[Friedman] Per the Penguins here is the trade
Per the Penguins, here is the trade. SJ retains $1.5M of Karlsson’s salary…Pittsburgh retains 25 per cent of Petry’s. pic.twitter.com/gxQSKSNZoi
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) August 6, 2023
by samurai5764
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Glad we didn’t do this, looking at how much was retained
Time to find a taker for Pesce
We knew it was going to happen when Friedman was on it earlier.
Between that and the TDA move, it felt like the Canes have been out for a bit.
People are going to be mad at the return and complain that the Canes didn’t do the trade, but the Canes just don’t have any bad contracts that would have made the salaries match. That’s been the “problem” all along.
So glad we didn’t do this. Side note the Canadians probably end up winning on this deal more than the Pens
Good, now let’s focus on getting what we actually need, a trade for a 40 goal scorer.
Basically the Sharks facilitated taking on some assets they can flip and got less retained than they were even talking about taking.
It’s a bit of a gamble that they can get enough of a return on the guys they brought in to actually provide value in this deal but the money retained at 1.5M is insane when you consider they moved out 10m of the deal.
This is one of those swing for the fences moves and the canes weren’t in a position to take on that much cap space especially at what it would cost to move out our guys.
Wish he was a cane but it makes sense why we didn’t do it.
No way we would’ve been able to put together a comparable deal. Clearing $9-10M of cap space would be difficult enough because we don’t really have any “bad” deals. Anyone we dealt for the purpose of actually clearing money would have major implications. It also doesn’t help how MANY players Pittsburgh dealt off. For Pittsburgh it makes sense because most of those guys were next to useless. We don’t have that problem atm. All we’d be doing is deconstructing our lineup for the sake of adding a high-dollar player to an already saturated position
I’m still not really worried about the Penguins. The most annoying part of this is that they gave up jackshit but if it’s us, the trade has to involve Jarvis or Nikishin. It’s the Timo trade all over again
Lose lose trade lol
Yeah we could not afford to give up $10m of cap for Karlsson, and even if we could it would make zero sense. Very glad it’s Pittsburgh doing this and not us
Canes weren’t in the market for a $10 million Karlsson. The amount retained was always a big factor.
Great news for the Canes!
Nylander or Lindholm or We Like Our Group at this point. Fine with all 3, honestly.
Before last season the conventional wisdom was questioning whether Karlsson could be a positive contributor on a winning team at his age and limitations on defense. After this season people think he is literally a better defenseman than Slavin. I would say the truth is somewhere in between, and ultimately a good move by Donny Wads to avoid this clear overpay.
I am SO GLAD we didn’t do this. Only retaining 1.5m is such a huge win for the sharks. Pittsburgh’s rebuild is going to be drawn out and horrible in a year or two
Glad this is done so we don’t have to worry about what stupid trade we’d have done for what is essentially a forward that occasionally plays defense.
EK is really nothing short of a defensive liability. IMO our defense would have been worse off with him.
The backlog has finally broken. Hoping this means some final news for us in the couple of weeks. But we will see. Don’t technically need to do anything at the moment, though.