#2 Erik Karlsson
This move will not happen for two reasons. The obvious one being the Caps already made their trade for a defenseman in Joel Edmundson. And two, Erik Karlsson comes at an expensive price.
The San Jose Sharks defenseman’s cap hit comes out to a whooping average annual value (AAV) of $11.5 million. Caps don’t even have close to that. Unless of course they trade Evgeny Kuznetsov and Anthony Mantha. But why would you trade two forwards for a defenseman?
Karlsson’s stats are out of this world though. 25 goals and 76 assists for 101 points as a defenseman is simply insane. John Carlson may have given him a run for his money if he didn’t suffer that severe injury in December.
Maybe move him to forward?