SAN JOSE – It wasn’t a surprise to Sharks players to hear a report that general manager Mike Grier is willing to listen to trade offers for the vast majority of players on the team.
“They’re trying to fill the four minutes on Insider Trading,” defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said of the TSN show. “It’s early in the year.” No moves appear to be imminent, but if parting with some of the core players is Grier’s intention over the next couple of seasons, like LeBrun indicated, it won’t be pain-free.
The contract for Vlasic, 35, has an average annual value of $7 million for the next three years and a full no-move clause until the end of this season. Then it turns into a modified no-trade clause in which he would only accept a trade to only one of three teams. “They’ve always had that confidence in me and the desire to keep me here, and I’ve always had that desire, even before anything else.”