The San Jose Sharks have a killer group of young forwards that have made them the deepest prospect pool in the NHL. With Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, Michael Misa, Quentin Musty, Kasper Halttunen, Collin Graf, Filip Bystedt and more, the Sharks are the envy of many an NHL general manager. In the net, Yaroslav Askarov appears to be the goaltender of the future with Joshua Ravensbergen and Christian Kirsch there to catch him if he falls.
What Team Teal does not have is a top-of-the-line d...
Since coming to San Jose to helm the Sharks, General Manager Mike Grier has never wavered from his promise of drafting the best player available (BPA). He’s always said that he will draft the BPA and no matter what the noise around him is, he’s stuck to that promise. It happened last season when the Sharks selected Michael Misa despite having a need for a defenseman and even more so when, with the 30th overall pick, the team selected goaltender Joshua Ravensbergen because he was next up on the...
From Olympic Gold medalist to first-round draft pick, Laila Edwards is the newest member of PWHL San Jose. The defender headlined the first-ever draft class for PWHL San Jose, bringing the total number of players for San Jose’s team to 16.
A few days ago, the rumors started swirling that Edwards might fall to fourth overall because PWHL Las Vegas was interested in taking a center with the third pick in the draft. Those rumors were confirmed when the team selected Tessa Janecke at number t...
San Jose Sharks General Manager Mike Grier is bringing in reinforcements to help address one of the team’s biggest offseason needs: defense. Today, the Sharks announced that it traded the 20th overall pick in the upcoming NHL Entry Draft to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for the rights to Michael Kesselring and the 27th overall pick in the draft.
Kesselring is the key piece in this deal. The 26-year-old is a pending restricted free agent who doesn’t have a contract. However, the Sharks no...
After years of playing backup to All-Star goaltender Juuse Saros on the Nashville Predators, Yaroslav Askarov finally had the opportunity to be the top dog this past season. Two years ago, when the San Jose Sharks traded for Askarov, the team told the young netminder the plan. He’d get his chance. The then-23-year-old (he turned 24 yesterday) got it this season. Supported by capable backup Alex Nedeljkovic, the net belonged to the young rookie and, as expected, the season was filled with some ...
When Barclay Goodrow entered the offseason after the Sharks’ dismal ending to the 2024-25 season, he talked about getting healthy. For too many seasons in a row, he had spent April, May and sometimes even June battling in the postseason despite injuries, bumps and bruises. He wanted last summer to be different. With the Sharks not even close to sniffing the playoffs, he knew he finally had the opportunity to spend some time truly healing.
When he returned to training camp in the fall, the...
It’s been a busy few days for PWHL San Jose as the team locked up five more players in the next phase of the expansion process, signing five more free agents to bring the total roster count to ten. That’s on top of learning today that the team will pick fourth overall in the upcoming PWHL draft on June 17. For PWHL San Jose fans, it’s time to get excited.
Who could PWHL San Jose draft with the fourth overall pick?
For the first ten players, San Jose worked hard to lock down defensive...
When the San Jose Sharks signed Alex Wennberg on the first day of free agency in 2024, the team was hoping the then-29-year-old center might be able to help usher in a new era of Sharks hockey. It honestly could not have gone any better. What the Sharks got out of Wennberg in these last two years has been a leader on and off the ice. The forward has shown young players like Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith and Collin Graf how to play the right way. He and his family have been pillars in the San J...
I’m out of the country and therefore almost entirely out of commission for the first couple weeks of June and so while I’ve done my best to keep with what San Jose’s new PWHL team has done, it’s been a lot of trying to get connection to Twitter and email just to see what’s going on. And boy, is there a lot going on. While San Jose wasn’t the first expansion team to the punch when it came to signing players, it was one of the first teams to add a majority of its five expansion players. In fact,...
The San Jose Sharks went into the 2025-26 season with one of the deeper center pools in the league. With Macklin Celebrini, Alex Wennberg, Michael Misa and Ty Dellandrea down the middle, along with players like Will Smith and Adam Gaudette able to play the center role, the team already had NHL-level centers to spare. Dellandrea was finally slotted into a role that seemed to fit where he needed to play in the NHL, a fourth-line center with the ability to move up the lineup if injuries required ...
Known for his booming hits and ability to move the puck, Dmitry Orlov was an exciting addition to the San Jose Sharks’ roster last offseason. On a defense corps that was the worst in the NHL in the 2024-25 season, Orlov was expected to help the team take the next step in its development. Not only was the Russian defenseman expected to help the Sharks lock things down on defense, but he was also expected to move the puck up to the young, dynamic forwards and help fuel the offense.
Orlov’s ...
The San Jose Sharks’ prospect pool is loaded, but a lot of eyes have been on young Sam Dickinson. The 11th overall pick in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft excelled when he returned to juniors after the draft, setting records and showing great promise as an offensive defenseman. The big question for Sharks fans heading into last summer was where the rookie would play in the 2025-26 season. Since the new collective bargaining agreement has not gone into effect yet, the Sharks needed to decide if the ra...
When the San Jose Sharks traded a 2025 fifth-round draft pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Vincent Desharnais in March of last year, there wasn’t much to the deal. The idea was that the Sharks had acquired a depth 6/7 defenseman who would fill in when there was an injury. For a fifth-round pick far, far in the future, it wasn’t a hefty price to pay. So it was a surprise when Desharnais proved, midway through the season, to be one of the more reliable and steadfast defensemen within the Shark...
The San Jose Sharks added Nick Leddy to the roster on July 3 when the team claimed the defenseman off waivers. The St. Louis Blues needed to clear cap space, so the Blues waived the defenseman rather than buy him out. Sharks General Manager Mike Grier needed to add to the Sharks’ blueline, and Leddy was an easy addition given that he could play on the right side and he wasn’t going to cost the team anything in terms of prospects or draft picks. After an off-the-record discussion with the veter...
Fear the Fin has started running through the player reviews, but we thought we would take a brief pause to take a deeper look at defenseman John Klingberg and who could replace him as many San Jose Sharks fans have called for at the end of this season. Klingberg was good for the Sharks … at times. At other times … well … fans had concerns. Many have hoped that they don’t see him back in teal again.
However, that doesn’t solve the Sharks’ defensive problem. As of this writing (and I’ll adm...
When the 2025-26 season started, General Manager Mike Grier knew that he needed to add a veteran defenseman who could move the puck and feed his group of dynamic young forwards. He also knew that the high-end defensive free agents weren’t going to run to San Jose, a team that is still a few years away from true contention. So the general manager had to get creative. He had to make offers to second-tier defensemen and players with the hopes that they might pan out in the end. Which is how the S...
Will Smith entered his sophomore season with the San Jose Sharks with high hopes. The then-20-year-old put in the work over the summer, spending time on the ice with Macklin Celebrini and working out with some of the top names in the league, including Nathan MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby. Smith also won a gold medal with the U.S. Men’s National team last summer, registering seven assists in ten games. He came into the 2025-26 season in better shape and better prepared to play among the best in t...
San Jose has a PWHL team, but it still needs players to take to the ice. Some of those players will be selected in the PWHL Draft on June 17. But there will also be players selected before the draft. These are the players who are currently in the PWHL and might be willing to switch to another team. That’s what’s happening starting on June 1, when the Preliminary Player Negotiation Period opens at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET.
The expansion process is set to happen in six phases, and it happens mo...
The PWHL San Jose has named the first member of its front office. The league announced today that Troy Ryan will serve as both the general manager and head coach of the new expansion team. This is the first time ever that the league has had someone serve in a dual capacity. Ryan has a history with the PWHL, most recently serving as the head coach of the Toronto Sceptres for the first three seasons of the league. In the league’s press release, he said he’s ready to build something special in Sa...
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It’s official! The PWHL will play in San Jose next season. In a press conference this afternoon, officials from the Professional Women’s Hockey League were joined on stage by San Jose soccer legend Brandi Chastain and Bay Area skating legend Kristi Yamaguchi to make the announcement. While there are a lot of details to be ironed out before the season starts in December, there are some things that PWHL Executive Vice President of Business Operations Amy Scheer can promise.
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The San Jose Sharks are officially in the offseason and that means there’s some business to take care of. The front office has a large group of unrestricted and restricted free agents to decide on over the next month or two, with the ultimate goal of building a team that can win a Stanley Cup. It’s pretty clear that this season, the Sharks took a major step forward in the team’s efforts towards that goal, so now, it’s about figuring out how to build on that.
Some of it will include bringi...
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With the San Jose Sharks winning the second overall pick in the NHL draft lottery, the team is in the enviable position of getting another potential forward to play alongside Macklin Celebrini and creating a top six that will be the envy of the NHL. It could become the most powerful young core in the NHL with Celebrini, Will Smith, Michael Misa, Igor Chernyshov, William Eklund and whichever young player the team drafts. There is no doubt that this is something that’s very tempting.
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For all the talk of a potential stop in the playoffs for the San Jose Sharks this season, the team found itself back where it was last May 5, watching a bunch of little balls bounce around and hoping that those balls might bounce San Jose’s way. The Sharks returned to the draft lottery once again today, albeit, with worse odds than last year. When all was said and done, San Jose somehow pulled off a miracle, and Cinco de Mayo was once again a lucky day for the Sharks. For the second year in a ...
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The San Jose Sharks wrap up the season with the final chapter of this year’s West Side Story, facing off with the Winnipeg Jets. The Sharks announced today that prospect Eric Pohlkamp has signed his entry-level deal , but don’t expect the rookie to play tonight; his contract doesn’t take effect until next season.
While Pohlkamp won’t play, John Klingberg will. The defenseman is expected to start in his 700th game tonight, a professional milestone that may or may not wrap up his career in ...
The San Jose Sharks’ long-awaited right-shot defenseman Eric Pohlkamp has officially gone pro. The Sharks announced today that Pohlkamp has signed his entry-level contract, a two-year deal that takes effect in the 2026-27 season.
It's official. 🔏 pic.twitter.com/ofPZwqmR7l — San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) April 16, 2026
According to Puckpedia , the deal has a $1.5 million AAV, with a base salary of $922,500 the first season and $967,500 the second season if he plays in th...