Three months after trade, Erik Karlsson and the Pittsburgh Penguins play the San Jose Sharks tonight at SAP Center.
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson celebrates his goal with Sidney Crosby in the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Detroit Red Wings Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Detroit. SAN JOSE – Speculation continued for months earlier this year as to how the San Jose Sharks were going to trade Erik Karlsson and get decent value in return without retaining a huge amount of money.
“There were occasional GMs that lobbed lowball offers at us,” Sharks president Jonathan Becher said recently, but that in the end, “there were three, sometimes four teams that were in the neighborhood of a reasonable deal, and eventually we got one done that makes sense.” “I don’t think that was Hasso’s decision,” Becher said. “I think that’s the three of us that came to the conclusion that of the balance of things we can do, this is the best way to handle this situation. To make that Hasso’s decision is a little bit of a simplification.”
The NHL salary cap is projected to rise from $83.5 million to between $87-$88 million next season when the players will have paid back the owners in full the roughly $1.5 billion escrow debt they incurred in the 2019-20 season. Grier has said he’s not looking to trade either Couture, 34, or Hertl, 29, and neither centerman has said they want to be traded. But like Karlsson, those players could also be nearing the stages of their respective careers where being a part of a long rebuild would lack appeal.
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