Sharks pull trigger on some deals, excited for draft

July 12, 2012 - Trade ban must be lifted as the Sharks have started some summer time activity. 

The Sharks pulled the trigger on a few deals this week.

The first deal was a deal with the Colorado Avalance.  The Sharks sent Anahiem's 5th in 2012 to Colorado for prosepct Brian Day and Colorado's 7th in 2013.

The second deal was with the Buffalo Sabres.  The Sharks sent James Sheppard, Jeff Woywitka, Tim Conboy and Chicago's 3rd in 2012 to Bufflo for Michael Sauer, prospect Tobias Rieder and Buffalo's 4th in 2013.

The final deal was the Sharks sending JP Dumont back to Nashville for Daniel Alfredsson. 

 "I was pretty happy with all of these deals."  Said Sharks GM Kurt Fulmore.  "We feel we should get some good selections with the first and 3 second round picks we have in this draft so we shuffled some picks around picked up a couple more picks for next year's draft.  Got a little younger on D with Sauer coming to us but he looks to be a very serviceable shutdown D-man.  We were happy to get Tobias in the system as well.  Our scouts were happy to hear that we had acquired him.  They had seem him play for Kitchener when they were out in the field and they liked what they saw.   85 pts in 60 games.  Nice numbers.  Hopefully, it can translate to the pro level.  Last but not least, we welcome Daniel back.  We didn't really want to deal Alfy around the trade deadline last year but with what direction the team was going at the end of the season, it was something that had to be done.  I'm very pleased to get him back into the fold.  He can help chip in on offence, defence and give our younger team some good advice and insight to help them move forward in their careers."

The Sharks have 5 selections in this year's draft.  1 first, 3 seconds and 1 fourth round pick.
"We are always excited for the draft, especially when we have a high pick.  We still haven't decided who we want to select with our first rounder but we should have everything ironed out by this weekend."

Sharks GM Kurt Fulmore will, unfortunately, will be unable to attend this year's draft as other commitments are keeping him from attending.  (Dang work!!!)  His assistant Send Ing Alist will be making the selections for the Sharks in his absense.