In fairness that's only because the Karlsson trade dragged out for so long. Sheng reported that the Sharks had a deal in place with Erik Gustafsson on day 1 of free agency but it was contingent on trading Karlsson that day.
They shouldn’t have made it contingent then. Even if they kept Karlsson, they could’ve used another. Would be more useful than signing Burroughs.
Gus probably didn't want to sign with a shit team on the west coast unless he was guaranteed to inherit all of Karlsson's PP1 and other offensive minutes.
I mean he signed for one year at 825k so it doesn’t seem like a demand you couldn’t pay your way out of. Throw him two years, two mil per and I’m sure he’d accept the lesser role risk. Give Burroughs contract at him instead and you cover that base.
Quinn and GMMG should give Pickles full authority to play as much with the puck as he wants while ignoring defense. Maybe he can get a Norris and get traded.
For a while I was working with a band and assisting a soundguy who used to work with the Dead back in the 80s. He told me a story about getting back from tour one day and heading to some shop with Bob Weir, who told him he could pick any Modulus bass off the wall that he wanted, Modulus being a company that made bass necks out of graphite rather than wood (similar to another Bay Area company called Zon). Bob was a big Modulus guy at the time and iirc owned a share of the company.
