Satiar Shah

Because of how unexpected last year was and how they took a step and how unexpected it was for them to get the second overall pick, do you think that they would be a team that would be more open to doing this compared to another team that would look at the second overall pick as being very critical to their rebuilding efforts?

Yeah.

And, you know, before we let you go, you know, obviously if the San Jose doesn't draft a defenseman second overall, like we talked about free agency trade wise, those are avenues that can address the blue line.

Potentially, if you're looking at some of their younger players and they're

Obviously, they have some nice forwards, and Macklin's at the top of that list, William Eklund and Will Smith, but is there any chance you can see them, not Macklin, of course, but flipping one of their younger forwards for a defenseman?

Do you think that's a possibility, or do you think they're pretty committed to holding on to their top young forwards?

Sheng, listen, man, thanks so much for your time today.

We appreciate you letting us know what's happening with the San Jose Sharks.

We'll see what happens at the draft.

And hey, if they do something fun, we might be talking again really soon.

Oh, okay.

So on Marcus Pedersen, you did mention, and I know Rick Doyle came out and said that he hasn't asked for a trade.

So what do you think of that whole Marcus Pedersen situation?

So, yeah.

Well, and you know, that's a really interesting framing about that.

Cause I don't disagree with you.

You know, when we hear about trade requests, oftentimes players will push back on that idea.

They'll get traded.

Then afterwards we'll say, well, yeah, I was actually open all along.

I didn't want to cause an issue.