{"id":774003,"date":"2026-07-02T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:45:08","slug":"carlson-signs-2-year-17-million-contract-with-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774003\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlson signs 2-year, $17 million contract with Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-carlson-8474590\" title=\"John Carlson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> signed a two-year, $17 million contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday. It has an average annual value of $8.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old defenseman had 60 points (14 goals, 46 assists) in 71 regular-season games for the Anaheim Ducks and Washington Capitals last season, including 14 points (four goals, 10 assists) in 16 games after he was acquired in a trade with Washington on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>He had six assists in 12 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/trade-coverage\/john-carlson-rights-traded-to-carolina-hurricanes-by-anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlson had his rights acquired by the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in a trade with the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes had exclusive rights to negotiate with Carlson prior to him becoming an unrestricted free agent on Wednesday, but were unable to agree on a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Washington in the first round (No. 27) of the 2008 NHL Draft, Carlson has 785 points (170 goals, 615 assists) in 1,159 regular-season games for the Capitals and Ducks and ranks fifth in points among active defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson has 84 points (21 goals, 63 assists) in 149 playoff games and won the Stanley Cup with the Capitals in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Carlson signed a two-year, $17 million contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday. It has an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-774003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774003","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=774003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}