Karlsson's a UFA next year though. It's not as easy as "re-sign" him.
There's better cities to live. There's teams that will open up the wallet larger for him. There's teams that would be more likely to challenge with him. There's teams with more stability. There's teams with more competent management, management that isn't been charged with harrassment, and less problematic owners.
Usually the re-signing teams have a bit of an upperhand as the players may have established roots and want to stick around with their teams who they've become close with. Karlsson's experience, and his wife's, over the last year may have just soured him completely. No one would blame him for wanting to get out of that gongshow of an organization.
So now do you trade Hoffman to appease Karlsson and only have Karlsson leave anyways?
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