It sounds like the San Jose Sharks did a lot of window shopping, but they certainly didn\u2019t do any buying at the Trade Deadline.<\/p>\n
Their only moves on Friday were trading Timothy Liljegren to the Washington Capitals for a fourth-round pick and re-signing pending UFA Alex Nedeljkovic to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, they did re-sign pending UFA Kiefer Sherwood to a five-year contract. Sherwood, acquired on Jan. 19 for essentially a pair of second-round picks, ended up being their biggest purchase this season.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s not a bad thing, really.<\/p>\n
In GM Mike Grier\u2019s post-Deadline availability, he sent a clear signal that the San Jose Sharks were turning the page from their rebuild, but with an accurate sense of where the franchise really is in their competitive cycle.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also keeping his gunpowder dry, saving his best trade assets for a big swing this off-season.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what we learned during his chat with the media.<\/p>\n
Cautious Buyers?<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks were looking to buy this Trade Deadline. That\u2019s a big deal, that\u2019s the first time that you could say that since 2019, the last time that they made the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Clearly, acquiring 30-year-old Sherwood for a couple second-rounders is an example of a more aggressive mentality than we\u2019ve grown accustomed to. Usually, Team Teal is out of the playoff picture by Thanksgiving, if not earlier.<\/p>\n
That said, San Jose knows that they\u2019re not one player away from a Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were in on a few things throughout the week, but I wasn\u2019t really in the rental market,\u201d Grier said. \u201cWe were more into poking around and involved in things with players who had some term.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grier revealed that at least the Edmonton Oilers\u2019 2026 first-round pick, acquired last year for Jake Walman, was in play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It sounds like the San Jose Sharks did a lot of window shopping, but they certainly didn\u2019t do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[70290,93,41681,3521,1035,4217,4401,65313,88,90,89,98,3519,95903,7642,10559,2105],"class_list":{"0":"post-208675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","11":"tag-luca-cagnoni","12":"tag-macklin-celebrini","13":"tag-mario-ferraro","14":"tag-mike-grier","15":"tag-nolan-allan","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-san-jose-sharks","20":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","21":"tag-simon-nemec","22":"tag-timothy-liljegren","23":"tag-trade-deadline","24":"tag-william-eklund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675","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=208675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}