{"id":299663,"date":"2026-05-04T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:46:09","slug":"golden-knights-william-karlsson-to-return-on-monday-vs-ducks-after-missing-6-months-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299663\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights&#8217; William Karlsson to return on Monday vs. Ducks after missing 6 months with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/vegas-golden-knights-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/william-karlsson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Karlsson<\/a> will return for Game 1 of the team&#8217;s second-round playoff series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/anaheim-ducks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> after missing nearly six months with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Coach John Tortorella confirmed the news before Monday night&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Karlsson was hurt in the first period of Vegas\u2019 4-3 overtime loss against the Ducks on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a> playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Vegas Golden Knights center William Karlsson will return for Game 1 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,896,8614,29825],"class_list":["post-299663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-william-karlsson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299663","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=299663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}