{"id":373962,"date":"2026-06-25T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373962\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:40:09","slug":"did-sharks-get-enough-for-eklund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373962\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Sharks Get Enough for Eklund? (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the rest of the NHL think about the William Eklund trade?<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the San Jose Sharks sent Eklund, along with prospects Kasper Halttunen and Brandon Svoboda, to the Ottawa Senators for the No. 9 pick in the 2026 Draft.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the talk after the trade focused on what San Jose would do with the ninth-overall.<\/p>\n<p>But in the first place, did they get enough for Eklund?<\/p>\n<p>I asked five NHL scouts or executives, representing five different NHL teams, none the Sharks or Sens, if San Jose got a reasonable return for the Swedish winger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does the rest of the NHL think about the William Eklund trade? On Tuesday, the San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62931,52836,93,41677,75543,99833,4401,26224,88,90,89,98,8864,4254,3236,2105,52847],"class_list":["post-373962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-draft","tag-bo-byram","tag-featured","tag-filip-hronek","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-matthew-knies","tag-mike-grier","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scouts","tag-sjhn","tag-trade","tag-william-eklund","tag-zach-werenski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373962","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=373962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}