Ok, so I've been seeing a lot of people saying this sort of thing, which just feels off to me as someone who has watched the Sharks trade up and down a number of times over the years. So I looked it up and here's what I found (Note: I graded these trades, not based on who
could have been picked in a certain range, b/c we could play that game all day...., but who actually
was picked).
Trading Up in the 1st
2024: 14 + 42 for 11 ➔ ??
2013: 20 (Mantha) + 58 (Bertuzzi) ➔ 18 (Mueller) -
LOSS
2007: 13 (Eller) + 44 (Palushaj) ➔ 9 (Couture) -
BIG WIN
2005: 12 (M. Staal) + 49 (Denny) + 207 (Stoesz) ➔ 8 (Setoguichi)
- WASH
2004: 28 (Fistric) + 52 (Sawada) + 92 (Edler) ➔ 22 (Kaspar) + 153 (Zalewski)
- LOSS
2003: #21 (M. Stuart) + 66 (Marjamaki) + 107 (Bitz) ➔ 16 (Bernier)
- WASH
* Did not count 2007 (Nick Petrecki) or 1997 (Scott Hannan) since the Sharks traded up from the 2nd round into the late 1st for these, but you could score one in each column for these two respectively.
Trading Back in the 1st
2022: 11 (Geekie) ➔ 27 (Bystedt) + 34 (Lund) 45 (Havelid)
- LOSS
2014: 20 (Schmaltz) +179 (Nalimov) ➔ 27 (Goldobin) + 62 (Kirkland)
- LOSS
1998: This year is complicated & a real heartbreaker (
here’s the story for those who weren’t around back then) but in short there were 2 trade backs this year:
- pt 1: 1 (Lecavalier) + Marchment + Shaw ➔ 2 (Legwand) + Nazarov -
LOSS
- pt 2: 2 (Legwand) + 29 (Koch) for 3 (Stuart) + 85 (Cheechoo) -
WIN
1993: 2 (Pronger) ➔ 6 (Kozlov) + 45 (Kroupa) + 58 (Peltonen) + Makarov -
HUGE FREEKIN LOSS
In Total
When trading up, the Sharks had 1 big win, 2 washes, and 2 losses.
When trading down, the Sharks have had 4 losses and 1 win.
TLDR; trading up seems to work actually, far more often than trading back.
What do you all think? Would you quibble with my grades? Am I missing anyone? Or are the Sharks just some massive 3 decade outlier?