Carlson began his ice hockey career with the New Jersey Rockets Youth Hockey Organization of the Atlantic Youth Hockey League.
John Carlson born on January 10, 1990, is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and alternate captain for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). Carlson began his ice hockey career with the New Jersey Rockets Youth Hockey Organization of the Atlantic Youth Hockey League. Carlson was born in Natick, Massachusetts, and lived in Marlborough, Massachusetts. His family moved to the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey when he was five years old. Carlson has an older brother, Andrew, whom he played high school hockey with for one season.
John Carlson is of Swedish descent on his father’s side and Italian on his mother’s. Carlson scored 50 points in 44 games in his final year with the Rockets, earning him the 2006-07 Atlantic Junior Hockey League (AtJHL) Offensive Defenseman of the Year Award. He attended St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, New Jersey, for three years, but he only played for the high school team during his freshman year, the 2004–05 season. Carlson attended Cathedral High School in Indianapolis for his senior year while he played juniors for the Indiana Ice of the USHL.
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John Carlson was drafted by the Capitals in the first round, 27th overall, in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft after playing a year in the United States Hockey League (USHL) with the Indiana Ice. Before reaching the NHL, Carlson played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the London Knights and played professionally with the Capitals’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Hershey Bears. He also participated internationally for the United States in the 2010 World Juniors and 2014 Winter Olympics. Carlson won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Capitals in 2018, as the highest-scoring defenseman during the playoffs.
| Games | 887 |
| Points | 593 |
| Goals | 132 |
| Assists | 461 |
John Carlson has a net worth of $2.51 million, with an accumulated cap hit of $8 million. His contract is supposed to expire in 2026, after his signing of an 8-year contract with the Washington Capitals worth $64 million with $28 million as a signing bonus, $64 million guaranteed, and an annual average salary of $8 million. In 2022-23 Carlson is earning a base salary of $4 million with a signing bonus of $2 million. Combining all the 14 seasons that he played in NHL, he has an amount of $70,946,951 million with included a signing bonus of $22,262,500 million.
John Carlson and Gina Nucci tied the knot on September 6, 2014, after staying in a relationship for a very long time. Funnily enough, it is said that the couple got engaged while they were out to eat pizza in March 2014. The couple got blessed by their parents, teammates, and beloved ones on their wedding day. In June 2015, they had their firstborn child, a son named Lucca. They had their second child, a boy named Rudy, in May 2018. The couple welcomed their third child, a boy named Sawyer, in November of 2020.
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