The San Jose Sharks might be done adding to their roster this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say we probably are finished,\u201d GM Mike Grier said on Friday, after the Sharks acquired wingers Ryan Reaves and Jeff Skinner.<\/p>\n
If that\u2019s the case, are the Sharks better? What\u2019s the reasoning behind trading Henry Thrun for Reaves? Why does Skinner represent perhaps the end of San Jose\u2019s search for help on the wing? What could be Grier\u2019s grand plan?<\/p>\n
Here are my thoughts about what might be the GM\u2019s last media availability this off-season.<\/p>\n
Why Reaves for Thrun?<\/p>\n
On the surface, the Henry Thrun-for-Ryan Reaves swap may not make sense. So what gives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks might be done adding to their roster this summer. \u201cI would say we probably…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[27074,44264,44265,28405,44266,35842,1322,44267,10004,31703,7945,28398,27075,44268,21393,35845,44269,12961,28400,293,28397,28395,27076,42929,30247,1328,35846,44270,62,31704,130,39333,44271,44272,67,132,68,35847,5956,44273,44274],"class_list":{"0":"post-61536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-adam-gaudette","9":"tag-alex-nedeljkovic","10":"tag-alex-wennberg","11":"tag-brock-boeser","12":"tag-chris-kreider","13":"tag-dmitry-orlov","14":"tag-featured","15":"tag-filip-zadina","16":"tag-free-agency","17":"tag-henry-thrun","18":"tag-j-j-peterka","19":"tag-jeff-skinner","20":"tag-john-klingberg","21":"tag-mackenzie-blackwood","22":"tag-macklin-celebrini","23":"tag-mario-ferraro","24":"tag-mason-marchment","25":"tag-michael-misa","26":"tag-mike-grier","27":"tag-nhl","28":"tag-nick-leddy","29":"tag-nikolaj-ehlers","30":"tag-philipp-kurashev","31":"tag-ryan-reaves","32":"tag-sam-dickinson","33":"tag-san-jose-sharks","34":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","35":"tag-sjhn","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-timothy-liljegren","38":"tag-trade","39":"tag-trade-deadline","40":"tag-trevor-zegras","41":"tag-tyler-toffoli","42":"tag-united-states","43":"tag-unitedstates","44":"tag-us","45":"tag-vincent-desharnais","46":"tag-will-smith","47":"tag-william-eklund","48":"tag-yaroslav-askarov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61536","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=61536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}