{"id":299627,"date":"2026-05-04T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299627\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:21:09","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-william-karlsson-to-return-on-monday-vs-anaheim-ducks-after-missing-6-months-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299627\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights&#8217; William Karlsson to return on Monday vs. Anaheim Ducks after missing 6 months with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/william-karlsson\/8476448\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/william-karlsson\/8476448\" target=\"_blank\">William Karlsson<\/a> will return for Game 1 of the team\u2019s second-round playoff series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> after missing nearly six months with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coach John Tortorella confirmed the news before Monday night\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Karlsson was hurt in the first period of Vegas\u2019 4-3 overtime loss against the Ducks on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Karlsson had four goals and three assists early in the season before the injury. He had back-to-back 50-point seasons, but finished with only 29 in 53 games last season, when he was sidelined twice because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Vegas Golden Knights center William Karlsson will return for Game 1 of the team\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-299627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299627","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=299627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}