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The Ducks selected goaltender Vyacheslav Buteyets with the 178th overall pick (sixth round) in the 2022 NHL Draft Friday in Montreal.

Buteyets, 20 (5/29/02), posted a 6-2-2 record with a 2.49 goals-against-record (GAA) and .918 save percentage (SV%) in 11 games last season with Chelmet Chelyabinsk of the VHL, Russia's second division. He also went 7-7-1 with a 3.03 GAA and a .890 SV% last season with Belye Medvedi Chelyabinsk of the MHL, Russia's top junior league.
The 6-4, 185-pound netminder has earned a 9-10-1 record with a 2.86 GAA and a .898 SV% in 27 career MHL games with Belye Medvedi Chelyabinsk and Chaika Nizhny Novgorod from 2019-22.