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.

Traded from the Ottawa Senators after his rookie season, Jakob Silfverberg played the ten years after with Anaheim, where the Left Wing proved valuable on the defensive side of the ice.

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!

Rickard Rakell played the first ten seasons of his career with the Anaheim Ducks, the team that took him late in the First Round in 2011.