{"id":207298,"date":"2026-03-06T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:37:15","slug":"capitals-trade-john-carlson-to-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207298\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals Trade John Carlson to Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USATSI_22627929-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Feb 26, 2024; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson (74) waves to fans while being acknowledged for breaking the Capitals&#8217; franchise record for most games by a defenseman against the Ottawa Senators in the first period at Capital One Arena. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>A stunner in the wee hours of trade deadline day, as the Washington Capitals have sent star defenseman John Carlson to the Anaheim Ducks for a pair of draft picks:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS | The Washington Capitals have acquired a conditional first-round pick in either the 2026 NHL Draft or the 2027 NHL Draft and a third-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft from the Anaheim Ducks for defenseman John Carlson. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALLCAPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ALLCAPS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shift4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Shift4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/2029802173605835055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drafted 27th overall in 2008 and debuting in 2009, Carlson was a mainstay on Washington\u2019s blueline for 17 seasons. He leaves DC as the franchise\u2019s 5th all-time leading scorer, accumulating more goals and points than any other defenseman to ever don a Capitals sweater. A brilliant run of consistent high level play that leaves him a strong candidate to have his name hanging in the rafters at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to mourn in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 26, 2024; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson (74) waves to fans while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-207298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207298","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=207298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}