Joining his childhood buddy Macklin Celebrini in San Jose for the first time, Carson Wetsch is getting ready to carve out his own professional career. The 20-year-old signed his first entry-level contract with the San Jose Sharks in the spring and is expected to start with the San Jose Barracuda this fall.
Wetsch joins the Barracuda after a good season with the Kelowna Rockets in the WHL. He scored 72 points (22 G, 50 A) in 65 games and finished a plus-14. He also had 80 penalty minutes. ...
Sometimes with hockey prospects, you have to be patient, and that’s just what might need to happen with San Jose Sharks prospect Mattias Havelid. Since he was drafted in 2022, the 22-year-old defenseman hasn’t made many waves the way other prospects in our pool have. In fact, he’s dropped down our Top 25 Under 25 list every season since his draft year, going from 13th to 22nd to 23rd and now he’s at 24th. Havelid’s slow decline has some to do with the Sharks adding top-end talent that’s pushed...
2024 was a good draft year for the San Jose Sharks. Headlined by Macklin Celebrini, Sam Dickinson and Igor Chernyshov, the players lower in the draft don’t get talked about a lot. But the 2024 draft is starting to bear some fruit below the headliners, and the first on our list is goaltender Christian Kirsch.
Position: Goaltender Height: 6’4″ Weight: 209 lbs. Age: 20 Date of Birth: June 18, 2006 Draft Year: 2024 (116th overall by the San Jose Sharks) Catches: Left 2026-27 Team: Quinnipiac ...
When the San Jose Sharks set out to repair the worst defense in the Western Conference this summer, they did it in the most expensive way possible. Mike Grier traded…
Evander Kane is still without a contract for next season, and frankly, of late, none of the attention has been on Kane's new deal, and has been solely focused on wild stories that continue to surface online. Former NHLer, and former San Jose Sharks teammate of Kane's, Kurtis Gabriel, continues to make his rounds with wild stories about what Kane was like to play with. However, this time around, nobody saw this one coming. Gabriel was sick of Kane trying to defend himself with his upcoming 'rec...
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Evander Kane is facing fresh criticism from a former San Jose Sharks teammate as questions continue to follow him into free agency. Meanwhile, Calle Järnkrok…
Thank you to everyone who voted in this year’s Fear the Fin Top 25 Sharks Under 25 fan poll. We received well over 100 votes and after looking at the list, I can honestly say there are a lot of good reasons to be hopeful about the present and the future of the San Jose Sharks.
A quick note about our process before I jump into the honorable mentions. While more than 100 people voted, not everyone filled out the entire form. Some people only chose their top ten Sharks. That’s okay. The trou...
Evander Kane doesn't have an NHL contract for next season, and a former teammate's comments this week aren't going to make finding one any easier. Kurtis Gabriel, who played alongside Kane in San Jose during the 2020-21 season, ripped into his former teammate on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast with Sheng Peng . "It's disgusting to me that a player can be talented and do that routinely and still have a job," Gabriel said. "Someone like that kiboshes the whole mentality of the locker room....
At just 20 years old, Macklin Celebrini is a shoo-in to step into the San Jose Sharks captaincy in 2026-27. In his sophomore season, he broke the Sharks single-season franchise…
Airey spent the past three seasons as goaltender at the University of Minnesota.
A few weeks ago, the San Jose Sharks extended Macklin Celebrini, giving him a contract worth $94 million and $18.5 million AAV, starting in 2027-28. Now, Celebrini has dropped a truth bomb about taking the team-friendly deal, according to Max Miller of NHL.com. “That was at the front of my mind throughout the whole negotiation. […]
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Calle Jarnkrok continues to be a free agent and without any one-year deals on his lap to consider, expect to see the versatile veteran forward sign a professional tryout agreement (PTO). Daily Faceoff's Mike Gould recently highlighted Jarnkrok as an under-the-radar type of signing as the offseason winds down, and has linked Jarnkrok to potentially signing a PTO with the San Jose Sharks or Edmonton Oilers. Jarnkrok spent the past four seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and while in the...
It has become an arms race in the Central Division, while the Sharks could take advantage of a stagnant and subpar Pacific.
As part of TheHockeyNews.com's current series ranking the off-seasons of every NHL team, we're focusing today's article on team No. 9 – the San Jose Sharks.
Building an all-time team for each NHL franchise is no easy task. With decades of star players to choose from, narrowing each roster down to just six names creates plenty of difficult decisions. Below, we’ll select one left winger, one center, one right winger, two defensemen, and one goalie for all 32 NHL teams. The […]
Connor McDavid said it: the NHL’s Pacific Division was a pillow fight last year. This hasn’t been a collection of world-beaters in recent times. On paper, the Edmonton Oilers and Vegas Golden Knights should battle it out for top spot, and both are potential Cup contenders. The San Jose Sharks and Anaheim Ducks will likely…
When San Jose Sharks general manager Mike Grier traded William Eklund and Shakir Mukhamadullin and let Mario Ferraro walk in free agency, 23-year-old two-way forward Collin Graf somehow became the…
The Sharks were probably the most fun team in the league that didn’t make the postseason last year. Can they finally get into the playoff picture this year?
Shakir Mukhamadullin discussed his trade to the Edmonton Oilers and detailed a strained relationship with his former team, the San Jose Sharks, in a Russian interview with Sport Express. The 24-year-old defenceman’s ascent to the NHL has been bumpy since being a first-round draft pick in 2020. After the Sharks acquired him from New Jersey…
Welcome to another offseason edition of Around the NHL. Training camps are just around the corner, but we’re still in the final days of summer. Here’s what you need to know about the latest news, rumours and transactions across the league. Sharks will reportedly name Macklin Celebrini captain before opening night It’s been a terrific…
To the surprise of no one, it appears that Macklin Celebrini will be the San Jose Sharks’ next captain. According to San Jose Hockey Now’s Sheng Peng, it’s all but certain that Celebrini will be the newest captain of the California-based team. Drafted first overall in the 2024 NHL draft, Celebrini took a massive step…
Celebrini is set to enter his third year in the NHL with the Sharks, and he’s likely to take on the official role as the team’s top leader.
The San Jose Sharks have played without a captain for more than two years. The “C” has been sitting in a drawer since Logan Couture’s final game in March 2024,…
The 2025-26 NHL season saw plenty of change in the standings. Teams like the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers were surprise playoff teams, while the San Jose Sharks improved by…
Montreal Canadiens news and notes
Nick Suzuki ranks ninth on NHL Network’s top centremen list after being 10th a year ago. [ NHL.com ]
Re-evaluating the Josh Anderson trade. [ The Hockey Writers ]
Around the league and elsewhere
What impact will the San Jose Sharks’ big additions on the blue line have this season? [ NHL.com ]
San Jose’s three 2026 first-rounders lead its prospect pool. [ NHL.com ]
Anze Kopitar is still spending life in ice rinks as he suppor...