When the Dallas Stars traded a 2020 second round pick and recent seventh round pick Dylan Ferguson to the Vegas Golden Knights for Marc Methot, fans were split on the move. Many saw Methot — who played with Erik Karlsson on the Ottawa Senators’ top defensive pairing — as the ideal partner for John Klingberg, and hoped Methot’s steady defensive game would help Klingberg develop into yet another Swedish blue line superstar.
Others saw Methot as a possession black hole who was arguably holding Karlsson back, and that the veteran defenseman could potentially worsen Klingberg’s game while eating up the ice time of some of the younger defenseman on the roster, such as Esa Lindell.