Confirmed with Link: Penguins acquire Erik Karlsson for Granlund, 1st rounder in 2024, Rutta, Petry, DeSmith (more in first post)

[Lust for Life]

Full trade:

PIT receives: Karlsson ($1.5M retained), Rem Pitlick, Dillon Hamaliuk, 2026 third round from SJS
SJ receives: 2024 first round from PIT (top 10 protected), Granlund, Rutta, Hoffman
MTL receives: 2025 second round from PIT, Petry (25% retained), DeSmith, Legare

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[KareemTrustfund]

Excellent news

 

[Randy Butternubs]

OMG !!!!!1!!!!!!♀!

 

[Zbynek]

Will be beautiful to see him play with Sid... welcome EK65!

 

[Lust for Life]

More confirmation. Details will be interesting.

 

[Malkinstheman]

 

[Turin]

Happy Erik Karlsson Day.

 

[3ladesof5teel]

Great Day for Penguins Hockey, don't even need to see the return

 

[Malkinstheman]

Oh baby, if nothing else this team might be fun to watch again.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

He did it. The crazy son of a b did it

 

[3ladesof5teel]

Great Day for Penguins Hockey, don't even need to see the return

Sid Geno and Granlund for EK : )

 

[xlm34]

If Granlund and Petry are involved, Dubas will have gotten rid of everyone Hextall acquired outside of Rakell and Carter (who isn’t possible to move), right?

 

[Dominance]

Awesome. The last years of the “window” (if it remains) will at least be hockey worth watching, even if we give up 4 goals a game…and that’s all we can really ask for after such a terrific run!

If Pettersson remains in top form, our defense is very very nice. Great blend of strong defender and quality puck mover on each pair!

Graves-Letang
Petterssson-Karlsson
Smith/POJ-Rutta

 

[Gurglesons]

Excited to see how we pulled this off lol

 

[Empoleon8771]

I woke up and was about to go back to sleep, but I thought "hey maybe go check twitter to see if there was anything about Granlund".

I did not expect to see the breaking news of Karlsson to the Penguins.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Just like we knew we would...

Drink up fellas...!

 

[Empoleon8771]

LMFAO Petry is going to back to Montreal

 

[WickedWrister]

 

[Peat]

If Granlund and Petry are involved, Dubas will have gotten rid of everyone Hextall acquired outside of Rakell and Carter (who isn’t possible to move), right?

Rutta, Ty Smith, Friedman, and I'm not sure on timing of Lafferty/Nylander trade and whether he counts

 

[ThosePuckingPenguins]

Even if you don’t believe we’re contenders, I just wanted to see ownership/management group make one big splash to try and swing for the fences in the last couple years of this era. Trading for Karlsson certainly qualifies as such. Great news.

 

[Andy99]

If Granlund and Petry are involved, Dubas will have gotten rid of everyone Hextall acquired outside of Rakell and Carter (who isn’t possible to move), right?

No, Smith would still be here unless he’s going to SJ

 

[Extra Texture]

Omg, I know this has been one of the most telegraphed moves in recent history, but I'm elated (depending on us not getting completely rinsed).

This is Erik f***ing Karlsson. The EK65. If we were still living in the year 2018, the league would've intervened to stop us from having 3 HOF-calibre game breakers on one team.

Good LORD this is a big balls of steel move. This is a massive roll of the dice saying "we believe in this core" rather than just meekly accepting a gradual demise. Bring on the f***ing season. HELL YES

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Well I was going to start exercising but instead I'm just going to sit here and continually click 'refresh'.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I still legitimately cannot believe that Petry did not have Montreal on his NTC. It blows my mind after all of the crap we heard last year about him wanting out.

Maybe it was just the COVID restrictions and nothing else.

 

[WickedWrister]

I hope it's less than 1.5 "1sts" worth of value