{"id":211545,"date":"2025-10-14T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211545\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:18:07","slug":"ducks-leo-carlsson-deserves-so-much-more-love-for-his-strong-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211545\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks\u2019 Leo Carlsson deserves so much more love for his strong play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> were a popular pick to be a breakout team in the Western Conference this season, and while much of that hope rested upon the upgrade behind the bench that was the hiring of Joel Quenneville, a lot of it also had to do with growth from its talented young nucleus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">One of the main stars of that group is center Leo Carlsson, the No. 2 overall pick from the 2023 NHL Draft who put up 45 points in 76 games a year ago, but both the eye test and his underlying statistics suggested he performed at an even higher level than that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">With a three-point night that included a smooth overtime winner in Saturday night\u2019s win over the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>, Carlsson lent some credence to the idea that he could be one of the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/5-players-who-could-swing-2025-26-nhl-season-carlsson-clarke-hughes-johnston-cuylle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">big breakout stars<\/a> of this NHL season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Monday\u2019s episode of\u00a0<a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gXxCSg9dhjM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, host Tyler Yaremchuk and co-host and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed\u00a0Carlsson\u2019s performance and growth, and what it means for the outlook of a young, talented Ducks team moving forward:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: I\u2019m going to give my \u201cMan of the Weekend\u201d to Leo Carlsson out in Anaheim. I think this a guy, you know top-five pick, but a top five pick who outside of that market almost doesn\u2019t have a lot for fanfare around him\u2026 I think there are some flashier players that are even a part of that rebuild\u2026 You look at Leo Carlsson, and sometimes these high-end prospects who are really known for their defensive game, but you look at what Carlsson\u2019s doing right now, OT winner gives the Ducks their first win of the season, and he\u2019s starting to produce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter Hutton: This feels like the team out West. This is the team we\u2019ve talked about so much in Anaheim. There\u2019s so much potential. There\u2019s so many things that are going the right way, the way that it\u2019s built, and Leo Carlsson is quietly one of those guys too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks were a popular pick to be a breakout team in the Western Conference this season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-211545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}