Are the San Jose Sharks poised to breakout?

Are the San Jose Sharks poised to breakout?

Maybe not a playoff team coming up this year. That’s probably not, you know, a stretch by anybody’s imagination, but you like the direction that Mike Greer has the San Jose Sharks heading. Why? Yeah. So, I think you want to get I think in a a team with the position like the San Jose Sharks, we’ve seen some teams in the past do this where you you want hungry players, right? You want to get opportunity. So, you’re going to come in here. Jeff Skinner’s getting going to get more of an opportunity probably would get on a deeper team, say in Edmonton. Um, you get an opportunity to come in here. Hey, let’s lead some of these young guys. you go do your thing. Whether it’s Jeff Skinner, whether it’s Nick Ley, you know, Clingberg, or I mean, you go up and down like they could all flip these guys at the deadline. So, not only can you go in there and hey, let’s take that next step, show these young guys how to be pros, let’s keep going, and maybe things just work out good like it does with Tyler Tofoley and and you you’re there longer in San Jose. But if not, and they want to leave and you could flip them for second second round picks, you can get some you can get some draft capital. Like, I think this is their business. It’s a it’s a two-part play. And you know, it’s it’s not to say the two are mutually exclusive either, right? It’s to your it’s to your point, have a great year and you know, maybe there’s an opportunity at the deadline for San Jose and Greer and his group to really uh maximize on the return for that asset. But as much as anything, you know, before you get to that, it’s a developmental play, right? At the end of the day, you’ve got some brilliant young players and they’ve got to be competitive. They’ve got to be supported. they can’t be overwhelmed or developmentally they’ll start to regress. So, I mean I I think you know you could look at two of those transactions. Skinner makes great sense on one level. Um here’s a guy that I mean you go back two years I think his one of his last years in Buffalo. He was an 82 point player just two or three years ago. That’s a guy that can really provide some pop up front and support again these young guys. I look at Reeves in the same vein, right? Brian Reeves. He’s probably not going to play 82 games next year at this stage of his career, but he gives this group credibility and nobody’s going to run the San Jose Sharks out of the rink uh and and the young players that play for these San Jose Sharks. So, it’s a developmental piece. You got to put these kids in a position where they’re going to thrive as they play uh meaningful NHL

NHL Tonight discusses the San Jose Sharks offseason moves and if they are ready for a breakout season.

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