Trouba is not a FA and can be acquired as a cap dump. If his wife wants a good hospital to work at Stanford is close by.
Trouba and Ekblad are the 2 D that I want and the Sharks have the cap space to acquire both.
Hard pass on Ekblad for me unless he would sign for 3 years or less which is not happening. The guys body is breaking down, Look at all the serious injuries he has been through and all the games he has missed. He is going to be 29, his play is on the decline and he is going to be looking for a 7 year contract to a contender, so for him to sign with us we would have to beat out the market in terms of $.
We are hopefully in playoff/cup contention around the 4-5 year mark, and I expect an Ekblad contract is really going to hamper the team. He will be 34-35 and honestly might look similar to what we have in Vlasic today.
Yes Ekblad looks like a good fit in the short term but in those final few years where we want to be competitive I bet his contract will bite us in the ***