Former Anaheim Ducks player Nic Kerdiles was killed early Saturday morning in a motorcycle crash in North Nashville. Metro Nashville Police identified Nicolas Kerdiles, 29, as the motorcyclist killed after colliding with an SUV at the intersection of 14th Avenue North at Wheless Street.
Kerdiles was selected by the Ducks in the second round of the 2012 NHL Draft. He played two seasons with the Anaheim Ducks between 2016-2018, according to hockeydb.com. He attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he played with the Wisconsin Badgers.
In 2018 he was traded to the Winnipeg Jets for Chase De Leo and spent one season playing with the Manitoba Moose minor league team.
What happened to Nic Kerdiles?
Nashville police say that a preliminary investigation shows that Kerdiles was driving his Indian Motorcycle west on Wheless Street around 3:30 a.m. when he ran a stop sign and struck the driver's side of a BMW SUV.
Police say there were no signs of impairment at the scene from either driver. Kerdiles was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.
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