reported in The Athletic<\/a> on Wednesday, \u201cdepending on the offers.\u201d<\/p>\nSo what are fair offers for the second-overall?<\/p>\n
San Jose Hockey Now spoke with three NHL scouts and an executive to come up with some reasonable deals.<\/p>\n
Two trade scenarios seem to make the most sense for the San Jose Sharks: Trading back from No. 2 and still coming out with a high pick or dangling the second-overall for an established star.<\/p>\n
Trade Back?<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks, as an organization, are deep up front and shallow on defense.<\/p>\n
So while there\u2019s much thought that wingers Gavin McKenna and Ivar Stenberg are the top prospects of the draft, there\u2019s also a handful of blueline prospects, Chase Reid, Carson Carels, Keaton Verhoeff, and Alberts Smits, who could well be future No. 1 defensemen.<\/p>\n
The Sharks must also add to their current blueline, which has just two defensemen signed for next year, veteran Dmitry Orlov and rookie Sam Dickinson.<\/p>\n
So trading back can still net the Sharks a high pick, which they can use on a top defensive prospect, and they can acquire some blueline help right now, too.<\/p>\n
Could the Sharks trade No. 2 to the Chicago Blackhawks for the No. 4 pick, defenseman Kevin Korchinski, and the Hawks\u2019 2026 second-rounder? Chicago\u2019s second-rounder is the No. 34 pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a fair trade for the Sharks\u2019 No. 2 pick in the 2026 draft? Of course, odds are,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":833095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[305383,66394,197516,291,1322,316676,143605,28400,1302,293,1328,62,130,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-833094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-adam-fox","tag-braden-schneider","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-featured","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-kevin-korchinski","tag-mike-grier","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116665496857079394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833094","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=833094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}