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The center of the Sharks take care of business at home and ship out an extra

defensive and that a pretty quiet trade deadline.

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And today we're going to be a nice little, very easy trade deadline episode as the Sharks really didn't do too much.

They took care of some business by resigning Alex and Delkovich.

And then they traded Timothy Lilgergren, so we'll talk about those two moves and what they mean.

And then we'll discuss, was this the right approach by my career to not really do too much at the deadline.

So let's go started with Alex and Delkovich, who will be sticking around here for the next two seasons.

And Delkovich, who was one of these Sharks's UFA's going into the deadline here, three signs.

And if you're a long time fan of the show, I said this, October, before the season started,

one of my bull predictions was,

Alex and Delkovich will resign for the Sharks at two years, three million dollars.

I said three million or three and a half, but still.

Fast forward to now.

And the Sharks did just that.

And Delkovich, who has had a really strong season for the San Jose Sharks,

they acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins for a third round pick this off season,

has, you know, I think has been a great one B to ask of.

We've seen Delkovich especially since the beginning of January play extremely well for San Jose.

He's been, you know, winning the majority of the games that he's playing.

He starts tonight against whatever is left of the St. Louis Blues roster.

And I think this is a guy, you know, like where you heard the Bavarovsky rumors,

right, you look at the potential free agent class and for the goalies,

I think Rear just was like, I'm really happy with this group.

And I think that was a big theme of today.

It's just, I'm really happy with this group here.

So, but yeah, you, you feel happy for the Delkovich,

who should be a very strong one B for you going forward.

And that the, you know, in this Asgard continues his growth and hopefully consistency

that the Delkovich will just continue to kind of be that spot start guy,

but you're not feeling like whenever he rolls out, you're in trouble, right?

There's not, you know, not Ralph Wiggum in the back of the bus saying, I'm in danger.

Like the Delkovich has been arguably the better of the goal tend, like the numbers say

the Delkovich has been the better goal tender this year, as you would expect,

right, with Asgard going through his first full season here, but I think it's just

super steady. You feel like you have a chance any time the Delkovich is in net.

And I wouldn't, I'm going to be interested to see how they do kind of split the Asgard

Delkovich starts here down the stretch because, you know, Asgard is the future,

but Sharks also trying to win games right now as well.

But yeah, happy for Ned. It feels like he might have found a bit of a home here.

We know like the Delkovich and Asgard have been a really nice pair together and working well

on and off the ice. And, you know, Gaelic and Delkovich has kind of been there, done that and

been through a lot of different stuff. I think this is a perfect spot for him to kind of stick

around here. So the other big news, of course, that we had to wait 90 minutes after the

actual trade was announced to hear the return was Timothy Lilgegrim, the defenseman heading

to the Washington capitals. We know the capitals traded John Carlson late, late last night

and needed someone who can kind of help fill in that puck-moving maybe play on the powerplay

type of defenseman. And we knew Lilgegrim who'd been a healthy scratch and had a lot of ups and

downs this season. And for some reason has a nice tendency to score on his own goalie.

We kind of felt like the odd man out, and especially with Shakira Mooka-McDullin,

who has played well since he kind of got inserted back into the lineup in Mooka-McDullin,

who is younger. And you still in RFA and the Sharks have his rights. I think this is the right move

to move out one of these defenseman here. And Lilgegrim, I think, was that combination of

doesn't really make a lot of sense for the Sharks right now. And you'll still get something of value

and you've got a fourth round pick back, which in the grand scheme of things a fourth round pick

is whatever. But I think for for San Jose, this is more about opening up a roster spot for a guy

like Mooka-McDullin to play. Sam Dickinson to continue to play, right? Because now Lilgegrim

is always like the power play three guy. Now you would assume either Mooka-McDullin or Dickinson,

a right, if Klingberg isn't able to go or if Orlov is not able to go,

one like Dickinson or Mooka-McDullin is probably getting first crack as your next power play guy

here. But this is more about opening up a spot for one of those guys. And the potential

Eric Polkamp signing, I think that we're all expecting when his season at University of Denver is over.

So, you know, it kind of felt like it was going to have to be done. And it is now done here.

But yeah, those are the moves for the San Jose Sharks here for the day. And it

elglish gets re-signed and Lilgegrim gets traded away for a fourth round pick. So,

was this the right approach by my career to kind of just stick with the guys you have?

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or check the link in the show notes right now. So was this the right

approach by my career to be pretty quiet? And I know there's like there's definitely two sides.

There's the cell anything that's not bolted down because the sharks aren't winning the playoff

are winning Stanley Cup here and I get it, you know, like I've talked about before where I'm very

much in the I think the sharks you have to kind of stack right you look at teams like Colorado

when they were coming up where it was like okay, let's make the playoffs and then let's get

to the next point like then let's get through the first round and like they kind of stacked

and stuff. You have to start somewhere. So I totally get it. But you know, you like I get the

you know, those pointed people who are like for our clingberg just get whatever you can for them.

I understand it. Am I disappointed that my career maybe didn't try to like add something

a little bit but then you see the prices that some of these players got and you're like, you know what?

I am happy with what I have right now, you know, when like the shens are going for first round picks

and like you see all the the exorbitant cost for some of these defensemen.

Okay, man, let's just ride what we got right now. So, you know, from Greer, so he said,

where was it? I think Curtis had the the quote trying to pull it up here at the same time. But

you know, he was basically said like he got calls on Mario, Farrow and John Clingberg.

And here's basically we got calls on these guys over the last couple weeks in the last couple

days where it's interested them, but the group they've kind of scrapped and battled their way all

season long. Even in the last games they've played well and kind of got themselves back into the mix.

So it kind of felt like it was the best thing to do and all fairness to them to kind of keep the

group together and see how the rest of the season goes. Okay, so you know, and again, Liger and

what were you or not for Liger and Clingberg? What were you realistically getting for John Clingberg?

Fifth fourth fifth round pick. Okay, cool. There's like an AHL player type of thing.

Farrow, maybe you got a second. Okay, like a second is valuable. You could do something with that,

but we've talked about it before where the sharks, they don't have a guy right now who feels like

they can do the same thing, Mario, Farrow. Now, if they had made the trade for like a British

Schneider, that would be much more justifiable. So I get it from Greer's point where just the

cost of doing business was so high, like that Isles trade for Luke Shen, or was it Braden Shen? One

of the, the, the, for, it was Braden Shen, sorry. Like that's ridiculous for Braden Shen,

for Isles team who's kind of in this, like, I know they're a little bit more in the playoff

position than the sharks are, but like that, that's a, that's a massive cause for a defenseman

like him. You know, the Red Wing's paid a first round pick plus for Justin Falk. Like you see the

cost of doing business for some of these defensemen, and I'm okay with Greer sitting out at this

point and kind of rolling with what you have. And you've opened up some room, you feel like

you're going to have some reinforcements coming, whether it's Churnishov, whether it's

Lupin Canyon, hopefully, maybe get no amount in the mix, or you know, Eric Polkamp, like you,

you have some internal growth. And that is what the sharks are potentially banking on here. And

you know, there'll be plenty of people criticizing, well, you know, if the sharks don't make the playoffs,

or if they make the playoffs, they get crushed by the odds in the first round, which I fully expect.

And then you go into the summer and you get nothing from Mario Farrow, you let him walk, like

that's a criticism that that's fair criticism right there. But you know, I think for what this team

is and what they're trying to do right now and right now they're trying to get the most important

thing to this team right now is getting playoff or playoff like experience for their young players

like Celebrini and Smith and Eclan and Dickinson and Asterov and all these guys here,

to that way when you go into next year and you have about $1,000,000 in the off season and you

have that oilers pick that you're most likely going to be dangling for something. You're going into

next year with these guys already having kind of laid the foundation of what it's like to go through

a playoff run. And now the expectation is next year, it's like this is a playoff team next year.

And some of these guys kind of have that cows built up and kind of have some of those wounds. So

if you know, if not getting a second round pick out of Mario Farrow is, you know, these two

these guys being a better overall team because Celebrini's gone through it now and Smith has gone

through it and all these guys have kind of gone through it. I think that that's a cost you can

maybe talk yourself into. So again, is it disappointing? Yes. I mean transactions are super fun,

right? It's fun to talk about transactions. But you know, I think for what Greer wants and what

Greer is trying to do, I get why he didn't do really anything and I understand. And again,

seeing these prices that went out today, ridiculous prices. So yeah, maybe Greer might have sold,

maybe he could have sold on somebody like a Farrow. But you know, I think with especially with

the weather Blues Rat, with they were selling and you know, the guys that the Jets Rat,

those I think were kind of the premier names on the market and maybe Greer just didn't get

what he really, really wanted. It wasn't blown away by an offer. So that's going to be for me,

like I said, we'll be back tonight. We're going to talk about these sharks Blues or again,

whatever is left of this Blues roster. So we'll talk about that game tonight to make sure you

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