would trade 14 and 33 in a heartbeat for Zeev Buium

We're a bit under the cap floor. LOL

I'm just being a smart ass.

I have been hearing a lot of Sharks fans wanting Nabokov in the Mid Second Round. You guys could end up with a Franchise goaltender also

Doesn't look very good tbh.
I hope half these forwards work out.
Defense is bad. Goaltending is worse.

What an odd take. The Sharks prospect pool was a consensus top 5 group, and they're about to add the 1OA + another mid 1st to it. They have a far better prospect group than almost any other NHL team at this point.

Missing Cagnoni who I honestly think has the highest ceiling of any Sharks d-man prospect. including Yakemchuk

Also, Pohlkamp I'm going to call it now will be a 5'10" version of Pesce. He looks like a fantastic 2-way d-man.

Also don't sleep on Rimashevsky. Had a really solid year in the KHL as a draft +1. 6'2" sniper right wing. There's not a lot of footage obviously but what I have seen, he looks awesome

Not everyone works out the way they're drafted/projected is my point.
Hence why I said I'd be happy with half of these guys working out.

The defense is okay. I see a lot of 3/4/5/6 guys. Maybe 1 #2 guy. No #1's currently.

The goalies are awful, but honestly that whole category really seems to be changing. Even the top 5 goalies aren't like the top 5 goalies from a decade ago.

The one good thing Grier has done is target a LOT of 200 foot guys.
In fact, if Eiserman drops to that mid-round I bet you he looks elsewhere.

Forgot about Pohl!

I am also on the Pohlkamp train! Excited to see what he does at Denver this year.

Dude was 205 lbs at draft day. He's a tank lol

But that's the case with every prospect group. When you say it doesn't look good, it objectively does compared to almost any other team in the league (except maybe the Sabres/Wings/Jackets). For the relatively short time that they have been rebuilding, San Jose has done an incredible job acquiring high tier assets. They jumped from 17th to 4th in rankings last year, and will almost certainly go to 1st or 2nd this year.

I don't disagree that they secured rights to some potentially great/good players. Or that they've revamped pretty quick (though other teams have now vacated those spots).

I'm just trying to say "we'll see". I'm hesitant to get excited because it's so far away.

Honestly I don't even think it's that far away. Smith, Celebrini, Musty, Bords, Gushchin, Shakir, Thompson and Graf are all guys who could legitimately compete for a full time NHL spot this next year. And then Cardwell, Robins, Halttunen, Bystedt, Lund, Pohlkamp, Cagnoni, Edstrom, Pulli could be in that spot in a year, some of those guys with an outside chance to get a shot THIS year.

The next couple years will be fun to see a lot of new guys get shots in the show

Just because they get a spot doesn't mean they'll perform at the level we need/want.

I love watching the young guys play. I'm one of the weirdos at those preseason games.

Zero chance anyone we draft this year past Celebrini earns an NHL spot next season.

agree with you on defense prospects, but I'm pretty excited about SJ's scoring ability in the not so distant future.
Ideally SJ would make a deal to ensure they get in on some of the great defensive prospects this draft and try to resolve via UFAs in the meanwhile

goaltending is a tricky one and there might be some good surprises, like cooley. There has already been disappointments with makiniemi and chrona

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. These guys who are killing it at the lower levels are going to get NHL time in the next couple years. Not all will hit, but it'll be a lot of fun.

Also random rant, but the fact that they can't stream every preseason game in this day and age is crazy.

I point this out frequently, but I give the Athletic's prospect pool rankings a major asterisk. The biggest thing for the Sharks is they've had very few prospects graduate. Teams like Chicago had Bedard, Korchinski, and Vlasic graduate while the Sharks only lost Eklund. That's not to downplay the massive growth of the Sharks' pool, I just think I'd rate them below a few more teams.

They just seem to make sports harder and harder to access. Advertising revenue.

I don't even think SJS is top 10 in terms of pool.
Maybe after this draft.

There are good dmen mid 1st and early 2nd.

I mean that's just objectively untrue. No scout would agree with this

Probably why I'm not a scout.