{"id":372642,"date":"2026-06-24T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372642\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:22:08","slug":"eklund-deal-can-open-up-bigger-trade-for-sharks-but-for-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372642\/","title":{"rendered":"Eklund Deal Can Open Up Bigger Trade for Sharks&#8230;But For Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have traded <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-william-eklund-ottawa-senators-trade-2026-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Eklund<\/a> to the Ottawa Senators\u2026so what\u2019s next for the Sharks?<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks traded Eklund, along with prospects Kasper Halttunen and Brandon Svoboda, to the Senators for the No. 9 pick of the 2026 Draft.<\/p>\n<p>So why did the San Jose Sharks move on from the popular winger?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t feel like GM Mike Grier is done. On the surface, it doesn\u2019t make sense for a team that\u2019s trying to get back into the playoff picture to trade an established and improving 23-year-old winger in Eklund for just a draft pick, however high, especially when there are clear holes on the Sharks\u2019 blueline.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the Sharks have just two blueliners signed, veteran Dmitry Orlov and sophomore Sam Dickinson, and a couple RFAs in Michael Kesselring and Shakir Mukhamadullin.<\/p>\n<p>So using that No. 9 for some defensive help right now makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>It is San Jose Hockey Now\u2019s understanding that the San Jose Sharks had \u201clots of interest\u201d in top-pairing defenseman Bowen Byram, dealt after the Eklund trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have traded William Eklund to the Ottawa Senators\u2026so what\u2019s next for the Sharks? The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62931,62454,150719,27928,93,41677,75543,3525,26224,88,90,89,98,3236,20226,2105,52847],"class_list":["post-372642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-draft","tag-bowen-byram","tag-brandon-svoboda","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-featured","tag-filip-hronek","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-kasper-halttunen","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-trade","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-william-eklund","tag-zach-werenski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372642","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=372642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}