Le directeur général Mike Grier donne systématiquement la priorité au talent plutôt qu’au consensus lors du repêchage. La sélection l’année dernière de Joshua Ravensbergen à 25 ans en a surpris plus d’un, mais cela a prouvé son engagement à choisir le meilleur joueur disponible. Attendez-vous à une approche similaire au choix 9. Rejoignez le Locked on Sharks All-Access Everyday Club pour un contenu spécial destiné aux fans les plus inconditionnels des Sharks de San Jose : https://lockedonsharks.supercast.com/ Suivez et abonnez-vous sur toutes les plateformes de podcast… 🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-sharks/ Locked On NHL League-Wide : Chaque équipe, fantasy, espoirs et plus 🎧 https://linktr.ee/LockedOnNHL #NHL #Sharks #SanJoseSharks
@Sharks de San José
3 Comments
Lets Hope the Sharks get lucky and move up in the draft. Even at 5, they should be able to land one of Verhoeff, Reid or Carels.
I’ll be happy with Daxon Rudolph if he makes it to 9
I don’t know why you’re mentioning ravensbergen as evidence of this being a good strategy, that pick very well could look like a mistake.
It also wasn’t bpa. Pretty much every single analyst had Blake fiddler and Henry brzustevic above ravensbergen. Cullen potter was above him too.
They wanted a goalie for whatever reason, or at least saw it as a big enough need to grab one there.
The sharks absolutely need dmen, and not drafting them here would be a massive mistake. Trying to weigh whether some dman is one or two spots below a forward and passing because the forward is ranked higher doesn’t do a very good job of analyzing value and I suspect Grier is more intelligent than that. Sometimes you get a steal and it makes sense, or your team is so bad that it doesn’t matter, but there is a reason the going consensus for most team building is to weight need and fit.
The argument that they could just develop the forward and trade them for a dman is a terrible strategy because as you gain a glut in one position, it becomes more difficult to develop them. We may even see that with ravensbergen similar to the sharks inability to really utilize kiprusoff back in the day. But defenseman that develop well tend to have a premium on them, and it’s much more difficult to convince teams to give them up. There is usually a premium on young good dmen.
And sharks need good dmen desperately.