{"id":65659,"date":"2025-11-22T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65659\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:08:08","slug":"wennberg-ferraro-look-like-sharks-most-attractive-trade-deadline-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65659\/","title":{"rendered":"Wennberg, Ferraro Look Like Sharks&#8217; Most Attractive Trade Deadline Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Trade Deadline could be different for the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>21 games into the season, and the Sharks have been surprisingly competitive \u2013 especially when you look from their first win of the year onward. They\u2019re 10-4-1 after an 0-4-2 start.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks are sitting just outside a playoff spot and are keeping themselves close to the playoff fight.<\/p>\n<p>If the Sharks are still in that position \u2013 or in an even better place \u2013 come the Mar. 6 Trade Deadline, maybe they won\u2019t be sellers? At the very least, maybe they won\u2019t sell to the point they have in recent years, making multiple \u201csells\u201d on deadline day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese last three years, we went into the season and had an idea that you\u2019re probably going to be selling at the Deadline,\u201d San Jose Sharks GM <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-mike-grier-ryan-reaves-jeff-skinner-grand-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grier<\/a> said over the summer. \u201cThe hope is not to have a fire sale again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the Sharks still have interesting pending UFAs, including five UFA defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Leddy, John Klingberg, Mario Ferraro, Timothy Liljegren, and Vincent Desharnais are all on expiring contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Ferraro is perhaps the shiniest one of the defensive bunch, having reportedly attracted trade interest at past deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic, in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6815062\/2025\/11\/19\/nhl-trade-board-stamkos-schenn-oreilly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first Trade Board of the 2025-26<\/a> season, ranked Ferraro 22nd among all UFAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFerraro is a minute-munching, shot-blocking defenseman who appears capable of producing much better numbers on a more complete team,\u201d Chris Johnston wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/top-25-nhl-unrestricted-free-agents-2026-update-kempe-panarin-tuch-bobrovsky-andersson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Faceoff Trade Board<\/a> from about a week ago agrees with Ferraro\u2019s trade potential, listing him at 17th and suggesting he could do well as a depth player on a better team.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, The Athletic still thinks the San Jose Sharks will end up as sellers come the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>And the outlet has center Alexander Wennberg \u2013 who has been traded at the deadline before \u2013 above Ferraro at 16th on the board.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic wrote that he \u201ccarries value because he can be trusted across 200 feet of ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining Wennberg in the pending UFA forward category are Ryan Reaves and Jeff Skinner. Goalie Alex Nedeljkovic is also a pending UFA.<\/p>\n<p>But the San Jose Sharks\u2019 UFAs still have 38 games, before Deadline Day, to convince Grier to keep them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Trade Deadline could be different for the San Jose Sharks. 21 games into the season, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4216,93,4217,4401,88,90,89,98,3236,10559],"class_list":{"0":"post-65659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-alex-wennberg","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-mario-ferraro","11":"tag-mike-grier","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-trade","17":"tag-trade-deadline"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65659","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=65659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}