Carlson Tells Ducks He’s Out - Wants East Coast Home

John Carlson is making his preference known, and that usually means a quiet negotiation is about to get loud. The Ducks now know where they stand, which is often the first domino in a summer that starts with polite phone calls and ends with GMs doing damage control. He is signaling that the next chapter needs to be back East, and that narrows the field in a hurry. For a team that thought it had a bigger hold on the situation, this is the kind of message that changes the temperature fast.