{"id":460153,"date":"2026-09-11T04:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:38:42","slug":"carlsson-ready-to-deliver-on-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460153\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlsson Ready to Deliver on Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 21-year-old is coming off his best NHL season, with career highs in goals (29), assists (38) and points (67) in 70 regular-season games and 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in 12 postseason games last season. When the Flyers tendered the offer sheet to Carlsson, he was the second player to get one this offseason after the New Jersey Devils signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/barrett-hayton-8480849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barrett Hayton<\/a> to a one-year, $4.775 million contract on July 1. The Utah Mammoth announced one week later that they were matching the contract.<\/p>\n<p>For Carlsson, the whole thing was crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, because it was so unexpected, that\u2019s why. I mean, (Cale) Makar, you know those guys are going to sign big contracts,\u201d Carlsson said of the Colorado Avalanche defenseman, who signed an eight-year, $163.2 million contract with a League-record $20.4 million AAV on Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t know (the Flyers) were going to offer sheet me like that. It\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And for a brief time, Carlsson was the highest paid player in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we knew. My team knew it was going to be for a short time. It was fun for a while,\u201d Carlsson said with a smile. \u201cI\u2019m not complaining at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s on to this season and getting a playoff appearance streak going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expectations are higher than last seasons were,\u201d Carlsson said. \u201cOur expectations are to make the playoffs again because we know we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 21-year-old is coming off his best NHL season, with career highs in goals (29), assists (38) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-460153","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\/460153","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=460153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}