Quoting: Leafsfan98
This is probably the most interesting trade in at least the past 5 years (if not 10).
OTT got:
- Chris Tierney/Dylan Demel/Balcers: Cap dumps, no need to talk about this much
- 2020 1st (Tim Stuzle): Is this good value? Yes, was it predicted that the Sharks would be terrible at the time? No. I think the Sens just got very lucky here and end up with a very good centre
- 2021 2nd (Zach Opstachuk): long shot prospect, could he be good in the future? Yes. But for right now, Meh
- 2019 2nd (Jamieson Rees): I honestly don't know who this is so no comment
- Josh Norris: Long shot prospect who's currently not able to stay healthy if his life depended on it
SJ got:
- Francis Perron: Really a nothing asset
- Erik Karlson: 100+ point defensemen, signs the most amount of money/season for a current denfensmen, helped SJ get to conference finals and 2nd round but demanded a trade which caused his value to drop.
What do I think of the trade, 5 years later: Ottawa got very lucky with how poorly SJ's preformance and SJ was stupid to put in the condition... SJ screwed up the contract negotiation and Karlson has only showed up in 1/5 of his tenure as a Shark
The Senators got lucky. Norris was projected as a 3C or most optimistically a middle 6C. The most optimistic fans thought that maybe San Jose might have a down year and Ottawa could pick in the 10-16 type range. It was clear they were an ageing team, but nobody expected 3re overall.
Add in the additional luck of LAK taking Byfield. Ottawa had Stutzle at 2 on their internal list. So Ottawa effectively got a 2nd overall pick out of the Karlsson trade.
The Duchene trade is a bit similar, only that unlike the Karlsson trade, people already felt that Ottawa overpaid for Duchene on day 1, and then it just got worse. Nobody thought San Jose overpaid by giving up a possible late 1st and a handful of B and C level assets for Karlsson.
If Sogaard pans out as a star goalie for Ottawa, it might be the closest thing we will ever see in hockey to a Herschel Walker type trade. 1C, 1G, and 2C all filled for 10 years out of one trade.
It's a shame there aren't more mechanisms for teams to move around cap. Like maybe retention that can be spread out over a longer period of time. Karlsson is basically held hostage on a rebuilding team, and San Jose is prevented from getting assets for someone playing like a franchise player. All because the salary cap makes Karlsson, even as a franchise player, a toxic asset.