Thread: [Trade] Erik Karlsson to Penguins
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Old 08-07-2023, 10:30 PM   #154
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Originally Posted by wittynickname View Post
Even if he's a 60 point player next year, this is an improvement on the roster this team had 48 hours ago. Given the assets he had to work with, Dubas did about as well as you could reasonably hope for.

It's kinda crazy to evaluate Karlsson rationally because anything under 70 points seems like it's 'really bad'...but it's just really bad for him. 50+ pt defensemen are still a pretty rare breed.

Karlsson had an outlier career low season a few years ago (35 pt pace). Otherwise his second worst season since he was a teenager was a 57 point pace.

If he's only scoring 57 points of course he'll be really overpaid, but that still put him 14th in p/gp among D-men season before last
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