The Erik Karlsson Watch

spader wrote:So what do you do? Put Picard on waivers? Waive or trade Schubie and keep Picard as the 7th?

marakh wrote:

N4L wrote:

marakh wrote:Be careful with your predictions guys, last year most of the people were putting Brian Lee in a top 4 position, and now Erik Karlsson and PIcard have replaced him at the bottom pairing?
Brian has less than 60 regular season games under his belt and he is already thrown under the bus... Yet he still played 18-20 minutes the last 2-3 months of the season paired with Philips and it was easily our best tandem when Kuba was injured.
I obviously think Karlsson will be better but it doesn't mean Brian Lee should be thrown under the bus in favour of 2 players who clearly, haven't proven anything more than him at the NHL level.

I would absolutly say that Picard has shown he is a much better offensive player then Lee... It's not even close.

Sure, but at the moment, if you have Campoli and Kuba on the roster, I'd rather have a last pairing with a more well positionned defenseman with Karlsson (if he's in), which Lee is over Picard IMO. The other reason is, I think Brian Lee needs as much ice time as we can give him to develop properly.

Bottom line, I'm not giving up on a Defenseman who has 60- games under his belt and has showed signs of good poise.

marakh wrote:Totally forgot about the shots. In this case, the lines must be reshuffled, I'll leave that to the line specialists. Brian Lee played with Philips at the end of last year, could very well be the same this year.

N4L wrote:Schubert for a 3rd or 4th? No shot. At very best, a 5th rounder, more likely a 6th.

N4L wrote:

marakh wrote:Totally forgot about the shots. In this case, the lines must be reshuffled, I'll leave that to the line specialists. Brian Lee played with Philips at the end of last year, could very well be the same this year.

That basically puts Campoli on the 3rd pairing when he showed so good chemistry with Kuba last year... dont know if you do that.

Basically, what happens is Lee has to play himself onto the team, Karlsson has to play himself off of it. I think Picard will be there if he isnt traded. Also almost 1/2 the cap hit of Lee.

spader wrote:

N4L wrote:Schubert for a 3rd or 4th? No shot. At very best, a 5th rounder, more likely a 6th.

You don't think a team like San Jose that can't afford to ice a full team would pay a little extra for a utility man?

N4L wrote:

marakh wrote:Totally forgot about the shots. In this case, the lines must be reshuffled, I'll leave that to the line specialists. Brian Lee played with Philips at the end of last year, could very well be the same this year.

That basically puts Campoli on the 3rd pairing when he showed so good chemistry with Kuba last year... dont know if you do that.

Basically, what happens is Lee has to play himself onto the team, Karlsson has to play himself off of it. I think Picard will be there if he isnt traded. Also almost 1/2 the cap hit of Lee.

davetherave wrote:

spader wrote:

N4L wrote:Schubert for a 3rd or 4th? No shot. At very best, a 5th rounder, more likely a 6th.

You don't think a team like San Jose that can't afford to ice a full team would pay a little extra for a utility man?

@Spader> where do you get the notion that SJ can't afford to ice a full team? CapGeek.com has them at 22 players with almost a million left in cap room.

Schubert might be of interest (but so might Anton Babchuk, Dennis Seidenberg or Marc Andre Bergeron). As N4L says, Schubie doesn't have much market value. It being the last year of his contract, he should be motivated though...which could be good for the Sens.

IMHO Karlsson has the talent to push for a Top 4 spot. He could prove Ottawa's equivalent to Luke Schenn and what he did last year, in terms of his impact on his own team's roster.