If karlsson leaves after a year how can this be a bad haul?. Norris balcers 1 st round pick second round pick Tierney plus whatever else. Also if karlsson has lingering foot issues excellent sell on a stock that maybe going down. San Jose has to win the cup good luck going through preds jets knights kings ducks and whoever else I'm missing.
I’ve watched quite a bit of Norris, im not convinced he will become anything special in the nhl.
Balcers seems like he might become a decent middle six winger in the least valuable position in hockey.
Tierney likely is at his ceiling as a 3rd line centre.
Demelo is nice but won’t be more than a third pairing guy.
A first round pick as late into the first round turns into an impact player roughly a quarter of the time.
Erik Karlsson is an elite player.
San Jose had far better prospects than the ones they gave up. They used their excess to acquire what could be a difference maker and the guy who almost single handed lay hauled a weak Ottawa team to within 1 goal of a Stanley cup final. San Jose might just have gotten what they needed to win a cup without sacrificing much, they broke the rule that if you want to acquire an asset then you need to sacrifice an equal asset at minimum.
If a team like Pittsburg got what Ottawa did for a player, we would be like “oh cool, depth. That team is better”. When Ottawa got that we knew that they didn’t acquire a single piece they could build around.
Ottawa doesn’t have a good prospect pool. The goal in trading Karlsson was to build something for the future. You can’t build a team around the 3rd liners they got. Look at the Patches trade, it was built around one prospect that has a chance (though small) of being a first line player. Ottawa failed at that.
Even if Karlsson walks, San Jose swing at the cup. Ottawa’s swing was to try to get something they could use to swing at it in 5 years and they didn’t.
