That is absolutely awful. And you're a SJ fan!
For who? Actually think NJD gets the worst of it. A pair of extra seconds for Tierney and Martin sounds about right though. Both help them fill immediate defensive gaps and will help stabilize the ship. Plenty of cap room to spare.
Buffalo gets a ton of cap-space, a Tyler Ennis replacement in Goldobin, and the parts to find a LHD. If you have picks, and more importantly cap space, players are out there. Plus they can show their following that they got good asset return. A first, a 1st round prospect, and 2 2nds! That's more than we paid for Evander Kane.
And the Sharks. For the cost of an aging, slowing veteran who is being way over-payed relative to his performance, a young bottom-6 center, who is not great at Face-offs but PKs and limits goals against, and finally your, (Labanc, O'Regan, Meier, Sorenson?, Goodrow? Carpenter? Haley?) number 4 forward prospect and realistically even deeper in terms of call-ups, for....
Evander Kane, the former 4th OA pick, 20+ goal scorer, who plays a skilled power-forward style, who also happens to be friends with Jumbo and Burns, and also happens to fill a huge gap in the team. Whew thats a lot of good stuff.
I think this is a case where everyone is improved by this - in very neat and simple ways. If you think the Sharks are overpaying, I don't believe it. In a year, Paul Martin will be San Jose's Kevin Beiska. He is already being replaced by Schlemko and Dillion. You have DeMelo, a capable number 6 waiting, and several good plug call ups behind that. Losing him is probably beneficial to the team overall.
I like Tierney, but he is a role player and can be replaced by O'Regan, Carpenter, Wingels, Karlsson, Ward, and Marleau. He doesn't have more than mid-6 potential, and even then, he is much, much more likely to stay a bottom-6 PK specialist.
Goldobin? Got jumped by Donskoi and then Labanc. Being Russian, there is always the KHL risk. And frankly, every time they call up someone else, you have to wonder if he is gonna even see his 9 games this year. Timo is next for sure. So when is he gonna even play. He might have potential, but I would rather the known quantity of Evander Kane, who will get me 20+ goals this season, versus an unproven prospect. And it's not like Goldobin is going for free.
In a vacuum I would do 27 OA, Martin, Tierney for 4 OA. Sounds very reasonable to me. Might even be a bit of an under-payment. I mean 27OA + 2nd + 2nd wouldn't equal 4 OA at the draft.
So honestly, I like it. I think it makes a lot of sense for all the teams. Especially San Jose.