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Forum: NHL Signings34 minutes ago
Thread: San Jose Sharks signed Luca Cagnoni (3 Years / $950,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>yikes</b></div><div>Really good player regardless - but I’m in the seemingly shrinking: minority to trade up for Buium or Parekh. It seemed louder a few weeks ago but as you just outlined the predictions are all over the map and the chance of the ladder working out for us. However, I always follow Bobby Margarita due to his historical accuracy and wealth of experience. His latest:

Celebrini
Demidov
Silayev
Lev
Lindstrom
—
Dickinson
Parekh
Buium
Helenius
Iginila
—
Catton
Yakemchuk
Eiserman
Sennecke
Connelly

In this situation I hope for a trade up as I think the Sharks need a gem added to their d core prospect pool.

I could see:

Celebrini
Demidov
Lev
Lindstrom
Iginla
—
Buium
Helenius
Silayev
- Sharks trade up to 9 to get Parekh</div></div>

Totally agree, I can't believe how low Buium and Parekh are on some peoples lists. I guess that's mostly because they fit what Sharks need more than anything (outside of Celebrini of course) so maybe I'm overvaluing them. But honestly if Sharks fell to 3 instead of winning the lottery I would seriously consider one them at 3. if they're available at 9-12 I absolutely think MG should trade up to get one of them.
Forum: Armchair-GM24 hours ago
Thread: SJ Acquire Rasmus Andersson Sign Bertuzzi Roy Then Draisaitl in 2025 Part 1
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CheechYou</b></div><div>1. "Great prospect" has a ceiling of a 3rd line center. Edstrom's solid, not great.
2. Unprotected 1st is true, but Vegas will be among the best teams in the league next season. They have far too many excellent players locked up to suggest otherwise. That pick will be between 24-32.
3. SJ's timeline just hastened with the win of getting Celebrini. They need to build a somewhat competent team for him to flourish, and that starts at the biggest hole of the SJ roster: no top-pairing dman, especially at RD.
4. Andersson's not available next season for free. He has 2 years remaining.

But you have an overall point that's definitely valid: Sharks should remain the course in their rebuild and not trade their young assets, even if it's for a stud dman. The counterpoint I'd make is that SJ would actually be reducing the worth of their top assets in Celebrini+Smith+etc by not investing in a guy like Andersson to make their team better and, at the same time, those very top young players, who get a lot of their development by playing with other more experienced top players. There's other factors in play here too obviously like all the other young players on this roster, whether the top guys play with SJ next season, how much Hasso wants the team to rebound, how bad Grier thinks SJ needs to rebound after the disastrous season, etc.

Overall, I wouldn't do the trade because #14 I think is just a bit too much. If Grier substitutes that with #33, I think he should make that trade, but don't think Calgary would accept.</div></div>

1. Just because his scouting report on here says he projects to a 3C doesn't mean that's 100% accurate. He's very good.
2. That's where the Sharks 19-20 1st was anticipated to land and we all saw what happened there. Vegas is about to lose a LOT of depth as well as high end talent. Their top six with Hertl, Stone, and Eichel is very injury prone and they don't have the assets to replace those guys if they get injured any more. They literally missed the playoffs the year before they won the cup, remember. Also they're 1st this year is at 19th overall and they had a gd superteam. You NEVER know what's going to happen.
3. Their timeline went from "playoffs are hopeful in 3-5 years", to playoffs are EXPECTED in 3-5 years by getting Macklin.
4. True, your title made me think it was 25-26. Regardless, the reason Andersson is so valuable is because he's on a fantastic contract, which will be pointless for a team like the Sharks, who have TINY shot at getting into the playoffs during the duration of that deal, to acquired him.
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 5:14 p.m.
Thread: Canucks
Lmao