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Confirmed with Link: Sharks trade Eklund, Halttunen and Svoboda to Ottawa for 9th overall.

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Another calculating move by Grier as with the Zetterlund trade. People are gonna throw a hissy fit, and yes, Eklund was a popular player. But he's an established 24-year-old middle-6 one-way, small winger. Clearly the scouts think Stenberg can be much more, so Eklund was the one who had to go because Misa, Macklin obviously, Stenberg, and Will Smith aren't going anywhere. The writing was on the wall when Eklund got his 3-year bridge instead of a long-term deal, and he's not Grier's guy.

We'll see what Grier does with #9, but as always, you can see the vision. Rebuilding teams are going to value a top-10 pick much higher than Eklund, so that'll help too. I think Mike has earned our trust so far, I'm going to ride it out.
 
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Cas said:
He also doesn't do anything offensively except shoot. He's not a puck carrier, nor a playmaker, passer, forechecker, etc. He just shoots.

It's a really good shot, legitimately, but that's all he's going to do at the NHL level. If he's really lucky, he turns into Sonny Milano or Stefan Noesen, that's about the best case scenario I can think of.
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Kasper Halttunen is what people who didn't pay attention think Jonathan Cheechoo was.
 
OrrNumber4 said:
Seeing the Byram trade, I think I overreacted to the Eklund trade...in the sense that values for top picks this draft are apparently insane.


A scout I spoke with a year ago said that Verhoeff should be the 1OA...
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Wtf that was insane for the Hawks to do that lol, lmao even

And i like Verhoeff so much, him and Stenberg is the legit dream if we ain't trading the 9oa for a NHL dmen
 
With Byram, and Nemec gone Grief wiffs again to bring a #1 Dman here. He has done all trading of assets for 3rd and 4th liners. Muck being the only D prospect he traded for and the sharks development has been curiously lousy on his development. Does this trade get them closer to taking a next step? They need a few pieces a true talent. You can say all you want on 1st round talent getting the sharks the contender status but its all speculation, thats why good teams (Fla, VGK) trade picks for legit talent and teams like the sharks do the easier part and just rebuild.

The trend of high end talent getting wary of rebuilding and demanding trades should scare the pants off of every shark fan.
 
rekrul said:
With Byram, and Nemec gone Grief wiffs again to bring a #1 Dman here. He has done all trading of assets for 3rd and 4th liners. Muck being the only D prospect he traded for and the sharks development has been curiously lousy on his development. Does this trade get them closer to taking a next step? They need a few pieces a true talent. You can say all you want on 1st round talent getting the sharks the contender status but its all speculation, thats why good teams (Fla, VGK) trade picks for legit talent and teams like the sharks do the easier part and just rebuild.

The trend of high end talent getting wary of rebuilding and demanding trades should scare the pants off of every shark fan.
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Neither Nemec or Byram are #1D but go off.
 
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Timo Time said:
Neither Nemec or Byram are #1D but go off.
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They don't even have top 4 D now at least those players have talent to play a puck moving top 4 min. Every D in this draft will be lucky to be better than those players. A Quinn Hughes type is a unicorn. Every person thinks thats the standard for a #1. This trade does nothing to bring the team from good to great. In fact putting more into prospects just keeps them rebuilding. Players now have leverage to demand trades that should push Grier to make the 26-27 team much better instead of delaying for 2030
 
The Nemesis said:
You're over-complicating it. I'm sure if some panicky team comes to him on Friday night offering the moon he's not going to say no. But you don't make moves like this in the hopes of maybe sparking aggression out of other teams to maybe offer you a trade package that you think might be amenable. You make moves like this with a definite plan in place and a willingness to consider alternatives as they pop up.
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I think Eklund was gone no matter what and this is just the timing on when to pull the trigger. I think he has multiple irons in the fire and if he was sold on Stenberg would have talked about the pick like he did when people asked about trading out of 1/2 the last two years.

There has been a definite shift in the discussion around that pick this year compared to last that is enough to make you wonder, especially given Stenberg is still a smaller winger and we still have gaping holes on defense without much of a plan to fix them with Byram now going to Chicago (what a fleece by Buffalo on that one).
 
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ThorNton Apologist said:
Looking at the price Byram went for…. Woof
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To play devil’s advocate… If anything, isn’t this even more of a reason to take Reid at #2? If a decent 25 year old middle pairing LHD with average size, little defensive value, and only one more year on a contract that will probably pay him eight figures annually can return a 4th overall pick, it seems like even if Reid doesn’t hit his upside he’d be more valuable than Stenberg.
 
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Juxtaposer said:
To play devil’s advocate… If anything, isn’t this even more of a reason to take Reid at #2? If a decent 25 year old middle pairing LHD with average size, little defensive value, and only one more year on a contract that will probably pay him eight figures annually can return a 4th overall pick, it seems like even if Reid doesn’t hit his upside he’d be more valuable than Stenberg.
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I don’t think drafting a player just based on how his value will be when you trade him will be is the way to think of it. At 2 we should be looking for a player to play his prime years in teal. I think looking at the possibility of trading Reid because he will have good value means he “busts” cuz if he doesn’t bust and is a 1D like so many here seem to think he will be, why would we move him
 
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