OilersNation has reported:

The Edmonton Oilers and San Jose Sharks have completed seven trades since the Sharks entered the NHL in 1991-92. Three of those deals, all involving former Sharks defencemen, came in the past two years, as Edmonton’s roster changed through trades involving Ty Emberson, Jake Walman and Darnell Nurse.

The teams have seldom been serious Stanley Cup contenders at the same time, and they did not share a division during the first two decades of San Jose’s existence. Their only trade while they were in different divisions came before the 1993-94 season, when Edmonton sent a 1994 10th-round draft pick to San Jose for Link Gaetz on Sept. 10, 1993.

The Sharks used the pick to select Tomáš Pisa, a Czech-born forward who did not play in the NHL or even in the American Hockey League. Gaetz had a longer hockey career, but appeared in only 65 games overall. Of those, 48 were with San Jose in 1991-92, when he scored six goals and 12 points and recorded 326 penalty minutes, the 44th-highest total in NHL history. His rate exceeded six penalty minutes per game.

Gaetz never appeared for Edmonton in the NHL, although he played 21 games for the Oilers’ American Hockey League team in 1993-94. Later, he played for several teams in Québec’s Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey. He became known for buying a hamburger from the concession stands during the second intermission of what proved to be his final professional game.

The clubs’ next three transactions were also modest in their NHL impact. On July 6, 2013, Edmonton traded Kyle Bigos, a 2009 draft pick, to San Jose for Lee Moffie. Neither player appeared in an NHL game or played for the Oilers’ organization. A detail behind the deal was that Edmonton had acquired the draft pick used to select Bigos from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Kyle Brodziak.

A little more than a month later, the Oilers sent enforcer Mike Brown to the Sharks for a 2014 fourth-round pick. Brown played 35 games for Edmonton across the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, scoring one goal and accruing 72 penalty minutes. The arrival of another tough player, Luke Gazdic, helped make Brown available. Gazdic was among a small group of players, including Mario Lemieux, to score a goal in his first game, on his first shot and during his first shift.

Edmonton used the fourth-round selection on goaltender Zach Nagelvoort. He played four seasons at the University of Michigan, then appeared in three professional games. The trade therefore did not produce a lasting NHL contribution for the Oilers.

The teams’ next trade came on March 2, 2022, when Edmonton sent goaltender Alex Stalock to San Jose for future considerations. Stalock had not played a game for the Oilers. He appeared once for the Sharks in 2021-22 and 27 times in 2022-23 before his NHL career ended. San Jose had originally drafted him 112th overall in the 2005 NHL Draft, and this was his second stint with the club.

The more consequential trades began in the summer of 2024. Edmonton faced a salary-cap decision after Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg received offer sheets, and moved Cody Ceci and a 2025 third-round pick to San Jose for Ty Emberson. Ceci, remembered in Edmonton as a Game 7 legend, played 54 games for the Sharks in 2024-25 before they sent him to the Dallas Stars.

San Jose used the draft pick to select Teddy Mutryn, who was expected to make his collegiate debut with Boston College. Emberson settled into a third-pairing role in Edmonton. In 2024-25, he scored two goals and 13 points in 76 regular-season games, then played nine postseason games. The following season, he recorded two goals and 12 points in 72 games, with assists in the Oilers’ six playoff games. He has also appeared in two games for Edmonton this season.

Seeking a blue-line upgrade ahead of the 2025 postseason, Edmonton traded its 2026 first-round pick and Carl Berglund to San Jose for Jake Walman. Walman arrived as a welcome addition, particularly while Mattias Ekholm was out for most of Edmonton’s 2025 playoff run. The Oilers’ return on the deal has been mixed: Walman struggled and dealt with injuries during the 2025-26 season, then had a difficult start to 2026-27. He had previously raised his level in the playoffs and was Edmonton’s best defenceman in its six-game series loss to the Anaheim Ducks in 2026.

The 2026 first-round pick later went to the Buffalo Sabres ahead of June’s draft. Buffalo used it to acquire Michael Kesselring, a player who had formerly been in Edmonton’s organization. San Jose also brought in Jacob Trouba and Darnell Nurse as it sought to strengthen its defence.

Nurse had spent 12 seasons with Edmonton after the Oilers selected him seventh overall in 2013. The left-shot defenceman recorded 88 goals and 324 points in 798 regular-season games for the club, along with seven goals and 29 points in 100 postseason games. He was set to face his former team for the first time since the Oilers traded him the previous summer.

On July 1, Edmonton sent Nurse to San Jose for defenceman Shakir Mukhamadullin and prospect Zack Sharp. The Oilers also cleared Nurse’s full $9.25 million salary-cap hit, which enabled them to sign Ryan Shea. Mukhamadullin, drafted 20th overall in 2020, had joined San Jose in the major trade that sent Timo Meier to New Jersey before the 2023 trade deadline.

Mukhamadullin played 83 games for the Sharks over parts of three seasons, scoring seven goals and 22 points. In 2025-26, he had five goals and 12 points in 50 games. His start in Edmonton was more difficult: he and Walman had poor results together on a pairing in the Oilers’ two games against the Vancouver Canucks.

Sharp plays for Western Michigan University, where he was a teammate of Owen Michaels in 2024-25 and 2025-26. The team won the first national championship in the program’s history. A defenceman, Sharp was selected fourth overall by San Jose in the 2025 NHL Draft. The Sharks had acquired that pick from Dallas in the Ceci trade before the 2025 trade deadline. His future contribution to Edmonton remains to be seen.