Trade Deadline Buzz: Sharks Want 1st for Ferraro?

Here’s a running diary of what I’ve heard San Jose Sharks-related around the Trade Deadline.

The Sharks may be tapped out of big moves, after dealing Mackenzie Blackwood, Mikael Granlund, Cody Ceci, Vitek Vanecek, Nico Sturm, and Jake Walman in the lead-up to the Mar. 7 12 PM PT Deadline.

But Luke Kunin and Mario Ferraro are still possibilities, and they’ve got four first-round picks in 2025 and 2026 to wave around.

9:46 AM

A source outside of the San Jose Sharks expects a third for Kunin closer to the Deadline.

9:33 AM

I might be proven wrong, but my digging around this morning suggests that the Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t the team closest on Kunin. I’ll keep checking on it.

The price for Ferraro? I’m told a first-plus. That’s wild to me. Maybe that’s just negotiating and you can talk down the San Jose Sharks? But canvassing the league, it feels like a second-plus is already considered an overpay.

What I’m told about Carl Berglund, who the Sharks picked up in the Jake Walman trade? While he’s 25 like Patrick Giles, he’s not seen as having an NHL future, while Giles is seen as that. Berglund is not an every-night AHL forward, in one executive’s opinion.