This trade is terrible, their leading scorer under reasonable contract for 3 underwhelming pieces... all 29 other teams could beat that price without blinking

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if you have nothing brilliant to say your can just walk away. It’s the same old story again and again. But why would i be surprised, you probably didn’t read the description and you probably have no idea of the current situation.

I like Lehkonen but he's a 3rd line player and who knows what Poehling turns into at this point, I'm of the opinion that if the Sharks trade Meier they might as well start tearing it down and trade anyone of value like Hertl,Kane,Labanc and see where the guys with trade protection would be willing to waive to go to.

When I look at this team after the trade proposed here I see three wingers in the top 6 that ideally would be playing on a 3rd line. I don't think this team would be much better then it is now, it'd just be another year of getting older with some guys losing even more trade value and the elephant in the room would have REBUILD spray painted on him.

I doubt they'll rebuild but it might be necessary, Wilson sunk so much into acquiring and then extending Karlsson he basically has to keep going all in to try and squeeze at least one more run out of this group, will be interesting to see what Wilson does this summer, well depending on what happens with the suspension due to the virus obviously, depending on what the NHL decides to do with the season it might not be a normal summer for GM'S.

To be relevant next season they're gonna need another top 6 winger, a 3C and they're gonna have to solidify their goaltending, not gonna be easy to do but Wilson always seems to have something up his sleeve.

Just my $0.02.

So we get a bottom 6 player, a bottom pair D, a potential 3c and two seconds for a first line 23 year old 30 goal scorer. Come on Seby you know this isnt close, this package isnt even worth domi

Does Jeff skinner is a 40 goal scorer, or Nick Foligno a 30 goal scorer or Domi a 70 point players ?

At points in their career yes, Meier had a slightly bad start to the year due to playing for the terrible sharks, doesnt mean hes bad now

I enjoy reading your post very interesting.
Craig smith have been a reliable top six winger. 20 goal in the Nhl is not a simple task and he have made that consistently. What is a top six winger? If you don’t have players like draistail and Mcdavid or a fire power like Toronto you need to spread thing up on offense. The shark suffer a big lack of depth this year. You can’t play with only 2 line in today’s game. That was the main purposes of this post. Bringing young players, depth and draft well this year, that probably the thing that have ro be done. Chasing a high salary players won’t fix anything.

No but the fact that he reach 30 once doesn’t make him a 30 goal scorer. Lehkonen score 18 goal one season so he is a 15-20 goal scorer. Even if he have reach that mark once. Does that makes sense?

Not really the same because Meier was a top prospect for many years with the skill to be a top player and had his best season thus far vs an older guy having an up year

I am sorry but it’s exactly the same situation! If you score 30 goal once that doesn’t mean you are a 30 goal scorer. To be call so you need to score 30 goal on a regular basis .

Ok well how about this. A 23 year old very likely to have more 30 goal seasons on top of the one that already happened

This is a possibility yes. But for now he isn’t.
There a guy name Jonathan Chechoo that once played for the Shark, you might be to young to remember but this is a perfect example.

He actually was a 30 goal scorer, twice and almost three times!

56 goal in one season and 37 the year after. 170 career total he wasn’t a nhl players at the age of 29. So basically he had half of is production in 2 season and score 80 goal in the 5 other season he played in. No one remember Cheechoo as fifty goal scorer, no one even remember Cheechoo.

I hear ya and agree they need some better depth but Smith and Ennis are 31, adding those two to an already old team just makes it older. Ennis had a nice rebound season but that was with a lot of ice time on a bad Sens team and then with McDavid, would he be as productive next season in San Jose likely in a lesser role, maybe but I have my doubts.
Smith has been fairly consistent but has pretty much been a 35-40 point player, good 3rd line numbers but he's on the other side of 30, really not sure if he can keep those up in a top 6 role.
For this team here to be successful they'd need Labanc to return to a 50 point player at least, Lehkonen to jump to being at least a 40 point player, Smith to maintain 20G/20A, Thorton to rebound a bit and be a 30-40 point 3C, Ennis to chip in 30 points from a 3rd line role and Poehling to do the same, no age drop off from Couture and Hertl and Kane to both have solid seasons and that's on top of hoping none of the main three dmen have a serious drop off and probably most importantly a big rebound season from Jones. That's hoping for a lot of things to go right for this team to be at best be battling for a wildcard spot?
And that's not considering what any injuries would do to this team, one core player injured and this team is likely ****ed!

So going back to my original comment, I think if SJ were to trade Meier that should trigger a full teardown rebuild but how do you do that with so much invested in a core of still good players most of which are 30 or older with trade protection, they really need to try and add some youth but with little cap space it seems like it'd be very difficult to accomplish.

Since you're a Habs fan what about this trade idea?
Meier for Drouin, Lehkonen, 2020 2nd

I would still do it

Yeah Meier for that package is laughable. San jose needs more scoring, not a bunch of overhyped young guys who can't score like Lehkonen and Mete

You can go back further i made some trade last August!