Difficult EK question...

[sens4life]

What if the best deal available to the Sens was dealing with the leafs? What if the leafs put the best offer *by far* on the table...

Given what happened with Hoffman, my worry is a team like the leafs would scoop in and take EK from whoever we trade him to (San Jose style...)

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[Fandlauer]

We won't be competing for years. The Leafs are light years ahead of us right now. Take the best trade offered.

 

[Sensung]

F the Leafs.

According to some of their brilliant fans they don't need EK because they have Reilly.

 

[topshelf15]

F the Leafs.

According to some of their brilliant fans they don't need EK because they have Reilly.

Yep,and last season when he was getting smoked by having to deal with the toughest mins and on ice starts and looking closer to Ceci...They couldnt deal him for a bag of pucks....

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

It’s all relative to other offers. If the Leafs hands down gave the best offer bar none then yes.

If their offer is just a tad better and isn’t too much more impactful then go with a different one assuming it’s out of conference.

 

[Silencio]

Any "best offer by far" would have to start with Marner.

Realistically I could see the Leafs offering something like Nylander/Dermott/2019 first if they lose out on Tavares.

 

[Samsquanch]

The team would lose too much money from fans jumping ship. We are already a small island in a ocean of leafs and habs fans and media.

Trading our only superstar in the middle of a rebuild to the leafs (who are getting ready to contend) would sour/stunt/kill an entire young generation of Sens fans.

Of course the die hard Sens fans would still be fans. But to the casual fan, watching the leafs would become easy to do if Karlsson was there, and it would be infinitely more fun than watching the mess that is the current Sens team.

It would be the worst possible move from a business standpoint.

 

[DrakeAndJosh]

Any offer with the leafs better have Marner coming back the other way.

 

[BritishSen]

Front Office may be lining their pockets, but losing Karlsson and not only that letting him go to the leafs would be suicide and they know that. Honestly think they'd turn down over the odds offers for him, providing they could guarantee him staying for two big reasons. 1) he's probably the most marketable player this organisation has had and is ever likely to have any time soon and 2) keeping Karlsson is huge for the floating voters in the melnyk debate, will also ensure that crowds wouldn't drop as well

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

I hope the Leafs never win a damn thing and im willing to sacrifice to help ensure that.

Hard no from me, take the lesser offer.

 

[Spirit of 67]

Take whatever option 2 is.

 

[Boud]

I would make the deal.

 

[Brannstorm]

Sure but the Toronto fans would never see their best prospects and some good young players come to Ottawa either. Even as it is now a lot of teams would sell the farm to get Karlsson.

In your hypothetical Toronto would be offering soo much that it would probably cause them harm in the long run and they may never make it past the first round again.

 

[The Lewler]

What in the sevens hells is this abomination of a Sophie's choice ?

 

[SPF6ty9]

IF he's traded, just get the best deal, who cares where he goes. No point letting fear trump logic.

Does anybody really even hate the Leafs as much these days anyways? We haven't really had relevant games against them for years (usually cause we've been good and they've been bad). I definitely dislike the Canadiens much more right now.

 

[tony d]

The Leafs offer especially if it has Marner, Liljegren, Kapanen and a 2019 1st as part of it.

 

[Stylizer1]

We don't have a good track record dealing with the Leafs.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

You don't step over a $20 to reach over and pick up a $10.

Take the best deal available.

 

[Adele Dazeem]

Never! If Karlsson is traded (which he won't) he'll be moved out West

 

[Spartachat]

Karlsson for Matthews, Marner and Nylander would sound fair to me. Melnyk might be too cheap to re-sign them though.

 

[BigCanadian]

IMO you gotta take the best deal when dealing with your best assets. If that means they go in division, so be it. Restricting the market doesn't help you and depreciated the value of your asset. The more buyers the better for the return. All things being equal, you move them far away, BUT if the offers are substantially better in the east, you gotta take it. Where is the tipping point --- good question. Similar offers where the deal in the east comes with an extra 5th rounder included...no. But there should absolutely be a tipping point where the deal in conference is substantially better.

I think we dealt Lehner to Buffalo BECAUSE we got a 1st and the other offers were not a 1st. That is how it should be. Why we didn't do it with Hoffman would only be out of respect for Karl so HE didn't have to face him much.

No way we don't strongly consider all offers for EK65, including from a rival like TOR or MTL.

 

[L'Aveuglette]

Sure, I'd accept a deal with the Leafs if it was incredibly one-sided in our favor.

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

Never! If Karlsson is traded (which he won't) he'll be moved out West

And if the Leafs offer is objectively the best one, who's to say that Western team won't flip him right back to the East? Happened with Hoffman.

 

[Sensung]

And if the Leafs offer is objectively the best one, who's to say that Western team won't flip him right back to the East? Happened with Hoffman.

You can make it a condition of the trade

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

You can make it a condition of the trade

Eh. If I'm an opposing GM and Dorion tries to limit my options post-trade, I think I'd use that as a reason to justify giving up less value.