Confirmed with Link: Sharks trade 20th pick to Sabres for 27th and D Michael Kesselring (RFA)

[1specter]

Grier has been killing it for you guys, this is a fantastic move

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[Chainshot]

I do expect Mike is going to try and get something done now instead of waiting, but I don't know why MK would unless the deal is too sexy to pass up.

Coming off his healthy issues, he might want the security of a longer deal.

 

[weastern bias]

Better than Schneider, lol

 

[vortexx]

Really love this deal and it fills an obvious need adding a RHD with a ton of size and mobility that is also only 26 and can fit our timeline. The cost of moving down from #20 to #27 doesn't hurt as much in this draft class in my opinion as there isn't as big of a gap in talent. Sure we might miss out on a faller like Lin or a higher upside forward in Klepov, but I honestly doubt they were the targets for Grier at #20. #27 still puts us in the range to draft a power forward type like Mutryn or Pugachyov or one of the D with size and mobility like a Sokolovskii/Shcherbakov/Hakansson or even the smaller offensive D could be there like a Bleyl/Villeneuve if that is the direction they want to go.

 

[mogambomoroo]

Very good move by MG! I love when these type of deals happen where a lot of fans have been kinda banging the drum for a player, Kesselring was one of them. He'll get every chance to succeed. Now let's build a tower of defence and screw other teams up.

 

[Sharkz4Fun]

Guess this marks the end of any potential Byram move.

Hopefully

 

[Erep]

If you told me the player we drafted at 20 turned out to be about as good as Kesselring, I would have been very happy.

 

[ChompChomp]

Great trade! Grier pulled off a good one to get a 6'5" RHD!!

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Absolutely love this trade. He was solid before he was traded by Utah and would much rather have him with some upside than Durzi. Welcome to San Jose the "King" and his cats

I trust you on this because if he was a bad player, you would instantly let us know.

Good trade Grier!

 

[sampler]

Guess this marks the end of any potential Byram move.

I dont think Byram was on the block. Buffalo just had its first real run in like two decades. they arent going to turn around trade one of the big 4. Those four D (power, Byram, Dahlin, Samuelsson) are going to be the core of the Buffalo D for the next 5-10 years. Byram will be extended this summer accordingly.

That's why Buffalo was willing to part with kesselring so cheaply. They knew he had no future there, so they took whatever they could get (a mid 2nd equivalent).

 

[coooldude]

Near universal praise for the deal on the main boards. Nature is healing

 

[NiWa]

I think with how the tiers seem to be working out, moving down like this is basically a nonfactor

Except there are always fallers.
But we needed an RHD badly and I am glad we still hold a first.

 

[Munnyro]

I like Kesselring. He is a salty SOB.

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

Now if he could just trade 2nd overall, Muhk and Musty for Seider or 2OA for 3rd OA and Horenk and sign Trouba we’d be set

 

[Hodge]

So we basically got Kesselring, LSW and the 27th pick for having to put up with Walboy and his Fortnite addiction for 6 months. Not bad.

 

[ChompChomp]

If we are able to re-sign Desharnais, then we have two right handed redwood trees worth of dmen! lol

 

[crankshaft mechanic]

Reddit: Now we HAVE to draft Stenberg at 2.

 

[TheBeard]

I dont think Byram was on the block. Buffalo just had its first real run in like two decades. they arent going to turn around trade one of the big 4. Those four D (power, Byram, Dahlin, Samuelsson) are going to be the core of the Buffalo D for the next 5-10 years. Byram will be extended this summer accordingly.

That's why Buffalo was willing to part with kesselring so cheaply. They knew he had no future there, so they took whatever they could get (a mid 2nd equivalent).

It's more he had one year left on his deal and I expect Buffalo is more determined now to get him and Benson locked up longterm than Tuch.

 

[TheBeard]

So we basically got Kesselring, LSW and the 27th pick for having to put up with Walboy and his Fortnite addiction for 6 months. Not bad.

I hope Mike is doing the Griddy

 

[vortexx]

Jason Demers gets his wish haha

 

[Surfer Dude]

Love this deal for the Sharks.
Way better than the Nurse, Reilly etc that some posters were discussing lol.

Edit: Demers really deserve credit for being the first to mention him that i can recall on Sheng's pod.

 

[ChompChomp]

Love this deal for the Sharks.
Way better than the Nurse, Reilly etc that some posters were discussing lol.

Those could still happen, in theory, but yeah this is much better.

 

[mogambomoroo]

Now get Trouba at free agency and you have some sort of large defensive group taking care of young core.

Dickinson - Trouba
Mukhamadullin - Kesselring
Orlov - Desharnais

 

[Surfer Dude]

Great trade! Grier pulled off a good one to get a 6'5" RHD!!

hoping he could be our KAndre Miller. Not really the same types but still.