"The San Jose Sharks have made some moves before the start of the season, indicating what's likely in store when the roster is officially in place on Thursday, Oct. 9, against the Vegas Golden Knights. Today, General Manager Mike Grier announced that he traded Carl Grundstrom and Artem Guryev to the Philadelphia Flyers for Ryan Ellis and a conditional 6th-round draft pick in the 2026 NHL draft."
"For the Flyers, this was a way to get rid of a bad contract and get some cap breathing room. Ryan Ellis is a 34-year-old injured defenseman who will likely never play an NHL game again. The team needed to move the contract. The Sharks have some breathing room to make that happen. The sixth-round draft pick was a pot sweetener to get the Sharks to take the full brunt of Ellis' contract off of Philadelphia's hands."
"As for the Sharks, every NHL team can only have 50 active NHL contracts at one time, and San Jose was very, very close to that mark (49) before activating Sam Dickinson. It's clear the Sharks wants to give Dickinson a shot, but to do so, it needs to clear out a few contracts first. By trading Grundstrom and Guryev and only taking Ellis' contract back, San Jose did a two-for-one swap. Now the team can activate Dickinson and still have a bit of breathing room."
The San Jose Sharks traded Carl Grundstrom and Artem Guryev to the Philadelphia Flyers for Ryan Ellis and a conditional sixth-round pick in the 2026 NHL draft. Philadelphia moved Ellis's contract to create cap breathing room; Ellis is a 34-year-old injured defenseman unlikely to play another NHL game, and the pick compensated the Sharks. Ellis carries two years at a $6.25 million AAV, yielding about $6.365 million in cap space for the Flyers. San Jose used the trade to clear an active-contract slot so it could activate Sam Dickinson while minimizing waiver complications.
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