{"id":137260,"date":"2026-01-17T04:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:37:10","slug":"leo-carlsson-out-three-to-five-weeks-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137260\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Carlsson Out Three To Five Weeks \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ducks, who have been struggling in recent weeks, will now have to try to turn things around without the services of one of their top players for the next little while.\u00a0 The team announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that center Leo Carlsson<\/a> will miss the next three to five weeks after undergoing a procedure today to treat a Morel-Lavall\u00e9e lesion in his left thigh.<\/p>\n

After showing some improvement in his sophomore year last season, Carlsson has been one of the league\u2019s breakout performers in 2025-26.\u00a0 He has emerged as a legitimate number one center for Anaheim, playing in all situations with head coach Joel Quenneville entrusting him with a much bigger role.<\/p>\n

On the offensive side of things, Carlsson has 18 goals and 26 assists in 44 games so far, making him their leading scorer, two points ahead of veteran Troy Terry<\/a> who is also dealing with an injury.\u00a0 He has already set a career high in assists and is only one point shy of matching his career high in points.\u00a0 In the final season of his entry-level contract, the 21-year-old is putting himself in line for a significant raise on his next deal with a jump to a double-digit AAV not out of the question on a max-term agreement.<\/p>\n

On top of having significant implications for Anaheim\u2019s efforts to get back into the playoff picture (they\u2019re four points out heading into tonight\u2019s action), Carlsson\u2019s absence could also affect a second team as well.\u00a0 He was named to Sweden\u2019s Olympic roster earlier this month with their first game coming on February 12th.\u00a0 If his recovery time is the short end of that range, he should be good to go to participate.\u00a0 However, if it looks like it will be closer to the longer end, he\u2019d miss the first week at a minimum and given the short length of the tournament, Carlsson would become a potential roster casualty.\u00a0 He\u2019ll undoubtedly be reassessed in a few weeks to help determine if he\u2019ll be cleared to suit up in that event.<\/p>\n

At the moment, Carlsson is on Anaheim\u2019s active roster.\u00a0 With that currently being at the maximum of 23, he\u2019s likely to be shifted to injured reserve in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks, who have been struggling in recent weeks, will now have to try to turn things around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,1716,46268],"class_list":{"0":"post-137260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-leo-carlsson","13":"tag-newsstand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}