Quoting: rob23sjsharks
Please no negative rude comments if the trades don’t work offer up a counteroffer to contemplate. This isn’t me thinking I’m a genius, this is me fishing and seeing if anyone thinks teams will bite.
Well, I'll try not to be rude.
1. It's Joe Pavelski, not Joe Pavalski.
2. That Dallas trade isn't going to fly. First of all, Pavs has a full NMC this season, and I doubt very much that he waives it to go from the team he just went to the finals with back to the team that wasn't interested in re-signing him. They sold their house here, he's not coming home. Second, while I realized that the Sharks desperately need to shed cap, I don't think that shedding it in the form of a reliable 30 goal winger is really the way to do it - especially not for a player who is significantly older and slower and lower scoring (2018-19 notwithstanding).
3. MEV's contract is so godawful in so many ways, but potentially the worst bit of it is that pesky full NMC that he got Doug Wilson to agree to. I genuinely cannot see him waiving that to move to Detroit, but possibly more importantly, I don't think Stevie Y. is particularly interested in breaking his slow and careful rebuild to take on six years of a rapidly aging and increasingly bad defenseman. And yes, that bribe could maybe work, but given that we're in an on the fly retool ourselves, it would be foolish in the extreme to just throw away two first round picks like that - and yes, I follow the draft too and understand that 2022 will be a badass strong draft class, but we definitely could use an elite LD and it looks like the 2021 draft class might just have a few of those. (Would I give my left earlobe to get Owen Power on a d-pairing with EK65? You betcha.)
I have no alternate trades to offer here - there's a reason I don't publish a lot of rosters on here when I'm sober and it's that I'm terrible at knowing what non-Sharks are really worth. I am, however, very aware of the value that current and former Sharks have and I think your estimates here are unrealistic.