{"id":208318,"date":"2026-03-07T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208318\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:18:11","slug":"san-jose-sharks-2026-trade-deadline-report-card-grading-gm-mike-griers-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208318\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks 2026 trade deadline report card: Grading GM Mike Grier\u2019s moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic has live coverage of the\u00a02026 NHL trade deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

San Jose Sharks\u2019 trade deadline moves<\/p>\n

In: Kiefer Sherwood, Laurent Brossoit, Nolan Allan, Jett Woo, 2026 fourth-round pick, 2027 fifth-round pick, 2028 seventh-round pick<\/p>\n

Out: Jeff Skinner, Timothy Liljegren, Jack Thompson, Jake Furlong, Kyle Masters, Ryan Ellis (contract), 2026 second-round pick, 2026 fourth-round pick, 2027 second-round pick, 2028 fourth-round pick<\/p>\n

Grade: B<\/p>\n

This was a quiet deadline for GM Mike Grier, but it didn\u2019t need to be loud as his Sharks progress nicely out of a rebuild. This wasn\u2019t the time to skip steps and make a hard push when they\u2019re still more than a key player or two away from being a serious divisional threat. Most of Grier\u2019s work came in re-signing Kiefer Sherwood and Alex Nedeljkovic. Liljegren, traded to Washington, was solid at times and mistake-prone at others, but he\u2019ll have a shot at minutes every night with John Carlson having been traded to Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Grier could have extracted more or better assets from his set of pending UFA defensemen, but this was mostly about not disrupting the locker room and showing Macklin Celebrini that San Jose is ready to turn the corner and make the organization an attractive NHL option for players again. \u2014 Eric Stephens<\/p>\n

What it means for the team\u2019s lineup<\/p>\n

Sherwood started out on the top line with Celebrini and Will Smith, but the high-energy battling winger is now working with Alex Wennberg and Philipp Kurashev. The rapid growth of Michael Misa, last year\u2019s No. 2 draft pick behind Matthew Schaefer, has now given San Jose three lines that can generate offense, which means opponents have more to worry about than Celebrini and Smith.<\/p>\n

The subtraction of Liljegren helps ease the crowding on the blue line and lets 24-year-old Shakir Mukhamadullin stay in the lineup every night and develop further into the shutdown top-four option he has the potential to become.<\/p>\n

Nedeljkovic could have become a UFA, but the Sharks opted to sign him to a two-year deal with a $3 million average annual value. While San Jose would love Yaroslav Askarov to become their true No. 1 netminder, the well-traveled 30-year-old Nedeljkovic has outperformed Askarov. As of now, it looks like the experienced Brossoit will remain their No. 3 goalie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic has live coverage of the\u00a02026 NHL trade deadline. San Jose Sharks\u2019 trade deadline moves In: Kiefer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-208318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}