{"id":137306,"date":"2026-01-17T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:20:10","slug":"ducks-leo-carlsson-out-3-5-weeks-with-thigh-injury-threatening-oiympic-availability-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137306\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks\u2019 Leo Carlsson out 3-5 weeks with thigh injury, threatening OIympic availability \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Ducks center Leo Carlsson will be sidelined for three to five weeks after undergoing a procedure to treat a left thigh injury, putting his Olympic participation for Sweden in question.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsson had the procedure on Friday in Los Angeles on a Morel-Lavall\u00e9e lesion \u2013 a rare degloving injury in which skin and fat become separated from fascia tissue, leaving a fluid-filled space.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsson, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, got off to an exceptional start for the Ducks this season with 38 points in his first 29 games. He has been in a scoring slump for the past month, producing just six points in the past 15 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Carlsson was selected for Sweden\u2019s Olympic team, but the Milan-Cortina Games begin in 3\u00bd weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsson is still the leading scorer for the Ducks this season with 44 points in 44 games. His extended absence is another setback for the Ducks, who had lost nine of their past 10 games going into Friday after spending much of the season\u2019s first 2\u00bd months in first place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks were facing off with the Kings on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena for the first leg of a home-and-home Freeway Faceoff miniseries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES \u2014 Ducks center Leo Carlsson will be sidelined for three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-137306","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-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137306","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=137306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}