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Because they don't want to make the playoffs down the road.

And all these D-men, you're probably going to have to wait at least a year.

If they want to make the playoffs next year, and they certainly seem like they do, does it make the most sense for them to go that route rather than slow play this and get a higher upside D?

And we saw last year, I'll bring up the Hurricanes, but like they made a trade for like a Keandre Miller.

Do they do, do the Sharks do that version of it this year?

And it would be different because it was, what, Scott Morrow, a first and a second?

So if you're putting in an Eklund, right, like, that's kind of upgrading on either the first or the prospect, and you can figure out the rest of the pieces later.

But to his point, like, they have an extra first-rounder.

Yeah, if you do that together with that... I wonder about a guy like, too, especially, like, another guy who's in a vulnerable spot as far as, like, his contract's expiring.

Like...

wouldn't like a Byram kind of make sense for them?

Yeah.

Like they've got so many left-handed D men there.

They have to pay him a year from now.

Would it make more sense to be like, well, we need another forward here because what happens with Alex Tuck and they've already lost Paterka.

We've got all these left-handed D men.

Like, does that kind of make sense for both parties?

It's like, well, if one of us is going to pay someone, may as well be you.

And then we'll take the first round or in an Eklund kind of thing.

For San Jose in particular, right?