{"id":500348,"date":"2026-03-12T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/500348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:28:26","slug":"is-anaheim-thinking-extension-with-john-carlson-after-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/500348\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anaheim thinking extension with John Carlson after trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The John Carlson trade was among the most shocking transactions that beat the 2026 NHL trade deadline. The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> acquired Carlson<a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nhl-stories\/john-carlson-trade-grades-stunner-between-ducks-capitals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> from the Washington Capitals<\/a> for a couple of draft picks, one of which is a first-rounder in 2026, and the other is a third-rounder in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran blueliner is on an expiring contract with a $8 million cap hit, but there are murmurs that he&#8217;ll be with the Ducks beyond the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, let\u2019s see where it goes with Carlson. Anaheim did not give up the return that it did for a 36-year-old blueliner with the idea of him being only a rental,\u201d wrote NHL insider Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy understanding is that the Ducks will eventually approach Carlson\u2019s camp, led by veteran agent Rick Curran, about what an extension looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, LeBrun said there are still factors, both related to and unrelated to hockey, to consider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I also think everyone involved wants to wait until Carlson adjusts to his new surroundings and his family comes out and gets a sense of Anaheim, etc.,\u201d LeBrun added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still a month to go in the regular season, so there\u2019s lots of time still for a contract conversation before the playoffs start. But even if it waits until after the playoffs, there\u2019s also lots of time before July 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An extension with the Ducks will squash hopes of Capitals fans for his possible return to Washington in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, who played his entire career wearing Capitals colors until the huge trade, now <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/anaheim-ducks\/2-reasons-john-carlson-perfect-fit-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looks to help the Ducks lock up a ticket<\/a> to the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. Anaheim is on the verge of ending a long playoff drought that dates back to 2019, as the Ducks are atop the Pacific Division with a three-point lead entering Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The John Carlson trade was among the most shocking transactions that beat the 2026 NHL trade deadline. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,281,4,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-500348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-john-carlson","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116218803354761000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500348","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=500348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}