I've complained about this enough on the Sharks board but this is a horrific trade for San Jose
Not due to the quality of player or the value of the picks, but for the current situation the Sharks are in
After missing the playoffs in back to back seasons, one of which included a last place finish in the conference and a subsequent forfeiting of the 3rd overall pick, we just traded a future 2nd for a goalie who has played 49 NHL games, has put up average numbers and is an unsigned RFA
This team is not making the playoffs next year unless Adin Hill wins the Vezina and Hart trophies and carries the shitpile San Jose Sharks roster to the postseason on his own, but even if he does they won't win a damn thing once they get there
On the other side of the season they will be a year older, a year worse, and will have given up the right to select one of the 64 best incoming teenaged prospects that this team desperately needs to usher in a new era
Doug Wilson is flailing wildly in a desperate attempt to keep his job and he has inexplicably been gifted the opportunity to fix the mess of a roster and salary structure that he has created and it appears his solution is to make more of the same shortsighted "win now" moves when his team has absolutely zero chance to accomplish anything of consequence
This trade awful, and it may only get worse depending on what the contract extension looks like
At least Wilson hasn't been known to give out overinflated deals to middling talents. . . oh wait. . .