Karlsson always had a sizable portion of people on HF who just visit every thread and shit on him. It's very strange, it's like they're emotionally invested in their belief that he's a bad player or overrated. I really don't understand, you can think other defenseman than him were better, but to try to pretend like the guy isn't a HHOF player or wasn't that good just makes it look like you don't know what you're talking about. These people actually think they're living in a world where Phil Housley makes the HHOF but Karlsson doesn't.
Except there were none of those threads, or at least they were rare. People like to whine about them, but I literally didn't see many threads comparing Karlsson against Orr, or saying he's the modern Orr, and I was on HF everyday back then. I mean I'm sure there were 1 or 2 (just like how there's "is McDavid > Gretzky?" threads every now and then), but the way people whine about them you'd think that there were threads every week about how he's better than Orr.
Maybe not a lot of Orr vs Karlsson threads, but he was everywhere on here. The worst ones were usually Karlsson vs Subban.
At first I thought that’s an easy yes too. A Norris and two more top 3 finishes and huge offensive numbers for a d man. But some of his numbers weren’t as a dman and I don’t know when that started. A bigger fan of his will have to educate me.
D. I think his talent level was there but I don't feel like his prime was long enough to make him a "lock".
Same length as Eric Lindros. When you get to peak that high for half a decade, you become one of the defining player of your generation. I surely hope a museum that's supposed to preserve hockey's history would celebrate those players before the Mark Recchis and Sergei Zubovs of this world.
