2025 NHL Draft: Lose a ton for Porter Martone

[Zarzh]

Id love to see the sharks focus on getting at least 1, if not 2 high end D. Right now the pipeline has Dickinson, LSW, Pohlcamp, Cagnoni, Thompson, and Pohlcamp with a shot and I guess Misskey and roberts are there too.

I am not sold that any of these will be top pairing guys. Definitely potential is there, and its not a bad group for an average team.

That said, we have a #1 goalie, top 2 centers (maybe 3 if you include bystedt), and serveral high end wings with musty, haltunnen, cherny, not to mention Eklund and Gushkin and cardwell, and my top watched prospect, rimashevsky.

As such, I think we could use two more high end defensive prospects if possible, so I would target those. I also think high end are harder to get via trade/UFA than high end forwards, so drafting top D would be nice.

All that said, I would be fine if the sharks dealt a pick or two in a package with one of the forwards to acquire a solid top pairing young NHL Dman. obviously, not a top 5 pick...

The young defensemen who have been traded aren't very good and cost way too much.

 

[Gecklund]

The young defensemen who have been traded aren't very good and cost way too much.

Brock Faber, Jakob Chychrun, Mikhail Sergachev, JJ Moser, John Marino, Noah Hanifin, Sean Durzi, Ivan Provorov all at least second pair level with a few top pair level traded recently (some of these twice). I’m probably forgetting a few and out of this list Faber and Sergachev are probably the level we are wanting but like there are dmen trades out there. Maybe not for 1s (unless we are using wishful thinking)