This is just dumb. Not even off the board

Very unlikely trade first and foremost.
If Hughes thinks his team is ready to take the next step or will be by next year it might be time to strengthen up that D Core. Hands down Montreal has the worst defensive core in the NHL, back that up with the worst goalies in the league and they just can't go anywhere. With Boston and Tampa aging out of playoff spots and Ottawa and Detroit weaponizing towards a playoff spot Montreal might have to get into the race or risk losing the development of their prospects. EK65 is a great defenseman, some think he's a defensive liability but compared to who is on Montreal he's Jaccob Slavin. Montreal has no forechecking coming from the backend or neutral zone momentum changes, EK excels at both those things. EK on the Canadiens guarantees them an improvement over last season, maybe not playoffs but a serious improvement.

San Jose gains a good defensive prospect in Guhle to hopefully replace the hole Karlsson has left and Hutson is a top prospect. The second is for taking on Anderson's god awful contract (he hasn't hit 50 points in his career ffs). The first is for the 8 million dollars the Sharks will retain over four years.

This is what Karlsson is worth and you guys have the worst defense core in the league. Montreal won't be a playoff team for years because of how good the atlantic is. Enjoy cheering for a perpetual bottom feeding team.

“Worst D in the league”😂. Hutson, Guhle are separately worth more than Karlsson. MTL got a top 3 Defense prospect/young player pool in the entire league, and we have a couple already in the NHL. Karlsson had 100 points and yet had -26, I get he was in SJ, but MTL worst +\- guy was Big Eddy with -29, but its freaking Eddy (only 13 pts btw) 😂. Karlsson is only worth a 1st and a decent prospect with some retention involved.

That is WAY to much for Karlsson, Guhle and Hutson alone are worth more considering how likely EK65 is to regressing soon at the giant cap hit.

Did you take the whole brick before writing this?

This is a god awful trade for Montreal. Guhle and Hutson along are worth more then him, with how likely Karlsson is to regress at the giant cap hit, 9.2 mil is still way to much for anyone to take the risk on Karlsson imo.

Secondly, worse defence core? We easily have a top 3 prospect/young defence core in the league with Guhle, Barron and Harris already in the NHL, and with our 2 best not even here yet. Even in the current state, there are much worse teams out there.

Bro how tf, I joined a month after you and you have like 1600 more posts then me. Sept 1st 2022 was 313 days ago, that means u average 5.56 (5 or 6) posts a day.

Posts is comments, ACGM, Mock Trades, Mock Drafts, ect.
5 comments a day isn’t very hard to do

I know it isn’t hard to do once, but consistently for almost a whole year, this isn’t out of shaming, this is out of admiration and respect.

Lol. Karlsson isn’t worth more than a first. Guhle is our best D (worth more than EK alone). Hutson is a top prospect (also worth more). Anderson + first + second is still an overpay for EK. Our D is ok. EK would make it worse