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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
In fairness, it is important to distinguish between situations with the puck and without the puck. Defensively, without the puck, Karlsson is terrible. With the puck, he is elite.
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Karlsson is inconsistent without the puck, but when he's on his game (the second half of some of his better seasonss, the 2017 playoffs) he's pretty damn good without the puck. He'll never be a net clearing D, which is why his partnership with Methot was so successful, but he's not terrible without the puck either.