Yesterday was busy for the Sharks. Doug Wilson made a series of trades, acting as a middle man to send Mike Hoffman from Ottawa to Florida and picking up several draft picks along the way.
First, to acquire Mike Hoffman from the Senators, Wilson moved parallel pieces on each side. Let’s look at this piece by piece.
Sharks’ 2020 sixth-round pick for Senators’ 2020 fifth-round pick
This seems hardly worth mentioning on their own, but build toward a larger result. The Sharks moved up to take another fifth-round pick, but with the Senators clear commitment to getting worse and the Sharks seemingly on their way to building a superteam, the differences in those picks might only be a handful of positions.