San Jose Sharks Prospect Pyramid 2025

San Jose Sharks Prospect Pyramid 2025

Now, the San Jose Sharks are almost a meme at this point. They are probably the vibesiest team in the National Hockey League right now. Just a really fun group of kids that just seem to be having a lot of fun. And hopefully, this is the beginning of them getting themselves out of the basement. But they have drafted a lot. They have one of the biggest pipelines in the entire National Hockey League. And through it all, they’ve ended up with some good players. So, let’s take a look at who exactly is in their future. First up, we are looking at Michael Misa. I mean, he is a franchise level player to me. I think this is a guy who will just make anyone he plays with look better. He is a good player on both sides of the puck. One of the smartest young players I have seen in the last few years. Really, really dedicated to his craft. He knows how to play this game really, really effectively. He’s a player who definitely needs to have some good pace in his game to make sure things work the way he wants them to work. He’s a guy that can adapt to pretty much anything going on around him. And I just love this guy. We’ve talked about him to death on this channel over the last year, but at the end of the day, a really, really important player here for the future of this team. Adds to an absolutely loaded group of forwards up front that are just offensively talented, and I think he brings a two-way energy that I think they kind of need a little bit more of, and I’ll be very excited to see him on the same team as Mlin Celibbrini for the next whatever many years it’ll be. There’s one player in the core category here, and that’s Sam Dickinson. Now, Sam Dickinson is a player that I’ve had some doubts about, but it is undoubtedly true that this is a player that will be in the NHL. Have a lot of offensive ability. He gained a little bit more confidence, I think, with the puck this season, carrying it a little bit more, pinching up from the blue line a little bit more, but his defensive game also grew pretty well, too. He was a little bit more engaged, a little bit better with his stick checks, a little bit better with his gap management. And my big issues with him when he was a draft eligible are still kind of there, but he did take a step this year. here and I have no doubt that he’s going to be an NHL player. There’s just so many offensive tools there. There’s a wicked shot from the point. A really really good sense for offensive zone playmaking and at the very least we might be looking at one of these guys like a Noah Hannifan type player where there’s just a lot of offensive tools that you really really like and you just have to live with maybe some of the downsides. But I mean Noah Hannifan has paid a lot of money to do a lot of things really well. Down in the depth category, there’s a lot of names in here. Joshua Ravensburgen is a goalender. I think has a really good shot of being an NHLer. Luca Kegyone cracked the NHL roster this year. Again, I think the ceiling on his game is going to need to be really, really high in order to make it work because he does have some defensive lapses and issues that could be big issues. But otherwise in this group, Igor Cherishov, Cole McKini, Cam Lund, Casper Haltonin might be a good depth guy. Philip Beastad, I love Colin Graph and what he brings to the game and I thought he had a really, really good rookie proseason last year. I think all of these guys very easily could slot into the lineup doing something. I thought Cam Lund looked pretty decent in his little stint with the team last season. I think Cole McKini, while the ceiling on his game isn’t amazing, I feel like there’s a pretty solid shot of him being a bottom six center for this team one day. Igor Chernob was awesome and a middle six, second line complimentary scoring guy. He worked really well with Michael Nissa already, so there’s an easy experiment you could play around with. There’s just a lot of toys to play around with here that I think all could very well be nice periphery parts of this team moving forward in different roles. Even when you look at the may category though, there are a lot of really interesting players in here. I’ve downgraded Quinton Musty down here because I think there’s a huge amount of upside in his game. But watching him with Sudbury this year, the points are great, the scoring is great, but there are definitely still holes in his game. He really comes and goes with his engagement off the puck. He really comes and goes with what I believe is a bit of a focus issue while on the puck. He can just kind of make some plays that aren’t going to go anywhere or take on too much risk for very little reason and find his way out of it sometimes, but I don’t feel like that’s going to happen at higher levels, but I’ll be interested to see what he can do in the pro levels. I downgraded Matias Havid down here as well. I just don’t know if he has more than a good SHL player in him anymore. I love the skating ability though. the offensive abilities are definitely there even though he only had a point in the SHL this year. I don’t know. I just don’t know if it’s going to be enough for an NHL level player. And that was always the doubt with him because the skating ability and the offensive ability at the junior level was always there. But the defensive side of the game is always really really important especially for smaller guys. And I’m not sure it’s a case of a team just not playing him because he’s small. It’s I think a more matter of the physical side of the game at the SHL level right now still being a big barrier. And we’re getting towards the end of his runway here. Leo Selene Wenius is in here. He had a pretty solid season in the SHL and he seems totally solid. Carson Wetch I thought had a pretty good year this season. He scored 33 goals, but just a good two-way presence for the Calgary Hitman this year. Eric PCamp had a phenomenal season again with the University of Denver. I think there is a chance that he’s an NHL player, but I’m not exactly sure what his role is going to be outside of the offensive zone, but a good player nonetheless. And hey, I’ve been a big fan of him since he was a firsttime draft eligible and he’s come miles in his game since he was 17 years old. So I have all the hope in the world for him, but I still think that he’s a maybe. Simon Wang, Brendan, Brendan Spabota, Simon Wang, and Zach Stapuk are also in here. I mean, Ostchuk played 56 games in the NHL, but this tier still does include these guys where if the San Jose Sharks are a contending team in the NHL, is Zach Ostchuk on the team? I mean, you score four points in the NHL last season playing on one of the worst teams in the league as a third or fourth line guy. That formula just doesn’t really seem to add up for me in three, four years when this team is better. And guys like McKini and Cherishov and Haltonin and Beaststead are all ideally on the team. So, we’ll see if I’m wrong on that. He has played in the NHL and that matters, but I just don’t know about long-term sticking ability. Brandon Fabota, I feel a bit similarly to him as I do with Stabchuck. I don’t know about long-term jobs in the NHL, but I’ve always just really really liked him. Some people found him a little controversial to put on the US junior team this year, but I thought he looked pretty good there. He’s always a player that has some good physical tools, some good pace in his game, and just not a whole lot of diversity there, but as a reliable guy that you just like to have on the ice from time to time, he’s a pretty good one. But again, the NHL is a bit of a ways away. There’s just a ton of guys in the everyone else category that they’ve just added over the years. And none of these guys really scratch an itch for me. I mean, they bought low on an Oscar Olson, but they gave up Denil Gushin to do it. We’ll see if that works out for them, but I’m not holding my breath because Olson just hasn’t really put it all together in the AHL yet. Guys like Nate Msky and Joey Maldoni have been good when I’ve seen them, but again, I don’t know about NHL players. So, overall though, this is a team that is drafted a lot. You’re not going to hit on every player, but at the end of the day, I might not have done things exactly the same way that they have. There are some players that I would have picked a few years ago that have turned out better than some of these guys, but you look at the group of players they’ve amassed with all of that draft capital over the years. They’re doing just fine, and I think the Sharks are going to find their way out of the basement relatively soon, and I imagine that a number of these players will be a part of it. So, the San Jose Sharks are going to get a 1 C. It’s honestly one of the better groups in the league. You would hope that it’s one of the better groups in the league considering how much they have drafted and how bad they have been in the NHL. But through it all with the young guys already on the roster, adding guys like Dickinson and Misa and maybe Kagyon this year, Cherishov, there’s just so much to like and the San Jose Sharks should be really, really excited as should their fans for what’s to come. And with that, we’re going to call it. If you like the video, definitely like and subscribe. 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In this episode of the Prospect Pyramid series, Will Scouch takes a look at the San Jose Sharks’ prospect system. From top young talent to long-term projects, every player in the Sharks’ pipeline is placed into a tier on the pyramid.

Will goes tier by tier, breaking down the organization’s depth and what the future could look like in San Jose.

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