The Sens can't expect to get the whole planet for Karlsson if the other team has to also take a 4 years/7.25M$ problem. Of course the proposal isn't perfect, some things can obviously change.
And sure the Sens want 5-ish good pieces for Karlsson.... but pretty sure offering another elite dman for him can change that a bit.
The main thing the Sens are trying to do is still save money, or they would just keep Karlsson forever. And they do still have to get to the salary floor, and that's where Weber becomes interesting.
Weber is older, and worse (just like every dman in the world when we speak of EK), but paying only 30M$ in salary in 8 years to a dman like Weber is awesome for them, and Weber would also make a greaaat partner/mentor to a guy like Chabot. And if Weber's cap hit eventually becomes a problem, it'll be extremely easy to buyout.
Anyway, the whole point of this is that i'm convinced that swapping Weber + a couple of young assets that are not actually REALLY needed here for Karlsson is actually the only move possible that could save this team without doing a complete rebuild.
And we still need to find a top 6 center to acquire for Pacioretty, since my six top 9 wingers would be Drouin, Galchenyuk, Gallagher, Ryan, Hudon and Scherbak.
