Mëds wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2026 12:31 pm
Holy SHIT!
Flyers offer sheet Leo Carlsson to the tune of $18M x 5 ($90M). If Ducks don’t match they get a quartet of 1st round picks.
They just traded McTavish, they can’t also lose Carlsson, or they are in a bind down the middle. But $18M for a guy that has not scored at even a 1.0 ppg pace is a brutal overpayment. Philly just fucked themselves and Anaheim in one move.
Has not even scored at a ppg. lol. Nope, all he did was score at a .96 ppg pace last year, a season that he started while being too young to order a beer in an Anaheim bar.
Carlsson is an awesome player. His defense is almost as good as his offense. He’s in the Kopitar/Barkov class of first line centers. These are guys you win cups with. I don’t think it’s an open and shut case that Bedard is taken before him in a redraft. Certainly Carlsson provided more value last season — and that was Bedard’s best.
And it’s Philly’s biggest missing piece. Was Dvorak their 1C? Zegras?
Honestly, I don’t think this is to screw Verbeek. It’s 4 firsts for a unicorn. Philly is happy to pay it, and honestly, their roster looks damn good if this goes through. The $$ is an overpayment, but what the hell. They’ve got the space, money’s easy, finding 1C’s who score, who are big, good on the PP, good on the PK, good 5 on 5, that’s hard. It’s less crazy than giving Kaprizov $17M.
Use your money on the players that really separate themselves. Carlsson is one.
Anaheim’s been rebuilding for years. They managed success last year and now have jack shit outside of LaComb on D. If they lose their #1 center, they take a huge step back (having traded a young center before the draft). They can’t afford to lose Carlsson.
(And it looks like they matched).
