Ian White acquisition may be trade deadline's best

The trade for White was still Joslin and a 2nd. But all in all, it still seems a very fair price to pay. Joslin had reached his ceiling with us. He may go on to a more fruitful career in Carolina, but I feel we parted with him at the right time, and we certainly got more than enough in return.

That suggests Ian White is somehow the magically key to Sharks winning games. The Sharks were good before the deadline, but were great after acquiring White. The Sharks were killing the Kings in Game 1… Until White got injured. They eked out an overtime win and got slaughtered in a White-less Game 2. White comes back in Game 3, and it end sup being one of the best games of hockey I’ve seen. Game 4 was all Sharks.

I’m telling you, there’s something to this!

I’ve wanted White since he was in Toronto. Couldn’t be happier that he’s a Shark now.

I was watching the Bruins-Habs game with the roomie yesterday, and both of us commented about how awful Kaberle had been playing, and how much better an acquisition White had turned out to be. Hopefully he keeps it up, because his scoring from the back end is really helpful to us.

Are you saying at this point DW is feeling a bit of White pride?

White and Wellwood have been amazing so far but Eager hasn’t been so good in the playoffs. I think we should scratch Mayers and play Ginner.

Ian White looks like the love child of Danny Boyle and Dexter (Michael C. Hall) and aside from that, I’m enjoying his game so far.

Dude has five assists in three games. Clowe leads scoring with 7(!) points (4-3), and couture is tied with White (2-3). What I love about this Sharks team compared to the teams of years past is how they now have three complete scoring lines. The points can literally come from anywhere. Gone are the days where you could win against the Sharks just by defending HTML well.

Ian is a Great White Shark now!
Great player… and not too bad on the eyes… from a gals point of view of course! :-)

Purdy continues to talk shit.

Forget it, Purdy!

in my opinion the most impressive players this series have been white, wellwood, and clowe. these guys have been monsters out there (even though wellwood needs to freaking shoot, he gets the puck deep and has made some clutch plays).

not to jump too far ahead of ourselves, but i definitely think we should drop mayers (no-brainer. i cant stand him), wallin and huskins next year. white HAS to be resigned and i wouldnt mind resigning eager either (hometown discount?). i was reading somewhere about how we should maybe ship crankshaft for a more mobile defenseman with a big shot (suggested weber). i could see how this would help us on the back end… but i cant imagine the sharks without big douglas murray :( and weber would come at a high price

but think about it…
boyle-weber
braun-white
demers-vlasic or something of that nature… i like that. a lot. (still sad with no murray there)

It’s been so much fun watching him play this series. He’s been good for awhile but he’s been looking GREAT this series.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen him leading/up in the rush or how often he’s kept pucks in at the blueline and either gotten it through to the net or read the play well enough to throw it into an area of ice where he knows his guy can get it. I think he probably had 2-3 smart plays on the shift where Clowe scored his tap-in during the Game 3 comeback.

Vlasic for Prime Minister.

I picked White to be our breakout player of the post-season. I’m really glad his injury wasn’t as bad as it looked. Here’s to the Great White Shark.

Agreed. I have liked this trade for a while now, he’s looked great in Teal thus far.

Especially when you consider the suspect moves of Huskins and re-signing Wallin. Luckily both s/b gone next year and that will be enough $$$ to re-sign White. With Boyle, Vlasic, Murray, Demers, Braun, and White, we have our starting 6. Sprinkle in a couple of guys from Worcester and our D already looks better for next year. If we’re going to bring back Seto, I’m guessing it will take around $2.5 or $3 million, unless he’s tendered an offer in which case it may be more. I’d love for Wellwood to come back to stick with Pav’s and Mitchell. As for the fourth line, it may be time next year to get younger, with Mashinter, Wingles and Petrecki. We can pick up a bruiser anytime. Ferriero, McGinn, and McCarthy are all RFA’s and expendable to me. Is Nitty worth that $2 million DW gave him? He’s got one year left, and that’s a lot of cap $$$ to pay a back up goalie. Also, there is no way Logan Couture gets mentioned in any trade, he’s just way to valueable and really cheap next year. So we’re poised to be a very strong team again next season.

Is Nitty worth that $2 million DW gave him? He’s got one year left, and that’s a lot of cap $$$ to pay a back up goalie.

Game 3. Just sayin’. Between him and Nemo next season, we’d have $5.4M invested in 2 goaltenders. That’s high-ish, but not outlandish. Unless we think Greiss is going to have some magical rainbow pooping bounceback or Stalock is ready to be a full-time NHL backup, stick with the guy you know can give you 40 solid starts.

Sprinkle in a couple of guys from Worcester and our D already looks better for next year.

I love the idea of Braun in the top 6, but let’s not take it for granted he’s going to be an 82 gamer for us just yet. We’re tempted to, because of the strides Demers has made this season, but Jason really buckled down in the off-season and did some hard work to become NHL-ready. Not saying that Braun can’t, just that we shouldn’t ASSUME it. Also, as far as the D-men left in Worcester, I think they’re all still a season or two away. Moore doesn’t have NHL speed yet, and I don’t think we’ve seen enough from Petrecki or Doherty to properly assess them.

Ferriero, McGinn, and McCarthy are all RFA’s and expendable to me.

I’d disagree on Ferriero. He’s always looked good with the big club whenever he’s been given a chance. At the very least, I think he’s a promising enough prospect that he’s worth moving for a young defensive prospect to restock the cupboard in Worcester if we decided he wasn’t going to crack the current crop of forwards with the big club. And if the unthinkable happened and someone offer-sheeted Seto to the point we couldn’t match, Ferriero would seem to be the most logical replacement. You could put HTML back together and put Ferriero with Cloweture, where he’s already shown some prowess.

I’ve been wanting us to sign ian white since early last offseason. You can see all my posts lobbying for him to be signed here.

Like i said in one of the posts, when Ian White turns it on he’s easily on par with Dan Boyle, except you make a tradeoff of some of Boyle’s skating ability for a better point shot owned by White.

The one knock on Ian White during this last offseason and at the deadline was that he was inconsistent, but i think that can be attributed to a lack of motivation due to him playing on weak hockey teams that don’t make the playoffs. Now that’s he’s on a cup contending team and he’s actually playing in the playoffs he’s finally playing up to his abilities, and he looks amazing.

I still can’t believe how cheap we got him for. I’m sure he’ll be resigned next season, and hopefully we can find him a better defense partner to play with too. Sorry Hamburgers!

IT’S CHRISTMAS!

I’m really happy to have White. And the price we paid was one that should go up on the big board of DW finding value.

I think his performance now is a reflection of him finally being comfortable in our system. I think his issues in Toronto had to do with Toronto having issues. I think his issues in Carolina were because (as White hinted) they wanted him to be more of a defensive, physical defenseman and that’s not at all his game. Now that he can do what he does best, he’s starting to score.

Probably doesn’t hurt that he’s pumped to be in the playoffs, too.

Enjoy.

Looks like the Wild are not gonna pick up Brent Burns’s contract. You know DW is going to at-least look into it. Cap would be pretty tight, but gosh goly what a D lineup that would be.

I would like to put this out there because he gets a lot of flak…
Thank you, Doug Wilson, for the players you brought in.
Go Sharks!

…and pretty much all of us repented at this point. ;-)

He has the skills, the discipline, and just plain of fashioned enthusiasm that seems to carry over to the rest of the team when he’s on ice. He brought back a type of blocking rarely seen here that seems to have spread to the rest of the team quite a bit (falling to the ice to take away low angle).

And then there’s everything Matt outlined above.

And you’ve got oa admit, there sure is something cool about seeing a kid that’s never been in the playoffs bloom in their first series: At least one point in every game he’s been in so far.

Awesome.

Way to go, “Great White!”

The day we got Ian White, I remarked that finally we have a complete team and a replacement for Rob Blake. That now all the defensemen had their assignments and the team was complete with White taking the Blake role.

Little did I know that it would work out this well. Ian White is the perfect offensive defenseman to round out our defensive core. The record with Ian in the lineup speaks for itself.

Go Sharks

Even though the Sharks have never won the cup, I for one am so happy that DW is our GM. This guy gets so much criticism from fans and the hockey press for not getting the Sharks over the hump to the finals. That he has put together a team of guys that don’t care enough or are down right chokers. This franchise has been in the hunt for the cup the last six years
and you really can’t ask a whole lot more from this team.

You look at the other bay area franchises that their level of success pales in comparison to the consistent winning of the Sharks.

Now that I have said all of that. It sure would be nice to get this team to the finals. If they don’t make it that far, it doesn’t take away from the superb job DW has done.

For Murray to single out Heatley for what he did after what Stoll did to Ian White and call Heatley a dirty player was very laughable.

TERRY MURRAY IS A FREAKING CRYBABY AND IF ITS TOO TOUGH IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR HIM, HE CAN RETIRE AND GO PLAY GOLF. I HATE IT WHEN COACHES WHO DON’T DO ANYTHING BUT STAND BEHIND THE BENCH, INTERJECT THEIR DISTAIN FOR PHYSICAL HOCKEY WHEN THEIR OWN PLAYERS USE DIRTIER TACTICS THAN WHATS HE’S COMPLAINING ABOUT. GO LOOK AT STOLL’S HIT ON WHITE AND THEN HEATLEY’S HIT AND THEN YOU WILL SHUT UP.