2023/24 Season. Sharks will suck. Will the Jackets?

Hopefully Grier can get some worthwhile assets and unload everybody.

I really hope Hertl begged Grier to trade him to a contender.

Why are Hoffman, Labanc, Rutta, and Granlund still here?

Granny’s had his moments, at least been as good as Duke. Yeah you’re right about the others but then what’s the plan here? Actively acquire aging vets who aren’t good anymore and then… keep them?

Today was a huge let down. I could get behind trading Hertl and his contract but to Vegas? That’s just cruel. But not getting anything for these guys who were brought in specifically to be unloaded at the deadline. That’s a failure.

I wish we had traded him instead of resigning him 2 years ago, but what can you do. Since he had a NMC, we did not have the upper hand.
I'm glad the contract is gone, because that will be an albatross like Vlasic's is in 3-4 years, at most I'd say. Just don't see those knees holding up, because they haven't really.

www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/08/san-jose-sharks-trading-tomas-hertl-to-vegas-golden-knights-per-reports/

I know Doug Wilson Fucked the Sharks up, but I think GMMG is doing about the same! Someone please tell me the Brightside of this Trade? Facing him 6 times a Year for the next 6 Years? Watching him score the series winner against us oh wait that's not going to happen, because we wont be in the Playoffs the entire time he's in Vegas!!

When I read the first tweet it looked like the 3rds were also going our way. So no the return doesn’t look great it looks real bad. GMMG better be right about David Edstrom

Hopefully, there's some great talent in some of those players and picks.

As if the hockey "culture" cannot help it. These people shouldn't be covered up for. They should be hunted down mercilessly, exposed, ostracized.

Yup. After Lorentz was shipped out for Duclair, who's also gone, and Johnsson's back in Sweden.

I went to the Jackets - Sharks game tonight.

What a shitshow. Sic transit.
What a wreck has been created from a team that went to the conference finals five seasons ago and was considered a long-time contender... Only Vlasic and Labanc remain from that team, and they do not decorate it.

The Sharks look like the next salary dump for the foreseeable future. What say Hasso?

The Jackets are almost as bad, but at least they are permanently injured, and good on paper.

The teardown had to happen. I can get behind Grier taking everything of value off the roster; Burns, Meier, Karlsson, Hertl but it really cements how bad they're gonna be for another 3-5 years minimum. Reclamation projects and salary dumps for a while now and while we're at it, make sure they're small, soft, and uncompetitive too.

Least they have good jerseys now yay.

Arizona can't get out of the salary dump mode for a very long time now. What are you going to do with the 2-3 top-class picks after they mature in three years and want to compete, and you're still a heap of garbage?

They'll still own their rights and there aren't many players coming off ELCs start demanding trades.  Ultimately they have to get better and that means out of Eklund, Bordeleau, Smith, Edstrom, Musty, Bystedt, Mukhamadullin, etc they need more hits than misses and some impact players out of what they have now and will add to later.  Getting Celebrini would be a real nice step in that direction.

I know he has an impossible task and by the time the Sharks are ready to compete again he’ll be long gone but man oh man, Quinn just seems like a limp noodle. Absolutely no push-back, no anger at how bad they are, no pride in how they play. Just give up goal after goal and respond with… with… nothing. These are professionals who look like they hate being on the ice.

They suck, that’s not his fault, but the way they play for him and his inability to get them to be anything other than roadkill is getting rather tiresome. I know him and Grier are close but enough with this nonsense.