FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The San Jose Sharks are\u2026buying?<\/p>\n
For the first time since 2019, also the last time that the Sharks made the playoffs, San Jose is arming the team for a post-season run.<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks acquired winger Kiefer Sherwood from the Vancouver Canucks for their 2026 and 2027 second-round picks, and minor league defenseman Cole Clayton.<\/p>\n
San Jose Hockey Now spoke with four NHL scouts, none with the Sharks or Canucks, who are all high on the player, even if they\u2019re a little leery of the acquisition cost for a pending UFA.<\/p>\n
Obviously, too, adding a winger doesn\u2019t address the San Jose Sharks\u2019 biggest need, the blueline.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the bigger area of concern for them,\u201d Scout #4 noted.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s still plenty of time from now until the Trade Deadline, and San Jose has plenty of other quality assets to deal for an impact defenseman.<\/p>\n
The Sharks have still got all their first-rounders, and the Edmonton Oilers\u2019 this year, too, and a bushel of solid prospects.<\/p>\n
\u201cFabulous pick-up,\u201d Scout #3 said of Sherwood. \u201cThought they would get a first for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The San Jose Sharks are\u2026buying? For the first time since 2019, also the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[58,5,6386,4,519,168,5306,5305,3893,1780,3613,27],"class_list":["post-420037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-featured","tag-hockey","tag-kiefer-sherwood","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-scouts","tag-sharks","tag-trade","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115934118975750244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}