{"id":363561,"date":"2026-06-17T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:30:14","slug":"john-carlson-leaving-ducks-in-free-agency-wheres-he-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363561\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carlson Leaving Ducks in Free Agency, Where\u2019s He Headed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7366274\/2026\/06\/16\/nhl-rumblings-carlson-rielly-hischier\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.RfdQ.Ci6SnzYvUm7d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic<\/a>  , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/players\/john_carlson\/91486\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> is headed to free agency. He will test the market, as per his agent, Rick Curran, who has informed  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim_ducks\/117\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> GM Pat Verbeek that Carlson likely won\u2019t return. LeBrun adds, \u201cBoth sides talked about a potential extension, but Carlson is moving on.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had good discussions with Pat,\u201d Curran told\u00a0The Athletic\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cI told him how much John enjoyed his time in Anaheim. But his preference is to return and play in the East, closer to family and the familiarity with it. Pat was naturally disappointed but completely understood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report by Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic , John Carlson is headed to free agency.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-363561","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\/363561","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=363561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}