San Jose Sharks make this trade to unload an anchor of a contract that was supposed to get us some points for at least one more season but instead Niemi has bolted to the KHL and that $5.5 million cap hit for another 4yrs seems too heavy for our franchise to carry. I know the boys in Buffalo are laughing that they unloaded Antti sooner than later. We will take a serviceable contract like Lucic but maybe we'll "Corey Perry" him in the 2020 offseason if he can't get it together in 2019-20.
Trade to SJ
Milan Lucic, $7.3m (2017-2021) Contract unloaded
Round 2 - 2019 (from *)
Round 4 - 2019
Trade to Florida
Antti Niemi, $5.5m (2018-2022) Contract dump
Kole Sherwood, $0.6m (2018-2020)
PigsRule to confirm.
Draft list, SJ & FLA done