Five things about the Joffrey Lupul-Francois Beauchemin trade.

The Ducks will be posting a complete transcript of this morning's conference calls with Francois Beauchemin and general manager Bob Murray soon.

In the meantime, here are five things you need to know:

1. Beauchemin isn't playing tonight. He's flying to Vancouver today, then will hopefully practice with the Ducks tomorrow and play Friday night in Calgary, Murray said.

2. Murray said he determined the Ducks were a playoff team when they rallied in January with captain Ryan Getzlaf on injured reserve. Then he determined the team needed the most help on defense now - but not down the road, with youngsters Cam Fowler, Luca Sbisa and prospect Nick Schultz developing well. That made Jake Gardiner expendable. "We gave them a good young prospect here," Murray said. "We feel we're really deep at that position of prospects, on defense."

3. Including Beauchemin, the Ducks have nine defensemen. Asked if another move was in the works, Murray said "nothing's imminent." So it looks like there will be eight defensemen and 13 forwards available tonight in Vancouver. Left wing Aaron Voros, who cleared waivers this morning, might be back in the lineup.

4. Beauchemin admitted he "didn't really like it" when the Ducks didn't match the Maple Leafs' offer to him in free agency in June 2009. But he liked Anaheim enough to put the Ducks on his list of 12 teams he would accept a trade to. "Bob (Murray) was the guy who mentioned to (Brian Burke) in that (Sergei) Fedorov deal, to include me in it, because he saw me playing the American League five, six years ago," Beauchemin said, "and our relationship hasn't really changed."

5. Lupul said he has "a lot to prove" to a Ducks team that "just let me go after 20 games." He'll have to wait - the two teams won't play each other again this season.