{"id":565841,"date":"2026-03-28T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:40:07","slug":"is-erik-karlsson-the-best-player-in-hockey-right-now-he-just-might-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565841\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Erik Karlsson The Best Player In Hockey Right Now? He Just Might Be."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is little debate that Karlsson is the very best player in the league right now. He is not just putting up elite, forward-level production game-in and game-out, and he is not just a product of what&#8217;s happening around him. He has been, far and away, the best Penguins&#8217; player in the last month, and even if the players mentioned above are contributing to the cause, guys like Kucherov and Necas &#8211; the only guys who have more points than he does in March &#8211; have the benefit of other players like Jake Guentzel and MacKinnon, respectively, helping them lead their teams to comfortable playoff berths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is little debate that Karlsson is the very best player in the league right now. He is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-565841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}