is the 3rd round pick an exchange for the assassins needed to get EK out without any incentive?

That may get a pair of Karlsson's old skates.

Maybe if there were zero retention on Karlsson.

Skeptical.

Lol gets Karlssons jock strap

Petry and 4.6M in rentention are not happening

no, not even close even with no retention because prospects+pick is the entire incentive for SJ to even trade EK

Could be. Could be something else. NMC that Karlsson doesn't sound all that flexible on is a problem. I think ownership wants out of the contract. Carolina and Pittsburgh don't have gaps at RD to need him and no other teams are interested in him at this time according to Friedman.

Nah SJ doesn't need to get out of the contract because it's not like they're going to be competitive with the gained cap space. Only reason to trade out EK is to advance the rebuild. They don't even consider trying to trade him if these are the type of returns

Then explain the Burns trade. Because that was a pathetic return made strictly to get out of his full contract.

Burns straight up asked to be traded
Burns is also much older and not as good
When SJ traded him out they were in denial and weren't going towards rebuild as they signed a bunch of guys to retool. Rebuild got kicked off with shipping out Meier.
so it's overall a very bad comparison

Burns contract was also much easier to move and his durability has been superb. The exact opposite circumstances of Karlsson.