- Ducks signed A.J. Greer to a four-year, $17 million contract on free agency eve
- Greer’s $4.25 million cap hit comes with a 10-team no-trade clause after a career-best 17-goal season
- Read below for how the Radko Gudas trade cleared the way for Anaheim’s newest winger
A.J. Greer got paid on free agency eve.
Anaheim signed the physical winger to a four-year, $17 million contract Monday night, a day before the market opens. Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports had it first:
The cap hit lands at $4.25 million, and the deal includes a 10-team no-trade clause, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. That’s a big bump for a fourth-liner who earned $850,000 in Florida.
This move started over the weekend. The Ducks sent captain Radko Gudas’s rights to the Panthers for Greer’s negotiating rights, and Gudas is expected to re-sign in Florida. Call it a swap of veteran muscle.
Greer gives Anaheim what Gudas did. He led Florida with 203 hits last season and racked up 113 penalty minutes.
He drops the gloves, too. Watch him go with Montreal’s Arber Xhekaj:
The 29-year-old is coming off a career year, with new highs of 17 goals and 32 points in 78 games. He also won a Stanley Cup with the Panthers in 2025, holding down a checking role through the run.
Greer’s path here was a grind. Colorado drafted him 39th overall in 2015, and he shuffled between the AHL and NHL with the Avalanche, Islanders and Devils. Short stays in Boston and Calgary followed before Florida signed him cheap in 2024.
He turned that chance into the best hockey of his life. Now it pays off with a four-year deal and a fat raise in Anaheim.
