{"id":244694,"date":"2026-03-31T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244694\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:45:13","slug":"john-carlson-scores-first-goal-with-anaheim-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244694\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carlson scores first goal with Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/john-carlson-first-goal-anaheim-ducks.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"John Carlson celebrates a goal with his Anaheim Ducks teammates\"  decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScreenshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWiLTsOEoe8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@anaheimducks\/IG<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John Carlson scored the first goal of his hockey career not with the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/03\/30\/radko-gudas-max-domi-fight-ducks-leafs-auston-matthews-revenge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Anaheim Ducks\u2019 wild 5-4 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, Carlson lit the lamp 11:33 into the second period, tallying his eleventh goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson found the back of the net shorthanded after taking a back pass from Jackson LaCombe. The former Capitals defenseman then skated into open space, where he cradled the puck before firing a shot past Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz.<\/p>\n<p>Beckett Sennecke, a 20-year-old rookie forward, picked up the milestone goal puck.<\/p>\n<p>The tally put the Ducks up 3-1, but the team surrendered four of the next five goals to the Leafs, earning just a single standings point, an overtime loss, in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to be more mature and come out on top of these games when we\u2019re coming down the stretch,\u201d Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZachCav\/status\/2038853451887907270\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re running out of real estate to both collect as many points as we can and also feel good about how we\u2019re playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/03\/30\/john-carlson-nhl-third-star-of-the-week-anaheim-ducks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who was named the NHL\u2019s Third Star of the Week on Monday<\/a>, now has nine points in eight games with the Ducks. He\u2019s currently on a four-game point streak, notching one goal and seven assists during that span.<\/p>\n<p>Before tonight\u2019s game, Carlson scored his previous 166 goals with the Capitals \u2014 a franchise record for defensemen \u2014 after spending the previous 17 seasons in DC.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: @anaheimducks\/IG John Carlson scored the first goal of his hockey career not with the Washington Capitals. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-244694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244694","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=244694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}