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The Sharks traded veteran winger Timo Meier to the New Jersey Devils on Sunday in a massive nine-player deal that also includes four draft picks changing hands.
Both teams announced the deal shortly after 6 p.m. PT.
The Sharks receive defensemen Shakir Mukhamadullin and Nikita Okhotiuk, forwards Andreas Johnsson and Fabian Zetterlund, a 2023 first-round draft pick, a conditional 2024 first-round selection and a 2024 seventh-round choice in exchange for Meier, defensemen Scott Harrington and Santeri Hatakka, left wing Timur Ibragimov, goaltender Zachary Emond and a 2024 fifth-round pick (acquired in March from the Colorado Avalanche in the Andrew Cogliano trade).
The Sharks also will retain 50 percent of Meier’s $10 million salary this season.
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31 Comments
Shakir & Nikita & Zetterlund are all beasts!!! 🔥🔥🖤
Timo will definitely be extended so glad to have him in NJ here! 🖤🔥🔥🔥😈 LFGDDD!
NJ fans loving the trade and being relieved about not losing any of their elite prospects tells you all you need to know.
Even though The Sharks 🦈 didn’t get Mercer or anything it doesn’t matter the SJ scouts picked all great Devils Shakir, Nikita & especially Zetterlund are phenomenal players Shark fans are gonna love Zetterlund!
Grier is a moron. Burns, Kunin, Nieto, and now Timo. All absolutely junk trades for the Sharks. Sharks fans should withhold their money and support until he’s gone.
This one just…well…this one hurts. So many close games. We shouldn’t be this bad
LOL @ the question about packaging to trade for the 1st overall. that is 0% never going to happen. whoever gets the 1st overall is getting Bedard
Seems like people are undervaluing what SJ got back. They got an established young two-way forward with upside, a pre-rookie defenseman who easily projects to be a middle pairing scorer, another solid defensive prospect who projects to be NHL caliber, and 2 first round picks for a guy who was going to leave in 3 months. That’s potentially 5 controllable players for 1, at least two who are virtual locks to have good NHL careers. NJ fans are only ok giving up that haul because of the depth at both the NHL and AHL levels. Zetterburg and Mukhamadulin need ice time that NJ can’t give them right now. No matter how many good players a team has, there are limited roster spots
It's a reee
IMO, Muk is a better prospect than Holtz is right now. Muk was arguably the Devils’ 3rd best D prospect, after Hughes and Nemec, and he has top 4 potential.
Grier did a good job here. Zetterlund is solid. The 2 D-Men they got back I believe will be good to very good NHL players. Plus 3 picks, 2 of them first round. This is how you rebuild. Draft picks, draft picks, draft picks. That's how New Jersey did it. There is no easy way to it. It takes time, patience. This is a good start.
Anyone knowledgeable about Devils prospects would tell you that Shakir is a better prospect then Holtz, The only reason uninformed people wanted him was because he's more well known and he was picked 7th overall instead of 20th like Shakir.
Holtz development has stagnated since the draft and is a one dimensional sniper. a 6'4 2nd pairing D with long monkey arms and skate well is more valuable.
There probably was a chance that SJ could have gotten Nemec but it probably would have been close to a 1 to 1 trade. The Sharks are a rebuilding team that has a barren prospect pool, they need lots of assets and going for just one player instead of potentially 2 firsts a high end prospect and a 3rd line winger that can play in the top 6 would be stupid.
Fleece 😈
I like Mike, but this trade could be historically good for NJ.
Sharks fans on the ledge MONTHS into Grier's tenure after what he inherited from DW are wild. We suck right now and need a tear down and re-build. We also needed Defenceman prospects badly and we forget all the success we had over the last 20 years. Some fans have dealt with worse for longer times. We've had 4 bad seasons.
Zetterlund is a sold good player,,love the move
Obviously not the outcome Sharks fans wanted, but the salary cap hell Mike inherited kinda forced his hand and gave other teams leverage. Considering they wouldn't have been able to pay Timo what he wanted, I think Grier did a good job with this trade. Yes, you lose a 30-goal scoring Power Forward, yes you didn't get an elite prospect or Mercer, but Shakir, Zetterlund and Okhotiuk are deceptively good, young players, all projecting to be very good NHL players. Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald really had high praise for Mukhamadullin and decribed losing him, albeit a move he was willing to make, as tough. Plus you're getting the mandatory 1st-2nd round picks that could always turn into great players or trade capital. Feel bad for Mike, he did the best he could. ~Devils fan
Players aren't numbers. This isn't a strictly professional business anymore, being an organization that listens to players and works to get them where they want to be is how you become a place where players want to be.
Good personnel move that's going to keep them looking forward.
Boring team
This is the best management the Devils have had in a long time…we now have a player that gives a checks..instead of taking checks. We are too heavy at the speed. Now we have an enforcer!
You can still hear the shaking in his voice from Tim bending him over in this trade
The sharks got value. They got more chances of a diamond in the rough remember Pavs wasn't a first round pick. You all don't see what if meir gets hurt then the value is completely gone. Hockey is a dangerous sport.
Zetts is solid sj will love him, we will miss him in nj
Great trade, for both team.
Pushes are group forward? Lol
I don't envy Grier, trying to clean up the disastrous team destroying EK65 deal that DW forced through is a huge task. Not a knock on EK65, he should get whatever he can, just didn't make sense to spend that kind of money when we already had Burns and not enough cap space for that kind of deal.
No Holtz? No Schmid? And why give up a good young prospect in Hatakka? Idk man, Grier has really been disappointing me since he's been hired. This was a as premium an asset as it gets, and even if the Devils can't sign him they can trade him again bc he's an RFA. Just a really underwhelming return.
Classy move by Grier to do this interview and take all the questions and be quite candid in his answers. Thanks for posting. I agree with him that if one of several teams "went for it" with EK they would greatly increase their cup chances. I almost get the feeling he is surprised more teams didn't go harder? I wonder if Toronto gave it a shot before deciding to take safer/cheaper path with McCabe?
Terrible return for Meier IMO
If only someone would take Karlsson, Couture and Vlasic
This guy is 100% incompetent. Needs to be fired asap.