{"id":412056,"date":"2026-01-17T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/412056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:14:12","slug":"leo-carlssons-injury-threatens-availability-for-sweden-in-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/412056\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Carlsson&#8217;s injury threatens availability for Sweden in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, January 17, 2026 3:27AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES &#8212; <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ana\/anaheim-ducks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> center <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5149153\/leo-carlsson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leo Carlsson<\/a> will be sidelined for three to five weeks after undergoing a procedure to treat a left thigh injury, putting his Olympic participation for Sweden in question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Carlsson had the procedure Friday in Los Angeles on a Morel-Lavall\u00e9e lesion &#8212; a rare degloving injury in which skin and fat become separated from fascia tissue, leaving a fluid-filled space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Carlsson, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2023 draft, got off to an exceptional start for the Ducks this season with 38 points in his first 29 games. He has been in a scoring slump for the past month, producing just six points in the past 15 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 21-year-old Carlsson was selected for Sweden&#8217;s Olympic team, but the Milan-Cortina Games begin in 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Carlsson is still the leading scorer for the Ducks this season with 44 points in 44 games.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, January 17, 2026 3:27AM LOS ANGELES &#8212; Anaheim Ducks center Leo Carlsson will be sidelined for three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[51790,2210,233,5292,51789,1739,266,5,40,4,12827],"class_list":{"0":"post-412056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-51790","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-ducks","11":"tag-anaheimducks","12":"tag-carlsson-leo","13":"tag-ducks","14":"tag-espn","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-sweden-sweden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115908501444615720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}