Why the Future is Teal! Trade Deadline – Offseason San Jose Sharks Recap #sjs #sharks #futureisteal
Do you think the San Jose Sharks are just absolute butt cheeks? Or are you a Sharks fan who’s been too busy to keep up with this hellacious off season? Well, we’re here to show you why the future is teal. So, let’s lock in. Before we get to the off season for the Sharks, we got to go all the way back to last season’s trade deadline because the Sharks made some moves that impacted their off season. And first, we’re going to look at the first trade of the trade deadline to get an idea of where the Sharks heads were this off season. In a trade with the Ottawa Senators, the San Jose Shark got leftwing/c center Noah Greor, who hasn’t really had a standout season in his career yet. Originally drafted in the fourth round by the Shark in 2016. Greor was traded to the Maple Leafs and then the Senators, and now he’s finally back with the Shark. While not being a gifted scorer, he is a big hitter, averaging 11 hits per game the last two seasons. This will help with the defensive struggles in San Jose. They also got center Zack Austin Pachchuk. Same story as Noah Greor. Not a great shooter, but averaged 12.28 hits per game as a center, which is crazy. Picking up these aggressive bottom liners will keep opponents from scoring on a power play or even during normal 5v5. Finally, in this trade alone, they also received a 2025 second round pick. But what did the Sharks give up to Ottawa to get two players and a second round pick? Well, first they gave up left wing Fabian Zedland, who was a decent scorer, picking up 24 goals and 20 assists in 82 games in the 23-24 season. Zetherland then regressed last season, scoring only 19 goals and 22 assists. For a 25year-old making 4.3 million per year, I think the Canadians got someone who can add scoring, but maybe not at the best price as he makes more or a comparable amount to better players like, I don’t know, New York Rangers left wing Will Coulie or new Seattle Kraken left wing Mason Marchman. San Jose also gave up center Tristan Robbins, who is mainly a AHL player with not much NHL sample size to truly scout his true pro performance. So, I’m not going to do him any disjustice. And finally, they also gave Ottawa third 2025 fourth round pick. The next trade San Jose made was with the Stanley Cup champions, the Florida Panthers. They gave Florida goalie Vet Vanisek for center Patrick Guile. Guiles is another young two-way forward that can add to their defense when their scoring lines aren’t in. His size hopes in this at 6’5, 218 lbs. Jesus, he can just truck people out on the ice looking like Derrick Henry out there. This is evident when we look at his eight hits per game on average. The Tech was headed to free agency after the season where he did end up on the Utah Mammoth. So, San Jose got a good deal trading a rental piece for center Patrick Gile. If he can improve enough to be in the NHL, he could make a good bottom line center, not for scoring, but for his size and physicality. In a smaller trade, San Jose also acquired a 2025 fourth round pick from Columbus for Luke Counan, a 28-year-old center that only put up 18 points in 63 games with San Jose last season. And the final trade we’re going to talk about from the trade deadline is the biggest because I saved the best for last. San Jose sent Jake Walman to Edmonson for a conditional 2026 first round pick and Carl Berglin. That first round pick is top 12 protected. The Oilers would then have to give up their 2027 pick instead. I think moving on from Jake Wman is smart. The media says he’s a good offensive defenseman, but personally, I don’t think he is all that great. Wman is top 26 among defenseman in the NHL for assist with 33 last season and top 56 amongst defenseman in goals with seven last season. Wman is 29 years old and this should have been his best season and we only expect more decline out of his scoring. He isn’t a very physical defender either with an average of only two hits a game last season. The only good thing I have to say about WMAN is that he averaged six to seven blocks per game in the last two seasons. I think the first rounder for next year was good enough and so did San Jose because Carl Berglin is a 25-year-old AHL player. Now, let’s get into the portion of the actual off season that I know all Shark fans know about, and if you’re a Sharks hater, you probably have no clue about, and that’s the NHL draft. Now, we’re going to talk about all the epic moves San Jose made in the draft. Starting with, of course, the number two overall pick, center, Michael Misa, with almost a goal a game in the OHL and a total of 134 points. The only other person to score this many points in the OHL in the modern age is current Toronto Maple Leaf John Tover. Misa is going to be a big threat in the NHL once he grows a little more. Misa is 6’1 and 183 lbs. So, he still has room to develop muscle, which will increase his shot power and his skating ability. So, if he is starting in the NHL this year, the Sharks can grow quicker due to playing with much bigger and talented players than he did in the OHL. This will improve his ice vision and get him adapted to the new increased level of play early as well getting him used to that faster game speed by seeing dudes like Conor McDavid every night. With the Sharks second first round pick, they decided to select the second goalie off the board, but he was supposed to be the first one, and that’s Joshua Ravensburgen. He was selected 30th overall by the Sharks in this year’s draft. Ravensburgen is tall and agile at 6’5. He can cover the net and move to where he isn’t covering quickly. Ravensburg and combine results were impressive and exactly what you want to hear for a goalie. So, let’s take a look. Ravensburgen scored 18th overall out of all combine participants. That means left wings, defensemen, centers, right wings, not just goalies in the horizontal jump and the vertical jump test. This shows us he is going to be fast in the crease which will lead to more save. Ravensburgen also had the 11th highest wingspan at the combine with a 79 and a/4 in wingspan. This again is going to help keep the puck out of the net because his butterfly should cover the net especially at 6’5. Ravensburgen was projected to be the first goalie like I said to go in the draft. However, Peter Andreanov, sorry I’m not Russian. I don’t know how to say that. I tried my best. Andrea Oak was drafted by Columbus at number 20. Ravensburg has been in the WHL since 2023. In the 23-24 season, he played 38 games, allowing 2.46 goals on average with a 91% save rate. In 2425, he played 51 games with three goals allowed per game with a 90% save rate. In the playoffs, in 24-25, he allowed 3.6 goals with a 89.6% save rate. He also played a whole game in the prospects challenge and allowed one goal, which is a 93.8% save rate. Ravensburg definitely has the stats and the talent and the size to be a great goalender. We will see what he does next and watch him as he grows in the AHL whenever he makes that next step up. At 33rd overall, San Jose selected Wong Haosi. He’s a Chinese-b born defenseman. He was taken with the first pick of the second round. He’s 6’6, 223 lbs. The Sharks are again showing they’re committed to fixing their defensive trouble. Last season, they allowed the most goals per game at 3.78 goals per game, doubling down on the young defenseman who is already huge for 17 years old. Plus, adding the young firstrounder goalie, the Sharks are really making sure they keep the puck out of the net in the future. Finally, we’ll talk about second round pick Cole McKenna. He joined the US NTDP team this year, which essentially means he’ll play against older US Hockey League players, NCAA teams, and occasionally international games to make it more difficult. Cole played 60 games and scored 27 goals with 34 assists for 61 points. Hopefully, McKenna will grow into a good second line scorer or who knows, maybe front line in his prime year. So, the draft is over and the Sharks are still kind of looking a little aquamarine, but they have a ton of offseason trades and signings left to create chaos in the NHL and show everyone that the future is teal. And we’re going to get started with how San Jose traded a 2028 third round pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins for backup goalender Alex Nadelkovich. I think 29year-old Alex, I’m not saying his last name again, is a solid pickup for a future third rounder as a backup goalie for San Jose after Romanov and King George left the team in free agency this season. But that was only the first trade the Sharks made this all season as they traded 23-year-old forward Thomas Bordello to New Jersey for 26-year-old forward Shane Bowers, another AHL center who needs some work to be effective in the NHL. Thomas is a decent AHL scorer, but we need to see the same production in the NHL. Personally, I would have kept Thomas if I was San Jose because he did outscore Bowers in the AHL last year, but they’re both young AHL players, so we won’t spend too long on them. Now, we’re going to get into the free agency signings of the Sharks made, starting with 33year-old defenseman John Cllingberg, who signed to a one-year $4 million contract. Cleanberg will make a good veteran bottom defenseman who might score on the side besides just playing defense. He’s been regressive for the last three years now. He had his best season in 2017 18 season. But in 201819 he started his fall off. He’s gone from playing all 82 games and scoring 67 points to last season only playing 11 games and picking up only four points in those 11 games. Cleanberg isn’t a very good defenseman either. For the last two seasons, he’s had below average defensive stats, but maybe we’ll see him return to glory on the Sharks like other veterans have in the recent past. San Jose then went on to sign the Chicago Blackhawks legend, at least for me on NHL 25, playing next to Connor Bedard, center Philip Kersev, to a one-year $1.2 million deal. He’s a decent young center at only 25 years old. Last year, he didn’t do so well, though, only scoring seven goals and seven assists in 51 games. But he has been shooting 13% and 14.1% the last two seasons with the Blackhawks, which is important because his career average shooting percentage is only 10.7%. So, it’s showing growth in his game. He might have a little more time on ice this year, which will allow him to possibly have a bounceback season in his first year and hopefully not his only year with the San Jose Sharks. After signing the Blackhawks goat, they went on and signed another center, Adam Goddette. Two years, 4 million, 2 million a year. That’s a huge pickup here cuz last season he played 81 games, got 19 goals and seven assists. I know it doesn’t sound too impressive, but he shot 21.1%. What? That’s some smart shot taking and shows some real potential to have a prime season going into his age 28 29 season. So, you thought that was a big signing cuz this man shot 21%, right? Well, I think this is bigger signing cuz they also signed Edmonton’s former leftwing Jeff Skinner to a one-year $3 million deal. played in 72 games, scored 16 goals with 13 assists, which is good for 29 points. He was also playing third line minutes, so not many scoring opportunities. Plus, he only shot 11.1%. But why do I think this is a huge signing for San Jose? They just signed not only a veteran, but a veteran who knows how and what to do to get to the Stanley Cup. He’ll be in San Jose teaching Michael Misa, William Ecklan, Will Smith, and Celabbrini how to and what to do to get to the Stanley Cup finals. And most of all, how to be a winner in the NHL. And finally, to conclude the signings, we’re finishing with the biggest, the San Jose Sharks extended leftwing William Ecklan to a three-year $16.8 million deal, which is 5.6 6 million a year on average. Ekkan only played 77 games last season. I know only him is five games. Oh my god. Due to a wrist injury, but still managed to score 17 goals and 41 assists, which is 58 points. He’s still only 22 years old, and his production this early will yield good results for the front line in the future. Since we’re talking about Ekkan, it’s only right that we look at the rest of their young future stars that make the Sharks probably a playoff team one day. Return of the Mack. Celabbrini will be the center of the dynasty. Drafted number one overall by San Jose in the 2024 draft. Celabbrini or the Mack, we’re starting that TM, that’s ours, is possibly the only player in the league right now that could steal Conor Bedar spotlight in the league as a best young forward. the Max’s first season in the NHL last year. He absolutely crushed it for his age, scoring 25 goals and 38 assists in only 70 games. For reference, the GOAT Bedard’s first season in the NHL, he scored 22 goals and 39 assists in 68 games with similar shooting percentage. The Mack did get a lot of shots off this season at 236, which ranked 26th in the league in shot attempt. Cabbrini shooting percentage was not too impressive though at only 10.6%. But if he can improve his shot in the coming years, then he’s going to be a very dangerous score. Now we get to Will Smith. Not the one that smacked Chris Rock and not the one that plays on the Dodgers. It’s another Will Smith. San Jose’s Will Smith. He was drafted fourth overall in the 2023 draft. He also made his debut in the NHL last year at only 19 years old. Big Willie Style came out swinging, scoring 18 goals and picking up 27 assists in 74 games. He actually shot better than Celibbrini at 14.2%. That makes it even more likely that Will Smith will eventually take up that rightwing position as a scorer. Now, the Sharks have added another top four pick from the draft. Michael Misa, the number two overall pick this year that we already told you about. Misa should bring that second line leadership with good vision on the rush and his own scoring potential. We will have to wait to see how Misa performs in the NHL to further predict this young evolving offense aka watch out Edmonton. So, if you’re a San Jose fan and you’re wondering why all these other people are saying your team is butt cheeks and you just don’t get it cuz you love Big Willie Style, the MAC, and Ekkan, and you’re like, “We got the swaggiest uniform in all of the NHL.” Let’s go through last season and give you an idea why everyone says your team is Cheeks. San Jose had a very rocky season, no pun intended, as they really didn’t have any defense or scoring on the bottom lines, as well as defense being constantly rotated and goalies being an even harder thing to keep consistent as they had five different goalies on the roster this year. We can definitely see that they made an effort to plug these holes in defense and goalie with the big four as they sign further bottom lines in that goalie trade we told you about earlier. They have their own first round picks in 2026 and 2027 while also having Edmonton’s first rounder in 2026 from the Wman trade. Remember they also have the ABS 2026 second rounder from the King George trade. So, we could use them to use all these draft picks as trade value to build their dream team now around these young studs. Or possibly, like we talked about last time in our Islanders video, a contender for the first overall pick to pick up Gavin McKenna. Could you imagine McKenna with these guys? Jesus Christ. We love to see San Jose moving so many pieces around right now to make their defense better while also adding a couple more young offensive pieces to be a more competitive team than they were last year when the previous young talent they added to the team. Plus, the young talent and veteran leadership they picked up this off season is going to make serious improvements to this roster. We’re waiting to see what the Sharks plan to do with the right-wing position. So far, they don’t have a young star to play right wing alongside Ecklan and Celibbrini. Their plan, like we talked about earlier, is most likely gonna be move Will Smith to fill that right-wing position. He’s played right wing before and I think with the scoring potential already, he would make a perfect fit for this top line. Tyler DeFooly was playing right wing last year and scored the most goals on the team with 30 of them. The fully has been shining on the Sharks and will likely play right wing again this year, at least to start the season. If Will Smith can come out and out produce to fully, he will likely take over that role. Which I would say is better soon than never. Which of San Jose’s young forwards do you think will be the biggest star? We all know they’re going to be stars, but who’s going to be the biggest star? Do you think that any of them won’t work out? Will one of them be a bust? Let us know in the comments below. And also, we had a debate during the making of this video. Who has the most swag in their jerseys? Is it the San Jose Sharks or the Utah Mammoth? Let me know in the comments below who you think has the best logo, colorway, and jersey. And remember, the future is teal. And I want to let you know, we will be doing a full outlook on the NHL season for every team once the rosters are officially announced. Since we have to wait a little longer for that, we will be looking at our favorite teams from this off season. But like we did today with San Jose, let us know what team you want to see next. and keep your eyes peeled on those fantasy ranks for football. I got off to a late start, but I promise you during the season we will have our week to week projections ready for you before Thursday Night Football every week. Until next time.
Why the Future is Teal! Trade Deadline – Offseason San Jose Sharks Recap #sjs #sharks #futureisteal
Today we are taking a look at the San Jose Sharks trades from the trade deadline in March until now. We also take a look at the crazy draft they had in 2025. Not to mention more offseason trades and signings. We also give you Shark’s fans a taste of what the future of your team and organization is going to look like after a rough few years.
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I just hope we dont trade Ravenburg, most goalies we trade end up being good in other teams.