{"id":750948,"date":"2026-06-21T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:03:19","slug":"west-notes-karlsson-schultz-martin-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750948\/","title":{"rendered":"West Notes: Karlsson, Schultz, Martin \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/brianlarose\" title=\"Posts by Brian La Rose\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian La Rose<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at June 20, 2026 1:19 pm  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/karlswi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">William Karlsson<\/a>\u2019s injury that caused him to miss the final game of the Stanley Cup Final was a wrist issue that required surgery, Vegas GM Kelly McCrimmon noted to reporters earlier this week (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/video\/year-end-mccrimmon-6398680142112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video link<\/a>).\u00a0 It was a tough end to an injury-riddled year for the 33-year-old as he only suited up in 14 games during the regular season due to a lower-body injury while also missing seven playoff contests.\u00a0 The expectation is that the Golden Knights are going to be looking to clear out salary to try to bring back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderra01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rasmus Andersson<\/a> and Karlsson is one of the speculative candidates to be a cap casualty.\u00a0 However, another extended recovery for his wrist injury could make other teams a bit more wary about looking at acquiring him.<\/p>\n<p>More from out West:<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/kraken\/news\/justin-schultz-joins-kraken-player-development-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve hired former NHL defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schulju01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Schultz<\/a> as a member of their development staff. The 35-year-old played parts of a dozen NHL seasons, recording 324 points in 745 games between four different teams.\u00a0 The last of those was with Seattle, as he spent two seasons with them in 2022-23 and 2023-24.\u00a0 Schultz went to Switzerland the following year but retired midway through the season.\u00a0 He\u2019ll be tasked with working with the Kraken\u2019s defense prospects as he begins his coaching career.<br \/>\nJets prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/804375\/owen-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Owen Martin<\/a> is expected to transfer to Colorado College for the 2027-28 season, reports Brad Elliott Schlossmann of the Grand Forks Herald (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SchlossmanGF\/status\/2067592824522977561\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The 19-year-old center was a third-round pick last year, going 95th overall.\u00a0 Martin played in 65 games with WHL Spokane this past season, recording 26 goals and 30 assists while adding five goals in six playoff games.\u00a0 The college commitment, if finalized before next June, would extend Winnipeg\u2019s timeline to sign Martin to his entry-level deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at June 20, 2026 1:19 pm William Karlsson\u2019s injury that caused him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,360448,575,360449,3066,85,7529,52924,185043,6000],"class_list":["post-750948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-justin-schultz","tag-nhl","tag-owen-martin","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-whl","tag-william-karlsson","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750948","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=750948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}