Confirmed with Link: Wild trade Addison to Sharks? Yes, for 2026 5th, Raska

[landshark]

Beaten out for a spot on the Wild defense by THIS GUY!

Pea nice belt FTW!!

 

[OffSydes]

Weird number. Safe to assume he was denied #2 because the Sharks expect to sign Smith at the end of the season?

He is joining an elite group

 

[fasterthanlight]

He is going an elite group

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put some respect on Adin "Stanley Cup Winner With The Los Vegas Golden Knights Good God I Cannot Believe This Is The Timeline We Live In If Watching Hockey Is Supposed To Be Fun Why Does It Feel More Like Eternal Suffering" Hill

 

[Anomie2029]

Good trade. Didn't give up much for a young Dman with some decent point totals.
Would be good to have a Dman that can actually move the puck.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

Watched Addison for 4 years in Juniors with the Hurricanes! Great skater and good PP QB! Needs to play with a Defensive D-man...I'm thinking SMukhamadullin when he's ready

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

CapFriendly says 5'10', 178 lbs.

His legs along are 172 lbs

 

[weastern bias]

Actually will be #33

Elite jersey number, love him already

 

[mogambomoroo]

Also would like to add that I love how MG has build a young and fun defensive core in one year without moving anything major (If you don't count the Meier trade and Mukhamadullin)

Addison will probably be bad defensively, but if he can be our PP1 player through the darker times and produce, that's all we can ask.
I'm excited that MG makes things happen and is actually bringing pieces that we need to have.

I don't see Addison being the next Burns (because Minnesota hehe) but he'll move the puck and will have all the time and space to do his thing. Great Job MG!

 

[hohosaregood]

Also would like to add that I love how MG has build a young and fun defensive core in one year without moving anything major (If you don't count the Meier trade and Mukhamadullin)

Addison will probably be bad defensively, but if he can be our PP1 player through the darker times and produce, that's all we can ask.
I'm excited that MG makes things happen and is actually bringing pieces that we need to have.

I don't see Addison being the next Burns (because Minnesota hehe) but he'll move the puck and will have all the time and space to do his thing. Great Job MG!

Ferraro, Knyzhov, Okhotiuk, Mukhamadullin, Thrun, Emberson, Addison, and Gawanke should be a solid stopgap tank group for the next 2-3 years.

 

[timorous me]

Doing some digging for information on Addison. Here's a bit from an interview with Dean Evason from September and his comments on Addison:

One’s got to assume sanity will prevail and Calen Addison will sign in the next few days and be on the ice Thursday. We saw him perform really well on the power play last year. But he was scratched 19 of the final 29 regular-season games and all of the playoffs. I know you genuinely like him as a person and player. So what does he have to do at five-on-five to earn your trust?

Compete defensively every single shift. There’s a different bracket of compete. So on the power play, he competes. When he has the puck, he’s intense, right? He makes plays … it’s quick, it’s hard. You have to do that on five-on-five, too. And that’s what we’re trying to stress to him is that five-on-five, defensively, you have to have that same intensity level. You can’t just wait for the power play to be good and intense and gritty, to a certain extent, which he is. That doesn’t just get turned on and turned off. So that’s what we challenged him with last year. At the end of the year, we challenged him to be more committed defensively as far as his compete level. Do the same thing as he’s doing on a power play.

There's also this very nice episode of "Becoming Wild" that lets you really get to know the player (I wish the Sharks did something like this!):

 

[PacificOceanPotion]

MG” welcome to the organization..Excited to have you. Think you’ll really help us…by the way, did you have a number in mind?”

Addison “Yeah…#2”

MG “…..That’s taken..”

Addison “Wait..I don…”

MG “ Its TAKEN….”

 

[LadyStanley]

The Deep? Off Days?

 

[timorous me]

The Deep? Off Days?

This is way better and more in-depth. It's an actual 24-minute show with good production values.

 

[landshark]

This is way better and more in-depth. It's an actual 24-minute show with good production values.

It was pretty good. I was kinda surprised at how well put together it was.

Guerin lookin' a bit like Shatner was pretty comical, too.

 

[Jargon]

I feel like Grier reads my posts here because I keep asking for a PMD, even if he can’t play defense and Grier delivers!

Honestly, if he can help us break out or keep the puck in the other team’s zone, he’s necessary to making this team watchable

 

[Cas]

I feel like Grier reads my posts here because I keep asking for a PMD, even if he can’t play defense and Grier delivers!

Honestly, if he can help us break out or keep the puck in the other team’s zone, he’s necessary to making this team watchable

I mean, that alone on one out of every three shifts is going to cut back on our shots against by, what, 2-3 per game? Maybe also generate one additional shot for per game? That'd be something like one fewer goal against every 5 games, and another goal scored every 10 games?

That all seems too generous to me, maybe half that. Not enough to change the team's fortunes, but maybe enough to keep us from being caved in on every shift every game. I'd like for us to at least score some goals and win a few games. The Oilers are bad, but I don't think they're 37 points bad, and I think we are worse than that.

 

[The Nemesis]

He is joining an elite group

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Any group with Marcus Ragnarsson in it is elite.

 

[WTFetus]

The Deep? Off Days?

That's like comparing a random youtuber's vlog to network television.

 

[tiburon12]

This is way better and more in-depth. It's an actual 24-minute show with good production values.

It's too bad the team is located in desert of good digital media talent. Everyone knows the best marketers move to Minny

 

[The Nemesis]

I feel like Grier reads my posts here because I keep asking for a PMD, even if he can’t play defense and Grier delivers!

Honestly, if he can help us break out or keep the puck in the other team’s zone, he’s necessary to making this team watchable

This is the monkey's paw response. You want a PMD? Well have one that can't find his way around his own zone with a map and someone feeding him directions!

 

[The Nemesis]

It's too bad the team is located in desert of good digital media talent. Everyone knows the best marketers move to Minny

I gave up on the Sharks leveraging their location's tech advantages when they did those post game hits with Sonya Tydingco that looked like she was recording them on a potato 2004 webcam.

 

[Munnyro]

I'm happy to have something to watch for and be excited about. 5th round is for suckers!

 

[tiburon12]

I gave up on the Sharks leveraging their location's tech advantages when they did those post game hits with Sonya Tydingco that looked like she was recording them on a potato 2004 webcam.

wasn;t that while Zoom was their helmet sponsor? lol

 

[drunksage]

wasn;t that while Zoom was their helmet sponsor? lol

Pretty sure that the sponsor of whatever those were was Webex by Cisco.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

I gave up on the Sharks leveraging their location's tech advantages when they did those post game hits with Sonya Tydingco that looked like she was recording them on a potato 2004 webcam.

I miss Sonya.