{"id":438760,"date":"2023-06-29T05:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438760"},"modified":"2023-06-29T05:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:41:13","slug":"anaheim-ducks-pick-carlsson-2nd-overall","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anaheim-ducks-pick-carlsson-2nd-overall\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks pick Carlsson 2nd overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks shared before the draft that they would select a center with the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall selection, but they didn\u2019t share who that would be.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to Anaheim \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks select Leo Carlsson at No. 2 overall! \ud83e\udd86 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jdlv49YAVR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Jdlv49YAVR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1674198810048733185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The public thought that that would be Adam Fantilli, but Anaheim surprised them and added him to their roster Leo Carlsson, as that was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> surprise in the 2023 NHL Draft after it was certain that Chicago Blackhawks would pick 1<sup>st<\/sup> Connor Bedard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I talked with the Ducks yesterday,&#8221; Leo shared with the media after he was drafted. &#8220;I was very positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim is in rebuild mode, as the biggest thing that the franchise can sell is a promise. Ducks count on the future with players like Jamie Drysdale, Mason McTavish, Troy Terry, and Trevor Zegras. Anaheim farm system is one of the greatest in the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We caught up with Leo Carlsson to ask about his draft night experience, his wild trip to get to Nashville and his style of play.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlyTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FlyTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Honda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Honda<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4mcX0VhiJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/w4mcX0VhiJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnaheimDucks\/status\/1674280238228881410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks shared before the draft that they would select a center with the 2nd overall selection, but they didn\u2019t share who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438761,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16894,20163,17844,19216],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18808,20164,19217,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Ducks took him over Fantilli with the 2nd pick.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438760"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438760"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}