Le podcast Hockey Now est parrainé par Bring Hockey! Parlons de la date limite de reconstruction de l’état des Sharks de San Jose! Steve Werier, ancien directeur général adjoint de Florida Panthers, qui écrit maintenant pour Puckpedia, nous rejoint pour partager ses pensées. (58:13) Mais avant d’arriver à Steve, parlons des dernières nouvelles des Sharks! Qu’avons-nous pensé de Luca Cagnoni dans la LNH jusqu’à présent? (4:32) Qu’en est-il de Shakir Mukhamadullin, Patrick Giles, Will Smith, Mario Ferraro et la récente pièce de William Eklund? Cam Lund a signé son contrat d’entrée de gamme! (35:37) Qu’est-ce que Sheng entend sur le défenseur des nouveaux Sharks de San Jose Noah Beck? (53:15) Et maintenant, Steve! (58:13) Quelles sont les pensées générales de Steve sur la reconstruction des Sharks? Qu’ont-ils fait mieux que d’autres équipes de reconstruction comme les Blackhawks de Chicago? (58:56) Y a-t-il des RFA que les Sharks de San Jose devraient cibler cet été? (1:14:18) Steve pense qu’il est peut-être temps pour les Sharks de faire un pas sur une grande UFA comme Mitch Marner et Nikolaj Ehlers. Comment les Sharks peuvent-ils éviter les reconstructions pour toujours que les Sénateurs d’Ottawa, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings et Utah Hockey Club ont enduré? (1:19:50) Que pense Steve de la LNH qui sort enfin de l’ère des contraintes de plafond? Steve a travaillé avec Aaron Ekblad avec les Florida Panthers, est-il un bon objectif de l’UFA pour les Sharks de San Jose? (1:51:47)
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Keep up the great podcasts, loving the more frequent uploads. Hoping we can get Schaefer/Misa this upcoming draft, this offseason will be a true test for Grier if he can add the right pieces and SHOULD be exciting for Shark fans!
Steve Werier has the voice of a man who watches The Big Lebowski on a regular basis
EDIT: Well my original comment was about fact checking the guest speaker on offer sheets.
But he said you could trade for a 3rd … so I started to doubt myself…?
This means my original post would have stood, but I didn't want to be an ass to the guest.
SJS doesn't have their own 2026 3rd, so they can't.
Stupid to trade SJS 2026 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, if we even had them.
Very. Bad. Idea.
ENDEDIT.
I read up on the RFA offer sheet rules. An offer sheet of around $8mil, range is $6,871,375 – $9,161,834, would cost three picks:
2026 1st (EDM)
2026 2nd (COL)
2026 3rd – sharks currently don't have one, but could acquire it.
For the first time, this seems plausible to me… I don't know who fits this and I'm not sold on JJ Peterka being worth it, but the idea is out there.
No way the Sharks make an RFA offer that costs them a 1st rounder next year. Let alone for Knies or Peterka.
Obviously most of the teams would want Schaefer.
I could see Chicago, Philly and Buffalo potentially taking Misa over Schaefer.
But I could see Philly and the rest of those eligible for the top pick to take Schaefer.
I think if the Sharks end up with Schaefer, then we have two very solid defense pairs.
Schaefer on one, Dickinson on one.
Mukhmadulin, and enough others to have two very solid 1A / 1B pairs that each play a lot of minutes.
Combine that with all the forwards in our system, and at that point it might be the "go-point".
If we don't get Schaefer, then probably go the asset route.
That would mean Misa or Martone, most likely.
Not sure if there is a top 2026 defenseman to build around.
But 2027 does have DuPont.
Not sure the Sharks would still be a bottom five team with all the prospects by that point.
And really, if we're a contender without Schaefer then go for the bunch of cups.
People continue to forget for an offersheet to be successful the player has to be available and has to sign it, and the opposing team can match. I highly doubt an offer sheet is a reality for the Sharks.
I don't think this is the year to utilize an offer sheet. Knies and Peterka are fine players. Peterka will probably be a solid 60-70 pt player in his career but these aren't high end enough to relinquish 3 highly valuable picks. Grier really needs to spend this summer addressing the defense. Dickinson will be a good player but he's going to require some patience. Sharks are in dire need of a right handed offensive defenseman.
I don’t think Sharks are desperate enough to include 1st round picks to sign middle six wingers.
I would love to hear a discussion of the Granlund trade if possible
On a Stanley Cup contender, Granlund is a 2.5C. He can cover the 2C role, but is an excellent 3C. Blackwood had a lot of good things to say about the Sharks organization.
You'd still choose Michkov over Smitty? Noooooo…. blasphemy Keegan! I'd be willing to bet that Smith ends up with more career points than Michkov. Wait 'til we're actually competitive, the points will PILE UP! We only need 2-3 wingers, and a top defenseman (or maybe two) to COMPLETELY transform our team to a playoff team.
Sheng… wait, what? "Grafs not a great skater still" – he's like one of the fastest skaters on the team! If you see his explosiveness beside Zetts since preseason.. like the wind… reminds me of a guy Matteo Koci i saw in preseason going up the wall in Kamloops, BC. There are levels to the game, where a guy breaks away from other skaters so fast its almost unfair, Graf is one of those bursty guys but it might be that he can't hit stride with his linemates. Him & Ostapchuk (both speedy/bursty) will be excellent together on a line in the future when he settles into a reasonable spot (next year he shouldn't be in the top-six, but he's shown great PK and some offensive talent). Graf's hands might not be as good as Lund's (as you guys said.. I don't know Lund) but man that guy can skate…!!!
Ekblad vrs Dobson vrs Nemec. Which would you sign/ trade for if you were GMMG? Great interview guys. Loo9king forward to the next one.
Granlund is like that ex sheng just can’t get over
Awesome interview!