So San Jose has a choice between paying $11.5 million for a top three offensive defenceman in the league or $10.75 million for...Darnell Nurse.

Holland should have a statue next to Wayne if he pulled that off. What an anchor that contract looks like

Edmonton declines

Nurses contract is going to age a lot better then Karlssons I wouldn't do that trade if I was oilers, also the oilers already have powerplay defensmen in bouchard,

Can't happen, Nurse has a NMC til 2027. He would veto any trade to a non-competitor.

With Bouchard on PP1 adding EK65 just doesn't make sense to me for EDM. Targeting another 2-way Ekholm-type seems way smarter for this group; maybe Pesce?

Letang and Burns are capable PP qbs yet those teams are the ones interested in Karlsson.

I've read those rumours too, and they both seem like odd fits to me.

PIT makes some sense. I think Karlsson would actually fit well with Sullivan's system and Pettersson can pair with him responsibly giving Graves and Letang the defensive matchups. Karlsson is a better offensive version of Petry. Their team and blue line could use a transformation. Carolina makes little sense to me. Burns is a 4F just like Karlsson. Their defense was already the best and most offensively productive. Pesce is a very different player from Karlsson. If they unload Pesce and add Karlsson- especially with Deangelo their entire RD is filled with 4Fs. Lack of winger production is their biggest issue so maybe that is their intent? Never seen that done before.

Edmonton needs Nurse a LOT more than they need Karlsson. I don't think they'd do this even if you removed the ancillary pieces.

Worst contract in the league Nurse or Jones. Its a coin flip. I would not trade EK65 for Nurse ever.