John Carlson

Makes perfect sense to me.

Would you rather Jackson Lacombe or John Carlson? I'd rather John Carlson.

Same

here.

Mason McTavish for picks.

John Carlson, the deadline acquisition, gone.

He lands in Tampa Bay.

Jacob Trouba, leader for that group for a while, gone.

Because Cole Hudson can change the Capitals' identity on the defense, that there was a big hole left behind when number 74 got traded out to Anaheim, that there was a feeling of who could possibly fill those shoes.

I think Cole Hudson, at least in part, is one of the guys that is looking to take on what John Carlson left behind and then some, that his skill set is truly next level.

But I think he's up for it.

I think that Cole Hudson can change the identity of the blue line.

But talking about the big summer moves, the forward group.

You add Tuch, they added Kairu and Jenner, that when you look at it, they changed the depth.

They moved on from John Carlson, like I said, and now, right now you've got defensemen who could walk into the lineup and give the blue line something it has not had enough of.

And what is that? Dynamic offense.

I mean, your top four are set.

It's going to be some combination of Victor Hedman, J.J. Moser, Eric Chernak, John Carlson, and Ryan McDonough, right? So actually, your top five are set.

So that kind of just leaves the one spot.

And you're going to battle out between Charles Edward DeStew.

Yeah.

You now have a new look.

You have John Carlson at the point.

You hope to have Braden Point healthy all season.

He is wanting some money.

They say hello to AJ Greer, Nick Jensen, Laurent Brossoit, and Jeff Malott, and they say goodbye to John Carlson, Mason McTavish, Jacob Trouba, Olli Zellweger, Radko Gudas, Jeffrey Veilleux, and Ross Johnston.

And they say hello to a whopping contract for your big boy, um, uh, Carlson.

James, reason for hope and reason for concern.

Who's in? So there's a few changes here.

John Carlson is in.

Ilya Mikheyev is in.

Jeffrey Veal is in.

think they gain.

Yeah, I think he's a little bit...

I think John Carlson is a little bit of a better all-round defenseman and still puts up the points.

he's a little less one-dimensional, you know? But again, the X factor, and you kind of mentioned it in your intro, the X factor is going to be Braden Point, especially for that power play.

traded Noah Phillip to Anaheim for Kyle Masters.

They did get John Carlson.

This was, yeah, they got John Carlson for him.

But then didn't he sign with someone else?

Tampa Bay.

Yeah, so what happened there was right before free agent frenzy, John Carlson was going to be an unrestricted free agent.

Anaheim traded him to Carolina.

Carolina couldn't get the deal done, and Tampa Bay ended up signing him.