Basically no value at all for 16 mil retention. Grier would rather just keep him thanks. If karlsson refuses to play, he breaches his contract and it then gets terminated meaning Ottawa can just sign him

According to Serevelli this is pretty much what is happening. Nobody will offer assets and Grier sees it at $16M retained not $30M+ saved and that's why he isn't being moved.

But Serevelli said he's pretty sure Karlsson gets traded with retention for nothing eventually cause it's been since the deadline and nobody has offered anything.