Penguins Trade Sergei Gonchar's Rights to the Sharks?

Supposedly, the twitter source is somewhat unreliable. And I normally am hesitant from reading too much into rumors. So hopefully it doesn’t come back to bite me! :eek:

Gonchar on the Sharks doesn’t make a lot of sense financially.

Yeah i read it, I have decided that it is secretly Eklund.

i think the twitter account might just be citing the Russian newspaper

Younger, more upside, not a pylon, etc.

Definitely. We really don’t need Gonchar, especially at anything around 5 mill. Plus we’d have to give something up in a trade for him.

I hope the rumor isn’t true, unless we signed him for 4 mill and traded huskins for his rights or something.

Sorry, he’s staying in New Jersey.

I was really worried for a second that this was true haha.

I don’t even want Gonchar for 3 million. I’d take him for 1…that’s how little I want him on this team. We can do SO MUCH BETTER in the free agent market…

Hopefully, not true, as of forever.

Chicago, it appears, will be able to successfully pawn off their dregs to crappy teams in look of “stanley cup experience.” Sigh. They really want to keep Sharp and Hjalmarsson (with good reason), and I suspect they’ll successfully navigate around that and make it happen.

but Atlanta will now have 3 players with African descent (Kane, Buff, and Aliu). Wonder if it’s also way to drum up more interest in a non-traditional market (apparently Atlanta’s population is 52% Black).

On the deal itself, damn, Chicago’s gonna have a lot more wiggle room to keep that core intact. Damn damn. The fact that they wrangled a first rounder in the process makes it that much more painful.

The trade (with Chi) was made possible via the Thrashers’ trade of Michael Vernace and Brett Sterling, along with a seventh-round selection in 2010, to the San Jose Sharks for “future considerations”

— from this article
and

“The Thrashers had to clear salary cap space to bring in the players they got from Chicago, so Atlanta made a another deal with San Jose, shipping defenseman Mike Vernace, forward Brett Sterling(notes) and a seventh-round draft choice to the Sharks for future considerations.”

And confirmed in this post on NHL.com.

but:

Recently, we passed along word that Patrick Marleau had purchased a house in Los Gatos, Calif., which is close to San Jose. The loose insinuation there was that this was a sign he’d be sticking with San Jose Sharks.

A bigger hint was dropped on Tuesday night, though. Sharks GM Doug Wilson announced in a pre-draft press conference that the team would not bring long-time goaltender Evgeni Nabokov back, and this would, on the surface, clear up a bunch of money to re-sign Marleau.

We have to caution that nothing is set in stone until the deal is officially announced, but it would appear that the Sharks have chosen Marleau over Nabokov.

they also had this to say:

There’s a rumor out of Russia that says the San Jose Sharks are trading for the rights to Sergei Gonchar, and they attribute TSN in the report. But we can’t find the TSN report anywhere, so we’re very skeptical about this possibility.

The Sharks have been looking for a blueliner after they lost Rob Blake to retirement, but we don’t see them trading for Gonchar’s rights since there are a handful of free agents on the market. In addition, it could cost them up to $6 million and, although they aren’t re-signing Evgeni Nabokov, they still have to lock up Patrick Marleau.

For now, we’ll file this one in the “very skeptical” file.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=325745