Talking to sources about a different matter and I stumbled upon a source who informed me the Sens have opened up their possible suitors in the potential Karlsson sweeps... "It was previously true, at the deadline for instance, that the Sens were not willing to even discuss the possibility of moving their star defender to a team in division, especially not one of their eastern Canadian rivals...this weekend I was told they now 'won't rule out' that scenario..."
This makes the potential sweeps far more interesting, because two of the teams who could most use an Erik Karlsson are Toronto and Montreal....both have big needs on the defensive end of things...