Team: 2018-19 San Jose Sharks

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 10, 2018

Published: Oct. 10, 2018

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Sharks get a 20+ goal scoring winger with very good size, speed, and defensive awareness for the next two years at a reasonable cap hit in the prime of his career.

Rangers are rebuilding and they get a very good young defenseman who has shown that he can be a top$ dman, a reasonable PKer (though melker is more of a capt throw in), one of the top prospects who is currently leading the WHL in scoring, tearing up juniors. and a 2nd rounder, which is a solid pick.

all in all, the rangers get a couple good future assets and a player who can slot into their D now in exchange for a player who would only have one year left anyways.

NYR is 0-3 and in a clear rebuild. Hayes is obviously on the way out, but keeping Kreider makes little sense either. Sharks can swoop in much like karlsson and snatch a good young player.

lastly, the sharks are carrying 8 D, so it's a waste. If they can resign EK65, then EK65/MEV44/BB88 can eat up big minutes making the loss of any other dman rather less painful. Dougie is in a great position to add to the offense without hurting anything.

not to mention the development of gambrell, chartier, checkhovich, letunov, halbgewachs, and co make almost any non-nhl forward tradeable. And Ferraro, Roy, DiSimone, and Merkley give a pretty solid D pipeline.