The San Jose Sharks Nonetheless Promoting However Who’s Shopping for?
Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey NOW: So, with fairly a number of prime commerce chips lengthy gone, what can the Sharks do now? Limitations are there clearly. Buffalo, the New York Rangers, and others ponder strikes however San Jose is a staff trending towards youthful expertise that isn’t fairly NHL prepared.
Sure, consultants admit Mario Ferraro is a bottom-pairing defensing making an excessive amount of cash (nonetheless has one 12 months at $3.25 million AAV). Ferraro performs with all kinds of coronary heart however the previous habits die exhausting. He makes the identical errors as when the defender was merely a rookie. It’s unlucky what dropping does. Additionally, San Jose at all times feels beneath siege from an opposing staff’s offense. That doesn’t assist both. Some potential lurks however sufficient to start out a bidding warfare?
Now, that feels unlikely however a mid-round decide could also be what it takes. As for Luke Kunin, he’s the one participant who might extract the best worth. He’s one other 12 months faraway from knee surgical procedure and appears extra like his previous self. After that, late-round picks may very well be had for guys like Nico Sturm and one in every of their goaltenders doubtlessly.
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Does Pittsburgh Strive To Transfer The Needle
Matt Vensel of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: The Pittsburgh Penguins know that the clock is ticking. With days to go till the commerce deadline, Kyle Dubas retains making an attempt to make that transfer which is able to trigger a jolt. Nevertheless, is there one to be made? Ideally, even Jason Spezza (Pittsburgh’s Assistant GM) acknowledged they want extra.
Sadly, Dubas and Pittsburgh possess one blue chip participant in Rickard Rakell. Rakell is on tempo to simply blow previous 30 objectives this 12 months and will even come near 40 objectives. After that, the potential offers solely get extra sticky. Nevertheless, Dubas feels little urgency to make a deal. Rakell has three extra years on his contract and that appears much less worrisome.
Nevertheless, the time to make a transfer could also be now. In any case, the worth in a possible commerce might by no means be larger with Rakell. Not like Erik Karlsson, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang, Rakell has none of these points (NMC, and so forth.) to stress over. Now, does Dubas pull the set off or make a kind of smaller strikes like a Matt Grzelcyk or Anthony Beauvillier?
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