Rumor: Toronto One Of The Teams Erik Karlsson Has Spoken To

[Nineteen67]

Rielly is back there to stabilize things, don't worry.



They can take him + picks for free if they want probably. The cap is the issue.

They’re not giving up picks to move him, but if they did include a couple first round picks it would be worth a thought.
The term is a killer and he’ll be 36/37 IF the Leafs ever open the window.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

If only we had players or assets to trade. If you removed Brodie/Rielly/Liljegren who would San Jose want from TOR? A conditional 1st in 2026? Knies? Aren't we already fairly gutted from the Dubas era?

 

[Mess]

Carolina is in the running for Karlsson services, so I might be interested in a 3-way trade, where the Leafs obtain some players off the Carolina roster like Martin Necas & Brett Pesce & Seth Jarvis.

 

[horner]

Dubas can gut the Penguins for him.

Hard pass.

Pittsburgh has Letang dumb move by dubas thinking again that offense wins in the playoffs.

The only way it works for us unless Rielly is traded

 

[TheDoldrums]

He would be such a massive upgrade over Klingberg. Don't understand people not being interested in a retained Karlsson when we're already paying a homeless man's Karlsson $4M

 

[Legion34]

Hey there bud. Your contract is too big and nobody can fit you in. If you are really all about that winning, accept a mutual contract termination and sign with a team, with whatever $ they have left. I suspect that would never happen though, I wonder why?

Can he do that (I’m sure he wouldn’t) but is that possible? I kept hearing that luongo wanted to tear up his contracf but didn’t…. Then zadina does it.

But wouldn’t that be circumvention? Couldn’t players just take front loader contracts. Mutually terminate when it goes down to 1 million? I don’t see how you can just terminate a deal…..

Otherwise I would be signing platers to front loaded deals to lower the cap than terminate.

 

[Fogelhund]

Can he do that (I’m sure he wouldn’t) but is that possible? I kept hearing that luongo wanted to tear up his contracf but didn’t…. Then zadina does it.

But wouldn’t that be circumvention? Couldn’t players just take front loader contracts. Mutually terminate when it goes down to 1 million? I don’t see how you can just terminate a deal…..

Otherwise I would be signing platers to front loaded deals to lower the cap than terminate.

He could do that, perfectly legitimate. Can’t sign with the same team.

Tony D just did this.

 

[kb]

Burns and Karlsson only thrived (after several so-so years together) once Burns was traded away from SJ. There is a less than zero chance Carolina will pursue Karlsson, unless Burns is going the other way.

 

[socko]

I'm hoping he gets moved to Pittsburgh and Dubas has to clear some cap and we can get some Pens first round picks.

 

[Notsince67]

Samsonov watching Karlsson and Klingberg play defense in front of him.

The PP would be insane though.

PP effectiveness is over rated in winning in the playoffs.

Carolina is in the running for Karlsson services, so I might be interested in a 3-way trade, where the Leafs obtain some players off the Carolina roster like Martin Necas & Brett Pesce & Seth Jarvis.

I read that Toronto isn't one of the teams that Pesce agreed to be traded to.

 

[Buds17]

He would be such a massive upgrade over Klingberg. Don't understand people not being interested in a retained Karlsson when we're already paying a homeless man's Karlsson $4M

Klingberg is on a one year contract that's cheaper than even a Karlsson with full retention would be (and I can't imagine SJ is looking to retain on Karlsson's term deal in exchange for a minimal return). The upgrade in reward isn't likely to be worth the increased risk here for the Leafs.

 

[ACC1224]

He would be such a massive upgrade over Klingberg. Don't understand people not being interested in a retained Karlsson when we're already paying a homeless man's Karlsson $4M

It’s the future years that are scary, IMO.

@Jimmy Firecracker add a poll option.
Interested how many would like the Leafs to pursue this.

 

[Budz]

Too much cap. SJ would have to take Murray and Muzzin and still have a little retention.

 

[TMLAM34]

Doesn’t make sense with Klingberg and Rielly here already. The Leafs probably spoke to San Jose pre Klingberg signing…

 

[PromisedLand]

Since EK has been in the league there are many teams that have gone to SCF and won the cups; he was not on any one of them.

A very hard pass on Karlsson.

Not wasting any futures on him.

The primadonna attitude is surreal though eh? "I want the most money, and now that I have guaranteed money, trade me to the team to win the cup"

Players that ask for most money and then are not capable of taking their team forward should not be sorted after IMO

 

[LeafalCrusader]

I'm pretty sure that the Karlsson discussion was tire kicking by Treliving and before he signed Klingberg.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

I like the “plus others” part of that tweet. Really solid insider info

 

[Dekes For Days]

There are multiple reasons why this wouldn't be a fit that could work, especially after getting Kilngberg,.

 

[nuck]

Dubas can gut the Penguins for him.

Hard pass.

He can and he will!

 

[Nineteen67]

I like the “plus others” part of that tweet. Really solid insider info

Did EK confirm who the other teams are?

 

[rocketman588]

I would be disappointed tbh

Even at 50% retained that contract can go off the rails

I’m not saying I’d be disappointed if we traded for Karlsson, but I have my concerns about him.

Honestly the more I think about it the worse it seems for me. We don't need to go back to torching cap space

 

[DarkKnight]

Hopefully we are sniffing around just to make Dubas want him more

 

[francis246]

Leafs can make it work with double retention and trading Brodie. Not sure what that would cost though. If it’s cheap I wouldn’t be opposed to it

 

[hullsy47]

Hopefully we are sniffing around just to make Dubas want him more

Make the dumbass overpay

 

[francis246]

Burns and Karlsson only thrived (after several so-so years together) once Burns was traded away from SJ. There is a less than zero chance Carolina will pursue Karlsson, unless Burns is going the other way.

Exactly I mentioned that a while ago. I could see Burns being traded back to SJ for Karlsson. Burns loved it in SJ, I know he’s loved in Carolina too but it’s the only thing that makes swnse