What\u2019s a fair trade for the Sharks\u2019 No. 2 pick in the 2026 draft?<\/p>\n
Of course, odds are, the San Jose Sharks<\/a> aren\u2019t actually going to deal the pick: The last time that a top-five selection moved, post-draft lottery, was in 2008.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n That said?<\/p>\n \u201cMike Grier is absolutely open to moving the No. 2 pick,\u201d insider Pierre LeBrun reported in The Athletic<\/a> on Wednesday, \u201cdepending on the offers.\u201d<\/p>\n So what are fair offers for the second-overall?<\/p>\n San Jose Hockey Now spoke with three NHL scouts and an executive to come up with some reasonable deals.<\/p>\n Two trade scenarios seem to make the most sense for the San Jose Sharks: Trading back from No. 2 and still coming out with a high pick or dangling the second-overall for an established star.<\/p>\n Trade Back?<\/p>\n The San Jose Sharks, as an organization, are deep up front and shallow on defense.<\/p>\n So while there\u2019s much thought that wingers Gavin McKenna and Ivar Stenberg are the top prospects of the draft, there\u2019s also a handful of blueline prospects, Chase Reid, Carson Carels, Keaton Verhoeff, and Alberts Smits, who could well be future No. 1 defensemen.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Sharks must also add to their current blueline, which has just two defensemen signed for next year, veteran Dmitry Orlov<\/a> and rookie Sam Dickinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n So trading back can still net the Sharks a high pick, which they can use on a top defensive prospect, and they can acquire some blueline help right now, too.<\/p>\n Could the Sharks trade No. 2 to the Chicago Blackhawks for the No. 4 pick, defenseman Kevin Korchinski<\/a>, and the Hawks\u2019 2026 second-rounder? Chicago<\/a>\u2019s second-rounder is the No. 34 pick.<\/p>\n The post What Are Fair Trades for Sharks\u2019 No. 2 Pick?<\/a> appeared first on San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a fair trade for the Sharks\u2019 No. 2 pick in the 2026 draft? Of course, odds are,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4419,5400,139878,60507,1037,88,90,76406,89,98,13190],"class_list":["post-340005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-chicago","tag-dmitry-orlov","tag-kevin-korchinski","tag-pierre-lebrun","tag-sam-dickinson","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-hockey","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-the-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340005","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=340005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}