Oh stop

Shark cannot retain more on any more players, they used all they retention spots

Um that's 2 top 5 picks to give away someone not to play for you

It says retained by anaheim

So SJS spend 2x 1st to get rid of the guy ??

Who cares? We get out of a contract we didn't need to get out of.

Just trying to get inside Mike Grier's head. What would we do?

Sharks are way under the cap, just buy him out.

I won't.
People continue to defend this garbage GM.

Find good doctor and send him to LITRetired list

What is he supposed to do, realistically, look at the contracts DW put us through the last few years of his tenure, he SCREWED us,

We should have sold hertl before we even signed him to this contract. Hard reality, we have to build a team from the draft up

Grier would rather get some retention and pay for it.

Hertl didn't need to go.
We're already going to have trouble hitting the floor now. Can you guess what that slug will do?
Overpay UFAs to bad contracts which we'll retain on in the future in order to get rid of if we're ever "competitive" again.

You actually have to draft well and develop people. Grier hasn't shown he or this team have a clue.

Time will tell, but there is no way we go into the offseason and sign inflated contracts, if he does go do that, no I will not support the rebuild anymore

I’m not saying you are wrong, I am just saying this dude was left an absolute mess from DW, and I do not have an issue moving all of the guys who are on the wrong side of 30 out.

With that being said, I do think there could be some leadership issues

We as sharks fans have been dealt a lot of BS in the last five or so years, and yeah I’m frustrated too, I’m just trying to stay positive and pray the prospects pan out

Im still mad about the Karlsson trade to this day so I get the frustration believe me

He’s making fun of our GM

I'm not saying this isn't clinically insane

Grow up

We can agree he inherited a tough situation and more importantly we're going to have a team of young kids with no leadership.
I think it's important to build in age/experience layers and groups.

If Hertl and Couture stay you have two 1B centers who play 3 zones. They can also shoulder the load while the young kids figure it out and then take over.
We have no transition here. It's full stop and people just assume these kids will shred.

He also hired the worst coach I've ever seen. To be fair, I've only been watching since the 90s.

People are praising the move. We're retaining for SIX years. For a 3rd line winger and a late 1st/glorified 2nd rounder.
You work your butt off to be able to go to games and now your dollars go to Hertl, EK, and Burns playing against you.

There is no accountability and his response has been "oh, I didn't realize people would be upset".

He made the EK look good. I'm frustrated too, but I'm not willing to let it go anymore. Enough is enough.

Surprised you don't want that pick.

Oh 100% that statement he released was so dumb, I would have rather seen him say nothing than that.

I do agree with the major leadership issue problem which hertl would have been a great fit for, I didn’t like the retaining either, nor the two 3rds

I like getting the 2025 first in a deeper draft, and I guess we can just pray for a Vegas downfall, but I mean the more prospects the merrier, and it seems like this guy has a little potential.

With that being said, he’s no Hertl and it hurts.

When Meier was traded I saw this all coming, crazy enough I would have rather not done that and try to build around Meier Karlsson hertl and couture, I thought that could have been a good team when Eklund, Smith and others had their coming out party but when one fell I knew they all would.

I guess it’s better to race to the bottom than to stay somewhere in the middle

That I disagree with, we basically sent a elite first liner and second line center for him

HOW MUCH RETENTION DO YOU WANT US TO PAY FOR?!?!?!

Which EK trade are we talking about? Haha.

We were going to suck without trading those guys. I agree. It could have been a quicker turnaround with layered experience.