{"id":137592,"date":"2026-01-17T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:50:18","slug":"ducks-star-leo-carlsson-out-with-thigh-injury-could-miss-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137592\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks star Leo Carlsson out with thigh injury, could miss Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ducks<\/a> will be without leading scorer Leo Carlsson<\/a> until after the Olympic break after the center underwent a surgical procedure to treat a lesion in his left thigh Friday. A team spokesperson said he is expected to miss three to five weeks, which also leaves his participation in next month\u2019s Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a> in doubt.<\/p>\n

Carlsson, 21, had a team-high 44 points on 18 goals and 26 assists heading into Friday\u2019s rivalry game with the Kings<\/a> at Crypto.com Arena. He did not play in the Ducks\u2019 3-1 win<\/a> over Dallas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Carlsson, a Swede, is one of four Ducks selected to play in the Winter Games. Sweden is scheduled to open play on Feb. 11, with the knockout stage starting Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

His injury, known as a Morel-Lavall\u00e9e lesion, is a rare degloving condition in which skin and fat become separated from fascia tissue, leaving a fluid-filled space. The No. 2 overall pick in the 2023 NHL draft, Carlsson had 20 goals and 45 points last season.<\/p>\n

The Ducks entered Friday having won just one of their last 10 games to fall to sixth in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks will be without leading scorer Leo Carlsson until after the Olympic break after the center underwent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,20318,13508,69901,6264,45043,2424,2194,22675,69900,69902,26341,10012,69899,68,430],"class_list":["post-137592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-carlsson","tag-dallas","tag-duck-star-leo-carlsson","tag-ducks","tag-feb","tag-friday","tag-goal","tag-last-game","tag-lesion","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-next-month","tag-olympics","tag-thigh-injury","tag-tuesday","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137592","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=137592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}