Hear me out... Instead of completely derailing your rebuild by giving up a great prospect, an unprotected 1st, the 14th overall + just to get a soon to be 28 year old d-man who doesn't fit their timeline, MAYBE wait a year to get him in free agency for free.

Stamkos isn't making it to free agency.

We need to be patient. We’re not a Rasmus Andersson away from competing.

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.

I have a part 2 of this roster where it sets up SJ to get Draisaitl in 2025:

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/5153072

You might be right and it may make more sense to pull the trigger on an Andersson trade next summer instead but I think SJ desperately needs it this coming year so if you plan on getting him next summer, go for it this summer, not necessarily to be competitive starting this year, but to make the Sharks a respectably among the bad teams in the league instead of being downright historically awful as well as to invest in that #1 RD-man to improve the development of all the young players on this roster.

Calgary probably accepts this.

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.

What on earth is the Calgary trade…

This offer is also a huge overpay. This is more than we gave up for EK65 who was literally the best defenseman on the planet when we traded for him.

wdym "probably" lol

Jesus that’s Rasmus Anderson not Nick Lidstrom in his prime

Nope he's not Lidstrom but "Nick Lidstrom in his prime" would've fetched significantly more.

probably