The Ducks also receive a third-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.
Kulikov is in the final season of a two-year contract he signed with the Minnesota Wild on July 28, 2021, and can become an unrestricted free agent after the season. The defenseman had been acquired by the Ducks in a trade with the Wild on Aug. 31.
The 32-year-old has 15 points (three goals, 12 assists) in 61 games this season.
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Selected by the Florida Panthers with the No. 14 pick in the 2009 NHL Draft, Kulikov has 213 points (45 goals, 168 assists) in 866 regular-season games with the Panthers, Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets, New Jersey Devils, Edmonton Oilers, Wild and Ducks, and eight points (one goal, seven assists) in 29 Stanley Cup Playoff games.
McGinn has 16 points (10 goals, six assists) in 60 games. The forward had been assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old is in the second season of a four-year, $11 million contract ($2.75 million average annual value) he signed July 28, 2021.
Pittsburgh also acquired forward Nick Bonino
as part of a three-team trade with the San Jose Sharks and Montreal Canadiens. Bonino has 19 points (10 goals, nine assists) in 59 games, and was part of the Penguins' Stanley Cup championship teams in 2016 and 2017.
The Penguins previously
acquired forward Mikael Granlund in a trade with the Predators
on Wednesday for a second-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, and defenseman Peter DiLiberatore and third-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft in
a trade with the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday
for forward Teddy Blueger.
Anaheim (20-34-8)
also traded defenseman John Klingberg to the Minnesota Wild
for defenseman
Andrej Sustr
, forward
Nikita Nesterenko
and a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
The Ducks are last in the Pacific Division and one point ahead of the Chicago Blackhawks for last in the Western Conference.
