On Sunday, the San Jose Sharks lastly dealt Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson, buying and selling the star defenseman to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a three-way take care of the Montreal Canadiens.
Nonetheless, after a lackluster return, Shayna Goldman of The Athletic believes the Sharks blew one other probability to jump-start their rebuild.
“Now the Sharks have moved their two greatest commerce items in Karlsson and Timo Meier with pretty underwhelming returns again,” Goldman wrote. “These had been the offers that ought to have introduced again items to essentially push this rebuild alongside and San Jose missed the chance.”
The Sharks acquired forwards Mikael Granlund and Mike Hoffman, defenseman Jan Rutta and Pittsburgh’s protected 2024 first-round choose in trade for Karlsson and retained 25% of the defenseman’s contract.