Quoting: BOLTLOVER1
Yes on Johnson and Gourde deals .. 2nd rounders fine for them to me .. HUGE no on Erik "Damaged Goods" Karlasson and agree with above that no more than 4th for Callhan straight up or else you just keep him
The argument on EK is meh: as Lightning’s Fox Sports Sun analyst Brian Engblom once said, “Erik Karlsson at 85 percent is probably better than 99 percent of the players at 100 percent. His anticipation, his hockey sense, is off the charts. It’s as good as anybody, Sidney Crosby, I don’t care who. He used to not care enough about defense but I think that’s gone.”
The guy in the 5 seasons prior to this one has missed a total of 16 games.
He is injuried, he'll heal. If Bouwmeester was able to fully recover from a ankle surgery, so would Erik mofo Karlsson. And he's 28, not 34.
And think about the playoffs, a puck carrying Dman like him would be perfect to contrast the trap game if the opposing team tries to do that to us.
If we have a chance to get the best Dman of his generation, with THAT AAV!!!, you don't even have to think about it twice.