campbell are with Grand Rapids.

San Diego is in a fight to remain in the Pacific Division race. A six-game winning streak has moved the Gulls to within seven points of Tucson and the Pacific Division playoff line. They swept Bakersfield, one of the teams that they are chasing, in a two-game road series this past weekend and will face Calgary at home Wednesday.

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