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Because when Larkin, Mantha, Veleno, Zadina, and Podholzin/Cozens/Zegras are all on the roster he will be our 6th best F.

Big news there Brad. I'm sure he's the first kid ever to play hockey who's been dreaming of that.

Is AA a top pair defenseman? Nope. Guys like AA are a lot easier to come by. Top pair D are much more valuable. Giving up something of lesser value to acquire something of greater value is smart management. Signing a long term deal to play in NY because ur fiancee MIGHT become your wife, and she MIGHT finish med school, and she MIGHT intern in NY, and MIGHT become a doctor will look pretty silly if it doesn't happen. It seems like a poor decision for him to make definitive career decisions based on things in his GF's life that are far from certain is all I am saying.

I am going to break out in laughter when she flunks out of med school, gets an internship somewhere other than NY, or they break up altogether. Making those kinds of professional long term plans without even knowing what your long term family/personal situation is yet is just plain dumb and his agent should slap him upside the head.

So 11.5 x 8= $92 million. If another team did sign him at 12 × 7, that would be $84 million. I thought having the extra year was supposed to help teams keep players by spreading out the contract another year. By my math, SJ should have been able to sign him for $10.5 million per year × 8 = 84 million. Signing him to the contract they did would be the equivalent of another team signing him to a 7 year deal worth 13.14 million per season in free agency. The Sharks actually paid him more than he would have gotten as a UFA. Their GM is a horrible negotiator.

And yet he's still better than Broberg.

If Holland was still GM, the Trouba news would have brought all of the Holland trolls out from hiding under their bridges. But Yzerman doesn't make the deal and it's all crickets.

Yeah, well if I was playing against a team who liked to stack the blue line and I wanted to get across, I know what country I would get my players from.

Well then that would mean she hasnt touched anything silver and shiny in 50 years.

Trouba sounds like another Suter. Whipped as cream.

Rangers not taking Byram for sure now. Assuming NJD doesnt go crazy and take Byram, that leaves Colorado and LAK to pass him up.

If only you could go back in time 2 hours

Crowded House never wanted EK either.

I think Byram has top pair potential. I think Cholowski tops out as a 2nd pair. If I can trade a 2nd pair D with a 1st rounder and get a legit 1D, its worth it to me. Its a steep price to pay, but true 1D guys are so hard to come by.

This is a horrible contract. They were the only team who could have stretched the contract to 8 years, and they're still paying him 11 mil per? 10.5 per would have matched the total amount he theoretically could have gotten in free agency (assuming he could have even gotten that). if he reached UFA and got 12×7 from another team (unlikely IMO) than SJS are still paying 4 mil more for an extra year. Is a 37/38 yo Erik Karlsson worth that? iDK.