NHL: San Jose Sharks’ Timo Meier is front and center with the trade deadline now six weeks away.
Before officially missing the playoffs the last three years, and also in 2015, the San Jose Sharks, predictably, were sellers, offloading some pending unrestricted free agents to recoup assets, namely in the form of draft picks.
“You get down to this time of year and guys like , they’re valuable for a reason,” Sharks general manager Mike Grier said last week. “ reason we want them around here and we want them around our young guys, kind of driving the culture here, is the same reason playoff teams will have interest in them.”
Meier’s also shown he can produce in the playoffs, as he has 20 points in 35 career postseason games with the Sharks, all before his 23rd birthday. As has been noted multiple times, Meier, in the final year of a four-year, $24 million deal, is a pending restricted free agent making $10 million in salary this season, meaning the Sharks will have to issue him a qualifying offer of that size this offseason to maintain is negotiation rights.
“I’ve got all the respect in the world for as a player,” Grier said, “and we’ll have to kind of see how it all shakes out.”, Barracuda defenseman Ryan Merkley made his trade request earlier this month, and just for good measure, speculation about defenseman Erik Karlsson’s long-term future in San Jose also isn’t going away.
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