How did Karlsson make it

101 points?

Also on the ice for a league leading 126 GA at even strength. He was the first player to break 100 GA in the last 15 years.

Who cares. He put up 101 points.

Also the worst defender to play defense in the league.

Who cares. He's on the third line with a responsible partner. You're nuts if you're leaving him off the team

Nope, completely sane. There’s already a ton of offensive talent from the defense in McAvoy, Fox, Dahlin, and Makar. Adding Karlsson would improve the offensive talent, but he is not good enough offensively to justify how much worse he is defensively. This team can already run a PP without Karlsson, but the PK would be significantly better if Hedman or someone similar was in the lineup instead of Karlsson.

This team definitely takes Venus and Mars. I'm not sure they could hold a candle to Saturn though.

Hedman sucked last year