The San Jose Sharks have announced their opening night roster!
We react to the roster on this episode of the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast.
But before we deep dive the San Jose Sharks’ roster, we talk about the big Quentin Musty news. (01:33)
Musty has requested a trade from the Sudbury Wolves…we speculate as to why.
And now, our thoughts about the San Jose Sharks’ opening night roster! (10:30)
We touch on pretty much every forward, first waxing poetic on Danil Gushchin busting his way onto the roster.
We talk possible No. 1 center Macklin Celebrini and what we expect from Will Smith. (32:52)
Sheng defends Luke Kunin and the Sharks’ cohort of high-compete forwards once again. (50:27)
We also touch on the forward prospects who didn’t make it this time like Ethan Cardwell and Collin Graf. (1:13:46)
On defense, we focus on Henry Thrun and Jake Walman. (1:19:10)
What about Luca Cagnoni and Jack Thompson? (1:28:47)
Finally, goaltending!
We have a sleeper pick for San Jose Sharks’ opening night starter.
What about Yaroslav Askarov? (1:43:35)
Thanks for listening!
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this is season is the break of dawn after the long night
Last season we were hunkered down in Helm's Deep, besieged by every team in the NHL. But we looked to the east at dawn of draft day and there we saw Joe Thornton, standing at the top of that hill with Macklin Celebrini and heard Grier giving a monotone speech "NOW FOR WRATH AND FOR RUIN AND THE TEAL DAWN"
It will be interesting how Mitchkov does in Philly. How will Will Smith compare to him. I think the Sharks and orher teams blew it by not taking Mitchkov. Smith and Mitchkov are both starting in the NHL at the same time.
Guschin led the NHL preseason for all 32 teams. In a preseason meritocracy, he'd be picked over every Sharks player, so that's not a very helpful criteria. Guschin looked way way better than Zetterlund in preseason, for example. Zetterlund really struggled in preseason (bad passes, not skating hard/gliding, not physical, not getting chances, not driving play, slow to react defensively, etc), and nobody is talking about that. Will Smith looked better and better each preseason game, creating more chances every game, despite not having impressive line mates. He started out his college career a little bit slow and then got better and better every game, more and more comfortable, to where he dominated in the second half of the season. Same thing likely here. But, Will Smith is already better than the majority of the Sharks players. They can't send him down.
Guschin! That is the best news! Well deserved, he should be in top-9 line
Thanks guys for putting out the content over the summer. I listend pretty much everthing. Here we go. Let's go sharks🦈
best part of my week!
If Mitchkov did not want to come to San Jose then its true, why draft him. Maybe its closer to Russia to play for an East Coast team, unless he came from a village in far eastern Russia.