{"id":520603,"date":"2026-03-24T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:57:30","slug":"penguins-gm-kyle-dubas-has-no-plans-to-trade-erik-karlsson-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520603\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins GM Kyle Dubas has no plans to trade Erik Karlsson this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears Erik Karlsson<\/a>\u2019s future is with the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas has no intention of moving the veteran defenceman this off-season.<\/p>\n

While Karlsson remains signed through next year at a cap hit of $10 million, he is owed a $6 million signing bonus on July 1 of this year and just $1.5 million in remaining salary beyond that.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old blueliner has 11 goals and 54 points in 65 games this season, on pace for his best output since joining Pittsburgh from the San Jose Sharks<\/a> as part of a three-team trade in 2023. The Sharks retained $1.5 million in the deal to bring Karlsson\u2019s cap hit down to the current $10 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the way he\u2019s playing. I mean, it\u2019s Erik Karlsson<\/a> of old. There will be serious interest in Erik Karlsson<\/a> this summer,\u201d LeBrun explained on Early Trading. \u201cHaving said that, I will tell you that I chatted with Penguins GM Kyle Dubas, who is not happy to have Karlsson\u2019s name out there in terms of trade chatter. He is adamant that Karlsson has been such a great player for them this year, that he views Karlsson as a guy that they will continue to want to retool and put young players around, that he doesn\u2019t see himself wanting to trade him this summer. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to be clear about that with me and to spread the word, I guess, that he doesn\u2019t view Erik Karlsson<\/a> as a trade chip this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Averaging 23:45 of ice time this season, Karlsson was part of Team Sweden at the Olympics last month, posting four assists in five games. <\/p>\n

Karlsson was the subject of trade speculation last summer after a $5 million bonus was paid out on July 1, but said when training camp opened he was not surprised he stayed put. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m not,\u201d Karlsson said, per Wes Crosby of NHL.com. \u201cIt was a quiet summer for me. Didn\u2019t really hear much other than what I read from you guys and all the other people around the league, which is typical for the off-season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karlsson had 11 goals and 53 points in 82 games with the Penguins last season while averaging 23:14 of ice time. The 6-foot, right-shot defenceman is in the seventh season of an eight-year, $92 million contract inked with the Sharks in 2019.<\/p>\n

Selected 15th overall by the Ottawa Senators<\/a> in the 2008 draft, Karlsson has 211 goals and 924 points in 1,149 career games. <\/p>\n

With an aging core that includes Karlsson, Sidney Crosby<\/a>, Evgeni Malkin<\/a> and Kris Letang<\/a>, the Penguins are pushing to make the playoffs this season for the first time since 2022. The team sits second in the Metropolitan Division, but hold just a one-point cushion on the New York Islanders<\/a>, who are currently in the final wild-card spot. <\/p>\n

While Karlsson\u2019s future appears to be coming more clear, the future of Malkin in Pittsburgh remains unclear as the 39-year-old forward approaches unrestricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears Erik Karlsson\u2019s future is with the Pittsburgh Penguins. TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports Penguins general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,60457,5,4,32614],"class_list":{"0":"post-520603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-erik-karlsson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8474578","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116285686175870922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}