Cap dump swap

Definitely not a good trade for the sharks. Doesn’t make any sense.

Makes zero sense for both teams actually (Buffalo doesn’t want the extra cap for the term and the sharks don’t want the worse player ((I mean idk how he’s playing this year so I won’t trash skinner but even still I’d rather Karlsson for the sharks because we have no need for skinner; seeing as a top pair d is more valuable to us than skinner because we need our D men)) and Karlsson is playing very well right now so yes this now makes less sense.

Imo the trade sucks as well, but I'd like you to tell me how exactly EK is playing very well when he's statistically being one of the worst D-men league wide.

Karlsson's not playing absolutely horribly. He's just playing like a 6mil dollar version of himself -- not 11.5mil.

Problem is that MEV's playing like a 3mil man, Burns like a 4mil man, Kane like a 5mil, Couture like a 6mil, Timo like a 5mil, Banker like a 3.5mil man, Jones like a 1.5mil, hell even Simek like a 1.5mil man.

Only guy who's truly playing above his contact level is Hertl. Donato Nieto and Sorensen are giving good value at their contracts too and Ferraro and Leonard are very good ELCers (not elite but still very good).

Karlsson was absolute ass the first 3 games of the season. But he also had played 0 games since mid January in 2020 so there was an adjustment period. Last 2 games he's looked very solid. Still not perfect, but he's due to break out analytically and statistically if he keeps playing like this and doesn't get hurt again. Shades of 2016 EK65. Problem is the coaching staff is playing Karl with Vlasic who basically makes every player around him worse at this point. Especially whoever his D-partner is. Karlsson has looked okay defensively and borderline elite offensively. He's getting better as time goes on.

Hope they buy out Vlasic. Paying him 10 years is costly, but better than using him.