What Is A REASONABLE Return On A Kiefer Sherwood Flip?!

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1. Flip him

2. Chernyshov is miles better

3. No way he lost half of his trade value

4. There's about a 0% chance Grier is getting back what he paid for Sherwood.. don't overpay him, just take the L and move on.

5. Would be a sick move to flip.

6. Package him for Whitecloud, Schneider, or Drysdale

7. A late second round defensive prospect.

8. Just keep him. Why even try anything? When you have given away how much you did. $$$$

9. Flip him back to Vancouver for 2 second round picks, and throw in Nick Leddy and Carey Price

10. I mean, small sample sizes and perhaps unfair, but it’s hard to make a case right now that Sherwood has fit here at all. Arguably he has done the one thing no one in the NHL has been able to thus far, which is stifle Macklin Celebrini. He has 0 points and four minor penalties in 4 games, comically TWICE getting called for goalie interference. It’s not exactly a case for handing out the deal he wants. I’d flip him at this point. If they can get a late first from a cup contender or somehow an early second from a team that has someone else’s pick, you could at least save face and call it “trading up” the draft picks. That failing, getting anything back and mitigating the loss is better than him not fitting for a month, maybe not even making the playoffs, and then having him walk.

    I was never high on this trade to begin with, mostly because a rental was not where this team is at in the rebuild, and a forward was not on the team’s need list to begin with, and I didn’t even think extending him was an obvious win given the young forward depth in the pipeline. What the team needs is a defenseman. That was true then. It’s still true now. And handing a $5mil AAV to another forward is not getting that defenseman. Unfortunately he’s only going to get 5 games here before the deadline, and while the small sample size is unfair (come back from injury on a new team, play one game and then sit for 2 weeks is hardly ideal), I really have not seen anything to change my mind here. The trade was always a bad idea. GMMG should not have done it. At this point flipping him for something back mitigates the disaster at least.

11. Hey can we take a second to step back here and kinda look at the bigger picture from a strategic point.

    The sharks just way overpaid on a guy who doesn’t fit a true need (D), doesn’t fit the timeline by a looooooong shot, and is probably a rental. And they’re likely not even a playoff team this year. Not to mention the health issues. Now not a couple months removed from the deal people are starting to whisper about maybe trying to move him?

    So in analyzing this trade, maybe we should take a lesson on the type of deals we are considering making and how we manage our assets. There have been a lot of suggested trades that make no sense, and they all seem to be centered around how well the sharks can do this season. This is not a win now team, and we don’t want to force ourselves into being a win now team due to short sightedness.

    I think they should let this be the only trade. It was a swing and they missed. That’s it, thems the brakes

12. Maka calls him the Kiefster [ … ]

13. May be a good time to include him in a package for some type of defensive upgrade.

14. Sign him.

15. Trading for him in the first place was a bad idea, resigning him for what he's asking is also a bad idea. Only being able to recoup partial of what the sharks gave up for him in the first place is also bad. Package him with another player and maybe a pick or prospect and try to get a serviceable defenseman

16. Swing and a miss for the sharks let’s not keep pouring into the sunk cost

17. I think you stick with him at this point, it's weird to sign him then flip him for a worse return. Let him find his footing.