Carlson is in the last of an eight-year, $64 million contract ($8 million average annual value) the 36-year-old defenseman signed with the Washington Capitals on June 24, 2018.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes, who won the Stanley Cup this season, have exclusive rights to negotiate with\u00a0Carlson, who can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.<\/p>\n
“Like Eric (Tulsky, general manger) mentioned last night, we’re always trying to get better, and a move like that is no different,” associate GM Darren Yorke told the Hurricanes website.\u00a0“(We are) trying to make\u00a0sure that we are always in a position\u00a0to look at every opportunity to try to get better.”<\/p>\n
Carlson had 60 points (14 goals, 46 assists) in 71 regular-season games for the Ducks and Capitals this season, including 14 points (four goals, 10 assists) in 16 games after he was acquired in a trade with Washington on March 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had six assists in 12 Stanley Cup Playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Selected by Washington in the first round (No. 27) of the 2008 NHL Draft, Carlson has 785 points (170 goals, 615 assists) in 1,159 regular-season games for the Capitals and Ducks and ranks fifth in points among active defensemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carlson has 84 points (21 goals, 63 assists) in 149 playoff games and won the Stanley Cup with Washington in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlson is in the last of an eight-year, $64 million contract ($8 million average annual value) the 36-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-378355","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\/378355","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=378355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}