Do Sharks fans think the team will be shopping him? Does San Jose need cap space? Just curious what the context of the trade would be. If they're trying to clear salary, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a team or two looking at it as a buy low option. Were the habs in different circumstances to need/use him I wouldn't mind my team considering adding him.
Honestly, this thread may or may not be entirely for the purpose of showing somebody else that Boedker’s contract wouldn’t be hard to move at all.
They’ve got more than enough cap space to re-sign Thornton, Hertl, and Tierney, and then upgrade on one of Dylan DeMelo or Justin Braun on the defense. The issue is that they’re probably going to be in the running for Tavares and Karlsson, and they may need to move Boedker’s salary in order to facilitate that.
Right now, they’ve got 7 wingers (Kane, Pavelski, Donskoi, Hertl/Couture, Boedker, Meier, LaBanc) that are clearly strictly top-9 players, and only 6 spots for them. One of those guys will have to be gone for next season as none of these guys are 4th liners. I actually really like Boedker and if I were a team with ~$4M in cap space looking for a solid 2nd/3rd line playmaking winger, I would be all over Boedker. But that really isn’t the case for San Jose. They have more than enough top-9 wingers and Boedker is the most expendable relative to his cap hit and we might need every penny to acquire one of Tavares/Karlsson or another superstar level player if they become available.