The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

[LeafOfFaith]

With some really good players getting stolen in trades, I'm hoping one is coming to us soon.

2026 is the year of the traded RFA. Which good ones are out there that are commanding big money?

 

[Preston]

Definitely best to keep Knies in the small chance you can use him as a bullet for Werenski. Only way I was open to trading him for another top 5 pick was if one of these d were more certain to be a 1. They're all equally good prospects, but just good.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

With some really good players getting stolen in trades, I'm hoping one is coming to us soon.

2026 is the year of the traded RFA. Which good ones are out there that are commanding big money?

Alot of these guys were not stolen, almost everything except the rapist had a premium tag attachd to it.

Even Doro, which was cheaper than Byram/Peterka, still a premium for an RFA thats going to probably get 12M

 

[Killer93]

You keep Knies unless your getting a top 2 D or #1C

 

[mbow30]

Viggo the carpathian.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Sharks are probably pretty happy with Vierhoff here,

 

[Kritter]

Nice to see san jose has a diversity of celebrities

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Im guessing these players were asked what walk up music they wanted. Bah

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://x.com/Daniele_Media/status/2070650783268302981?s=20

 

[axlsalinger]

damn this worked out perfectly for the Sharks.

 

[Killer93]

Time for Chayka to cook

 

[Kritter]

damn this worked out perfectly for the Sharks.

Yea the sharks have already had a great draft

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

7 x 11 extension for Dorofeyev

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Cullen is a good pick

 

[MindzEye]

It's 8:20 and they're just now doing the 10th pick.

I miss when the teams were all on the floor and everyone was throwing phones around.

 

[hockeylover]

Yeah I don’t love this format.

 

[thehabhater]

View: https://x.com/markhmasters/status/2070653788365451692?s=20

Also, his mom didn’t card us at the bar.

 

[WellPlayed]

Ya seeing GMs work the phones and wondering what they could be working on is way more interesting than third tier celebrities from every city and fucking terrible walk up music selected by 18 year olds

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

These musical interludes are fucking wildly brutal

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

It's 8:20 and they're just now doing the 10th pick.

I miss when the teams were all on the floor and everyone was throwing phones around.

keeping the teams at home and replacing them with oddball celebrities and a shit DJ is fucking terrible.

Give me John Muckler not knowing how to put someone on hold or use the rotary phone bolted to his desk