{"id":46026,"date":"2025-07-07T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46026\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:04:08","slug":"report-sharks-likely-to-trade-defenseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46026\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Sharks Likely To Trade Defenseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the San Jose Sharks are going to trade a defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the Sharks have eight NHL-caliber blueliners on the roster, after signing Dmitry Orlov and John Klingberg in free agency, and claiming Nick Leddy off waivers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s in addition to Mario Ferraro, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Timothy Liljegren, Vincent Desharnais, and Henry Thrun.<\/p>\n<p>None are waiver-exampt.<\/p>\n<p>They also have prospects Jack Thompson, Luca Cagnoni, and Sam Dickinson waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefourthperiod.com\/pagnotta\/blues-sharks-among-teams-eyeing-byram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period<\/a> suggested that Ferraro, Liljegren, or Thrun could be available.<\/p>\n<p>Elliotte Friedman confirmed Pagnotta\u2019s reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/the-season-finale-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on his \u201c32 Thoughts Podcast\u201d<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s Thrun, Thompson, Liljegren, or Ferraro, something is going to have to give here,\u201d Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>The insider did note that 23-year-old Mukhamadullin should be safe.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, San Jose Sharks GM <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-mike-grier-roslovic-olofsson-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grier<\/a> admitted, \u201cWe could probably use a top-nine winger, if something like that comes available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So could a defenseman be part of the exchange for a forward?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrier may try to move or package Ferraro for some scoring depth up front,\u201d Pagnotta wrote, \u201cbut the Sharks may wait until later in the season to prop up his value closer to the trade deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferraro (26 years old), Liljegren (26), Thrun (24), and Thompson (23) are all entering the last year of their contracts. The alternate captain is likely the most valuable trade asset of the San Jose Sharks\u2019 most available defensemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like the San Jose Sharks are going to trade a defenseman. At the moment, the Sharks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[35840,35841,35842,27290,1322,31703,35843,27075,35844,35845,28400,293,28397,30247,1328,35846,62,31704,130,67,132,68,35847],"class_list":{"0":"post-46026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-32-thoughts-podcast","9":"tag-david-pagnotta","10":"tag-dmitry-orlov","11":"tag-elliotte-friedman","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-henry-thrun","14":"tag-jack-thompson","15":"tag-john-klingberg","16":"tag-luca-cagnoni","17":"tag-mario-ferraro","18":"tag-mike-grier","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nick-leddy","21":"tag-sam-dickinson","22":"tag-san-jose-sharks","23":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-timothy-liljegren","26":"tag-trade","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-vincent-desharnais"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}