San Jose Hockey Now Podcast · Sheng Peng, Keegan McNally, Bleav

Who Should Sharks Trade For? Demers Talks Sherwood, D-Men Targets | EP 117

·1 hr 49 min·5 clips

Demers says he would trade Eklund and Musty for Owen Power in the right deal.

The episode starts loose. Sponsor talk, repeated reminders about the BringHockeyBack promo code, and the usual wandering set the table before the hockey debate actually kicks in. Then the Sharks discussion takes over. One host makes the case that San Jose can make the playoffs, and the group keeps circling that idea through the usual blend of feel, trajectory, and early-season momentum. They do not stay abstract for long. The bigger question is who the Sharks should trade for, and that opens the door for Jason Demers to jump in and talk through what kind of help would really move the needle. From there it gets more specific. The conversation turns to defensemen, with the group sorting players into tiers and separating the rare guys who can drive a blue line on their own from the ones who need a very particular partner beside them. Fit matters more than hype. They keep coming back to that point while discussing top names and what makes a defender genuinely useful in San Jose's situation. Adam Fox comes up as an example of a player who is excellent but still needs the right partner, and the same logic gets applied to other high-end defensemen. Sam Dickinson enters the discussion in that context. The group pushes back on the fantasy that you can simply drop in one big name and let Dickinson handle the rest, arguing that the pairing has to work in real hockey, not just in theory. Even a top-20 defenseman may still need cover from a solid left-shot partner, the kind of fit that changes how the entire pairing functions. Once the hockey point has landed, the conversation drifts back into movie-length banter and a loose sign-off that makes the show feel more like a room full of Sharks people than a polished studio product. By the end, the episode has done what it set out to do: turn trade talk into a concrete argument about timeline, fit, and the kinds of defensemen San Jose can actually use.

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A roster-fit discussion that works best when it turns from trade chatter to defensive pairings.

The San Jose Hockey Now podcast opens with sponsor chatter, then moves into a practical question: how the Sharks can improve and which trade targets actually make sense.

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Trade talk, partner fit, and Jason Demers on how the Sharks can get better.

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