The team with 100 points without Karlsson is not much better than the one with 67 with him?
What they have done in the past is not very intresting when you are looking forward, at least with such a aging team like san jose, it just screams rebuild from san jose. Look at the players in the team, they have no elite fairly young forwards (even their d-men are getting old), Thornton is still their best forward, and he is getting very old.
Btw, ottawa went to sc semifinal with karlsson and got 67 p the season after with karlsson, and with basically the same team, and sc semifinal beats 100p i would say.
San jose best days is behind them for a while. Maybe Karlsson can give some new energy, but that will be short lived. Not the team he should sign a long term contract with. I would not be surprise at all if san jose missed playoff, it is a aging medicore team, and people that say that they are favorites to sc are out of their minds, they are closer to get hughes then sc.