{"id":549453,"date":"2026-04-10T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:09:27","slug":"john-carlson-always-wanted-a-hat-trick-the-ducks-defenseman-finally-got-one-in-his-17th-nhl-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549453\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carlson always wanted a hat trick. The Ducks defenseman finally got one in his 17th NHL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"M2I7JVXJCZFGZNM2VMI3SBZ5A4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 John Carlson played 1,156 regular-season games and 137 more Stanley Cup playoff contests in his 17 NHL seasons before he finally got his first hat trick.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5VUF5ECSAZEAVPFXW7Q2JJPNUQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The steady defenseman would never list a three-goal game as a true aspiration, but Carlson was still thrilled to do it Thursday night \u2014 particularly because it came in a vital victory for his new team\u2019s playoff aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 John Carlson played 1,156 regular-season games and 137 more Stanley Cup playoff contests in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[57487,191,62398,5,4,57484,39240,292,57485,106,57486,2960,43,104,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-549453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-2026-nhl-schedule","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-hkn-ducks-carlsons-hat-trick","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-2026-news","14":"tag-nhl-highlights","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-nhl-latest-news","17":"tag-nhl-news","18":"tag-nhl-schedule-2026","19":"tag-nhl-scores","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-washington-capitals","24":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116379868589638735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549453","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=549453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}