GAME NIGHT: San Jose Sharks’ REBUILD Takes SHOCKING Turn | Will Celebrini Lead Them to GLORY?

GAME NIGHT: San Jose Sharks’ REBUILD Takes SHOCKING Turn | Will Celebrini Lead Them to GLORY?

The off season is well underway and we here at Locked on NHL game night are tackling the toughest questions with our favorite local experts. Tonight we head out to the Bay Area and check in on the San Jose Sharks. Maybe a team that is inching closer to where they want to get to. Cam, are they do we have the foundations right here for a Stanley Cup championship team in the near future? I think we’ll find out. We’ll answer that question and so much more as we welcome our old friend JD Young on this summer edition of Locked On NHL Game Night. When that final horn sounds, you know it’s time for Locked On NHL Game Night. All the postgame reactions to every game across the league every single night with insights only the hosts at Locked On can provide. Prepare to experience game day reactions like never before, only on Locked On NHL Game Night. Your team every day. Hello there, hockey fans, and welcome to another episode of Locked On NHL Game Night. I’m Cam Stewart, a sad Boston Bruins fan sitting in the third coast. I’m Tyler Felman, a lifelong Penguins fan, born and raised in Pittsburgh, but currently still loving life in Austin, Texas. And tonight we have the honor of welcoming this man right here, J D Young. Welcome to the show, J D. We’re here to talk some Sharks, but it’s finally nice to have you on game night here with Cam and myself. Appreciate it. Uh yeah, I mean with Sharks highlights this year, it’s very much been me. Uh the Sharks lost again. Celebrity did something cool, but the Sharks lost it again. So uh yeah, I get to actually talk about more than just Celebrity did something cool and the Sharks lost again. Yeah, JD, I feel like there’s a little bit more shark bite this off season. The summer is a time where the sharks, they get together here in the Pacific Ocean, I guess, in in your case, and and they try to smell out some blood. Is there blood in the water for these San Jose Sharks as we look ahead to next season? Uh, I don’t know if there’s blood in the water. I think we’re still in the chumming phase right now of trying to gather all the sharks and such. Uh, but I think they’re starting to kind of nibble around and see what’s going on here. But I do think this is a team that, you know, had a productive, we’ll say, off seasonason. Maybe not the the flashiest or sexiest offseason, but I think it did make some some moves and hopefully now, as we’ll probably we’ll talk about later, can start to kind of make that next step for this team. A team that has been the worst team in the NHL over the past two seasons and now just not be the worst team in the NHL. I think is uh, you know, got to set the bar low. uh and and see where we can go from here. That’s a good place to start, JD. That is a good place to start. And look, you’ve been making the most out of at least that’s what we’ve seen and the experts think over the last couple years. Another year, another top three pick, another top two pick. Uh Michael Misa going number two overall. Uh most years this is a number one overall pick. So in in a way San Jose gets lucky that it’s kind of a meh draft. Um, and the Islanders wanted Matthew Schaefer and now Michael Misa kind of falls into your lap at number two. You’ve you’ve heard the goddy numbers, right? 62 goals, 72 assists, 134 points in 65 games. Normally that is a guy number one overall in your lineup. Game number one kind of like Mlin Celibbrini last year, but JD, that might not be the case with having such a great prospect pool. Is there a chance Michael Misa is not in the NHL this year? Yeah, there is a chance. I’m It’s one of the biggest offseason storylines for the Sharks, him and Sam Dickinson, on which one of these guys if or both these guys can make the NHL out of training camp. And you know, we’re we’re seeing now, especially with how the CHL and the NHL and the NCAA are all kind of moving in a different uh kind of way with CHL prospect going to the NCAA for a year and playing in the NCAA to kind of get that finishing school before making the jump to the NHL. And Misa is definitely a candidate to be one of those guys, right? Uh you look at schools like Penn State where Luke uh Luke Misa, Michael Misa’s brother plays. I know Tyler’s getting very excited over there. Uh you also have, you know, like a school like Michigan State, which just lost some pieces. Could use a topline center like Michael Misa. You look at the Boston schools that uh you know, of course, Mike Greer uh famously loves himself a Boston kid. Uh, so you could definitely see Michael Misa playing in college next year. I think going back to the CHL and going back to Sagenol, uh, he would just put up ridiculous numbers again, but it wouldn’t be the most productive season for him as he continues to round out his game. I think they take the Will Smith approach. and Will Smith, who last season uh started with the Sharks after spending a very productive season with Boston College, but they really were very kind of deliberate with how they utilized him, especially the first half of the season, playing third line minutes. They didn’t play him backtoback games where he would get uh development days where he would spend time work, extra time on the ice, more time on the gym trying to get himself ready and in NHL shape. I could see the Sharks doing the same thing with Michael Misa. Misa, who I think is a more is a cleaner prospect than Will Smith was at the same time. And you know, even coming out of Boston College, uh Will Smith did have questions about how was he going to play in the defensive zone, how is he going to hold up uh to the NHL schedule. Um we saw the second half of the season, Will Smith was outstanding for the San Jose Sharks and was almost a point per game player in the last 40 games of the year. For Michael Misa, I can understand if the Sharks, who again, Michael Misa I think is a cleaner prospect who can play in all three zones. I wouldn’t be surprised if they took the same approach, started him on the third line with a veteran center like an Alex Wenberg and just let him kind of dip his toes knowing again the Sharks aren’t going to do anything this year. This whole season is about getting Michael Misa up to speed. JD, I I do have to ask because in my eyes the smartest decision for him would be to go to Penn State with his brother. Well, let’s not overthink this here. He just got Mlin Celebrini from BEu. Mike Greas over here. I just think Pagola Ice Arena in University Park, Pennsylvania, the roof would absolutely explode if that happened. But Michael Misa has been quoted saying, “My goal is to play in the NHL. That’s where my head’s at right now.” And that wasn’t too long ago here in this summer month. So with that in mind, how aggressive JD should the Sharks be in making sure that happens? I think I honestly think he ends up in the NHL. just because again like we have a formula that worked with Will Smith and I know every prospect is different and right and you can’t apply the same but I think Misa is a combination of Celibbrini who again one of the best prospects that we’ve seen and the way he impacted the game last year in all three zones I don’t think Misa is going to have that type of impact right away but if you again use what you learned from Will Smith and apply that to the Michael Misa development I think there’s a an easy path to success for Misa and again a team that is projected to be like one of the worst teams in the NHL again this year. Uh like and I think the Sharks have a strong enough kind of veterans around Misa where they’ll be able to you know Will Smith and Celbrini can kind of handle their own now they can utilize some of these guys to kind of put Michael Bisa in the best position to succeed. So that’s what that’s my guess as we’re you know mid July right now and obviously you know that young core that we’re going to talk about throughout this this whole segment here or this whole show in this NHL preview the San Jose Sharks. Um but looking at Michael Misa like we just did that’s that’s who people would say okay that kid could come in and win the Calder as the rookie of the year. But JD, you did a show recently about a different Shark who could win the Calder this year that’s going to surprise a lot of people. Yeah. I mean, Ascarov, right, the the former first round pick of the Nashville Predators. Um, you know, he’s going to be the fulltime guy for the Sharks this year, right? And they’ve been kind like they again kind of kept the training wheels on Ascar last year. They wanted the San Jose Barracuda team to be good and for ASCRORP to have a deep playoff run with them. And the team kind of ran out of gas with uh AHL MVP Andrew Potterski missing the last part of the season there. And uh but this is a team that was very reliant on Ascrov and Ascrov did basically everything you could ask for in the AHL. Now it is his time. It’s his crease. Uh the Sharks went out of his their way to try to as best they can uh fix or revamp the defense a little bit. They went out and they got Alex Nadelovich from the Pittsburgh Penguins to be a really solid backup. But it’s Ascro’s crease. And I think now the big thing is do they kind of follow the Dustin Wolf pattern of like again maybe the first half of the season, right, you’re kind of keep the training wheels on a little bit, but then the second half you just let him go. Um I like I did my whole show and on it and looking at how other team like other kind of goalies who were finalists. The big thing is is team success and I just don’t know if the Sharks are going to have the team success uh to be able to to vault uh Ascrov into the conversation. But if the Sharks go from being the worst team in the NHL to like you know picking 10th or 11th is probably going to be a lot because of Ascarov and and the the difference that he makes. That is that’s a tough thing to do for a rookie uh goalender on a team that is tagged quite as much. But you have the belief. JD Young has the belief and he is the caretaker of the reef here. So I’m listening to what JD Young has to say about this Sharks team. The foundation, the pieces, they might already be there in San Jose before Michael Misa even steps onto the ice. Let’s talk about the guys they’ve already drafted and what you’re going to expect from the Bean Pot Boys this year in San Jose. Let’s do it next on Locked on NHL Game Night. But first, a word from our sponsor in today’s show, which is Monarch Money. 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Cam Stewart with Tyler Feldman and JD Young of Locked on Sharks, the caretaker of the reef. Let’s shift for the guys who haven’t played yet to the guys who have a little bit. Bean pot boys, green line guys. I’m trying out a couple different nicknames, JD. Uh, but really what I’m looking at are the two guys who played at Bean Pot Schools. One in Boston, one in Newton. Uh, that would be Boston Colleg’s Will Smith, the highest draft pick for BC ever. And then Mlin Celbrini the next year at number one overall. Celabbrini comes really close to winning the Calder Trophy last year. Uh, Will Smith takes a step forward. Before we look at what they do for the short term and long-term future of this team, what what did you see from these guys in their in their first year together on on an NHL ice? Yeah, I mean, let’s start with Cabbrini, who, you know, was the first overall pick and uh stepped into the league, right? He had the one game and then he missed, you know, I think it was 11 games afterwards because of a preseason injury. Uh so it was it felt like you your mom gave you a toy and then immediately took it away uh with celebrity but then once he came back this team was a different team and yes they again still the worst team in the NHL but you saw what makes Celibbrini special on a night in nightight out basis and the way he can play in all three zones the way to the way he can transition the puck and get the puck going from point A to point B which was a huge huge problem for the Sharks going back in the 2324 season. Celebrini helps us solve a lot of that stuff. Uh, and then the kid just has that dog at him. Like he is that like never say die. I’m going to drag people with me kicking and screaming and just something the sharks needed, right? Uh, I always say he has the mentality of a third liner, but the skills of a superstar, right? Of like I’m just going to go out there. I’m going to grind it out and like I’m not going to quit on a shift until again they literally have to drag me on the ice. Um, and you saw that you saw that leadership from an 18-year-old kid. There’s already speculation that he might be wearing the C next year as a 19-year-old kid because he is that special and that just that much of a leader and his impact around the you know I don’t know if he wears it this year but it won’t be long until the is on his chest like that is how special a player Cabrini is. Uh for Will Smith, he kind of has that like Kobe like quiet assassin mentality, which was a really nice kind of dynamic between the two where celebr uh animated, but Smith’s got this like quiet intensity with him and then just you saw a lot of the that kind of poise and that clutch kind of factor with Will Smith making big plays at the right moments. And again, like I mentioned before with Will Smith, it took about half the year for him to click and then all of a sudden things clicked and he was you saw what made him such a special player. Even going back to his days at BC, right, where it took like a month or so for him to click and kind of get things going. Even though he was playing with Gabe Perau, you know, and and like uh guys that he was familiar with, but then all of a sudden it clicked for Will Smith and you saw why he was one of the best players in college his freshman season. So, um, yeah, I I think the the sky’s is the limit for these guys. Uh, it’ll be interesting to see with Will Smith, who Mike Greer is going to the plan is to have Smith play center this year, which is where that was his natural position. Um, and then eventually it’ll probably come down to Misa versmith as your 2C with, of course, Cabbrini cemented as your number one center. Uh, and then whoever quote unquote loses that battle has to then go play on Mac on Celibbrini’s wing. So, it’s not like it’s some terrible punishment that you have to go play with Celerrini, but um my assumption is long term it’s probably going to be Celerrini and Smith down the middle middle with or sorry uh Celery Misa down the middle with uh Will Smith playing on uh Celibbrini’s wing at some point. JD, so from my vantage point and I used to love those old San Jose Shark teams with Owen Nolan, uh Patrick Marlo, Joe Thornton. Seems like with Celibbrini and Smith, the Sharks are back on track to getting back to that place that they once were as one of the most dominant teams in the Pacific. What do Celebrin and Smith though have to do to improve their game, to improve their leadership to take San Jose from a 20- win team, let’s say, to a 30 35 win team here next season? Uh, I think for Celibbrini, I mean, just continuing to do what you’re doing, right? and what we saw from Celibbrini last year like I have no doubt and you’ve seen hopefully some improvement with some of the pieces around you know guys like Jeff Skinner etc and the defense which I think you know Sharks went out and added three new defenders this off season to try to improve this defense but I I think for especially for Celabbrini is just continue to do what you’re doing right and he’s always going to have a target on his back because he’s Melabbrini uh but the kid’s special like I mean he’s he’s been kind training for this moment since he was 11 or 12 years old. And the nice thing when your dad’s Rick Celebrini and works for the Warriors, it’s not like you haven’t been exposed to professional athletes and this kind of mentality. So, I think the kids got the right makeup for it. Uh for Will Smith, I think it’s just continued to grow and develop based off what you did last season. And that was just kind of playing smarter, being not so careless with the puck. That’s what got to Smith into a lot of trouble, especially early in the season, is just kind of learning that timing of stuff I could get away with in college that I can’t do in the NHL. Uh, but then you started to see those flashes of what makes Will Smith special. So, uh, I think though the transition back to center will be interesting to see. And but I I think these Sharks have some veteran wingers to put around Smith to hopefully kind of make that transition a little bit easier right now. So, uh, yeah, I I fully expect these guys to continue to take the next step. for Celibbrini. Like I don’t see why he can’t be a point per game player in year two. Wow. And and I think his dad, you said third line mentality, first line skill. I think his dad says Andrea Guidala mentality, Steph Curry skill. He’s not quite as tapped as Draymond Green, so he doesn’t go that far. Um that would be like Matt Cook. Okay, more like that. Um, so looking at these two guys and Misa coming in, I I saw this comparison in the other the other day on YouTube, JD, and I I need you to stick with me here, okay? Because it might sound weird at first, but and I don’t remember who the YouTuber is. I feel bad. I like to give credit there, but they said that there’s a little bit of like an Oilers thing with this with this makeup of the Sharks so far. You know, that that really great number one center, Mlin Celerini, Conor McDavid. um looking at an elite scoring center on your line two in the future. Michael Misa, Leon Dryidle, um a guy who is top of the draft kind of skill who could play center or on the wing when when need be, Will Smith. Do you see the vision here? Like is there is there some of that feeling in the Bay Area that maybe that’s the team we’re going to become? That would be I mean uh that would be outstanding. Espe if if Min Celebrin is anywhere near Conor McDavid, I think uh we’re pretty happy like I mean you know definitely take it and of of course right the the comparison for Celebrity has always been Sydney Crosby right just especially the the full 200 foot game and again if Cabbrini is anywhere near in the realm of of Sydney Crosby we as Sharks fans are going to only Sydney Crosby only Cindy what a great player what a what a generational that’s not bad yeah hey Cam my my thing with that comparison though is JD, are you okay with losing back-to-back Stanley Cups? Uh, I mean I What’s another Stanley Cup loss for me or another playoff uh crushing another playoff? Hey, let’s go back. Let’s go back to 2016. I mean, let’s just rewind the tape. Yeah, I definitely didn’t uh cry on my couch when the Sharks finally made the Stanley Cup and then cry on my couch when the Sharks lost the Stanley Cup that year. So, you know what’s more? I I just want to let you know I wasn’t crying uh that same that same year as you were cry I I empathize with your tears I empathize with your tears but I I wasn’t cried uh in that moment. Tyler rubs this in. We my people we give you a Hall of Famer and Joe Thornton. Tyler’s people they just rub it in. Oh, come on. Come on. It was all good fun. I said I empathize. It’s fine. It’s fine. Like I I mean nothing. Like as weird as it sound, it’s still not worse than the reverse sweep. like that is still the most that’s like number one like in the like heart breaking like yeah the reverse sweep to the and then the kings go on and win the cup. Uh and yeah like that’s number one. So I can relate to that. JD KD I kind of JD I kind of want to jump through the screen right now and just give you a big big hug. Uh you know I mean there’s we our logo literally has a shark choking on a stick. I mean what else do you want? So, it it’s my favorite. Hey, hey, all things considered, I have always loved the Sharks one color scheme and two logo. It It is Whoever designed it, I don’t know the history. That’d be a great great little great little chatter chatter point to to find that out because it’s a great logo. Great locked on episode in the summer. JD, you’ve been doing this a long time. So, I don’t mean to keep No, the Sharks have done like a whole full thing like they have uh they have the the artists come back and do like uh special stuff occasionally too as well. So, yeah. No, it’s a they’ve they’ve they’ve covered it. Sharks have covered it. It’s it’s a great story. Anyway, so well, speaking of I mean, look, things are looking up for the Sharks overall. It just might take a couple years. So, next question we need to tackle. What phase of the rebuild are we in? Let’s talk about it next on Locked on NHL Game Night. 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And I think it’s you have to kind of separate, right? Uh because when the Sharks last made the playoffs, 2018, 2019, uh Doug Wilson was still the GM. Uh, of course, Doug Wilson, architect of all those great Sharks teams that everybody loves. Um, he still had the like, and I’m sure you guys are going to have he heard these before, right? I still believe in the bones. The core is still good. We can still all we got to do is work around the edges and stuff like that, right? Uh, the Sharks of course didn’t haven’t made the playoff sense, right? And it took a couple years. Doug Wilson stepped down. Uh, of course, Sharks then, uh, went on and hired Mike Greer. Mike Greer, even Mike Greer coming into this, like I don’t want to literally on his like opening press conference, I don’t want to burn this thing down and start them from the beginning. Sharks get out to a terrible start under Mike Greer. And then they trade team Omire. And that’s kind of the the signal of when when this rebuild officially started was trading team Omire, a young player who was, you know, deserving of a massive contract that he got from the New Jersey Devils. That I think is kind of the the moment when the rebuild actually went. So you kind of wasted three years of doing nothing because Doug Wilson still believed in the bones of this the franchise even though you know Joe Thornton had left and Patrick Marlo had left and he didn’t want to pay Joe Povvelski for three seasons and like he kind of believed in it but he didn’t really believe in the bones. So, uh, but it’s it’s been, you know, three full seasons now of, I would say, true rebuild for the Sharks. And that’s honestly how long it takes. And I will give my career credit. He has been very aggressive in acquiring draft picks and acquiring young talent. Um, you know, the Sharks have had multiple number one picks, three straight seasons in a row here or first round picks. And they’re going to have they go into next year with two first round picks already with their own pick and the Edmonton Oilers pick that they got for um for Jake Walman this season. And so he’s been very good about being aggressive and acquiring that talent. Do I think it’s around the corner? I think we’re starting to turn the corner, we’ll say. Uh I like to call it the fun and frisky phase, right? Where you’re competitive every night, like you make teams kind of work for it, but we kind of know what you are, right? And instead of being a dormat, can they just be fun and frisky? I think the Sharks are entering that phase, especially with Celibbrini and Will Smith and Eklan who we haven’t like talked about on this show yet and some of the other players coming into the lineup here soon. I think they’re going to start to enter that fun and frisky phase where they’re going to make teams sweat and work for it this year. Still expect a lot of losses, but I think you’re they’re going to give you something to watch every night and a reason why to tune in. And I think that’s the phase we’re entering right now. And so if that is the fun and frisky phase, do you have a timeline for when they become like trophy wife phase, trophy husband phase? Uh I think you’re looking at my guess would be like that 2829 season is when like okay this team should be competing for a playoff spot and then you enter the 30s. It’s like okay this is now like hopefully the team of the 30s and you look at jokes. Yes. Yeah. So, you know, you look at like your Colorado Avalanche and your your Tampa Bay Lightning and, you know, your Florida, like those teams where it’s like as long as this core is together, it feels like they’re going to be in it no matter what. You know, even like the light or like the ABS, right? Um, as long as McKenna and Kale Mar and, you know, some of those other guys are on this team, you feel like that team is uh going to be in the mix for a Stanley Cup and, you know, hopefully you get things to break your way one season. I think that’s where the sharks are headed. Or I hope that’s where the sharks are headed because I have had to watch a lot of bad hockey over the past couple seasons. Get that. I get that. Um JD, I have I have the real question here. Like let’s get down to brass tax towards the end of the show. Um are you are you a Jersey guy at all? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I’m a huge Jersey guy. Um I have about 40 of them and what I thought you meant New Jersey. I thought you meant that’s what I thought at first, but then I saw the jersey behind him and I was like, Cam, you’re not a New Jersey guy. No, no, no. I won’t get offensive here on the show. I wouldn’t ask JD that. Um, but I wouldn’t make him admit that if that was the case. Just kidding. We’re not doing the devil’s show, so it doesn’t matter. Um, what I really need to know, we got the the black alternates back with the with the new shark logo, like the little thing coming out of the water there. I need a Min Cellabrini one, and why have they not been on sale this entire season? Do you have any inside intel on that? Like I’m I’m actually angry about this. Yeah, we we we had to do this on the show. We couldn’t have done this off camera. People need to know, man. Like Sharks Pro. I’ve seen plenty of black celebrity jerseys around the tank. So the Sharks take you in. I don’t know. Pro Shop website. Uh yeah, the Sharks Pro Shop website. They’ll they’ll whoever you want on it. They’ll have them all set up and for you. So they do a great job. Yeah, I I have my that’s why I ordered myself like as soon as the Sharks drafted Celebrity and signed him. I had that sucker in the cart ready to go. Uh so yes, I have I got the uh the home one. Um but yes, I yeah, I had that that’s that bad boy. No offense to the teal. I just I love that alternate one. I’m going to I’m going to get a captain on it. Just get ahead of it. My favorite are the actually the away whites. I love the away white jerseys. I think they look so good. Uh, but I also my crazy because the NHL is no fun. I think all the California teams when they play each other should just wear their homes because you have the teal and black of the Kings and Sharks. You have the teal and orange, Kings and D or Sharks and Ducks and then you have the orange and black ducks and Kings. Like all those color combos look really great together and they should play they should be able to wear those against each other. But the NHL hates fun so you know they’ll never That’s for sure, man. That’s there’s one thing we’ve learned by watching the NHL all these years, that is that is definitely it. Anything they like or anything that’s like remotely liked, we’re not going to do that anymore, guys. We had a great draft in Vegas, we’re changing it. Yeah, we’re going to make it the most confusing draft we’ve ever had and it will be a fiveh hour first round. Hope you’ll have fun. Um JD, thanks so much for coming on JD taking the time here. Um this is just one of 32. We’ve already knocked down a couple of weeks of this of this season preview project we got going on here on Lockdown NHL Game Night. We will have your team covered, all 32 of them. So, be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already. You can find us, of course, on YouTube and wherever you find your podcasts as well. For Tyler Feldman and for JD Young of Locked on Sharks, I’m Kim Stewart. We will see you on the next preview on Locked on NHL Game Night.

Are the San Jose Sharks finally turning the corner in their rebuild? The team’s recent draft picks and young prospects are generating buzz among NHL fans.

Host Cam Stuart and Tyler Feldman dive into the Sharks’ promising future with guest JD Young from Locked On Sharks. They analyze top draft pick Michael Misa’s potential impact and explore the development of key young players like Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith. The conversation shifts to goaltender Askarov’s role in San Jose’s plans and the timeline for the team to become playoff contenders. Young provides insider insights on the Sharks’ “fun and frisky” phase and when fans can expect to see results.

Tune in to discover if the Sharks are truly on the verge of something special or still swimming in troubled waters.

0:00 Intro: Offseason questions with local experts

5:56 Michael Misa’s potential NHL debut

11:50 Celebrini and Smith’s impact on Sharks

15:28 Improving Sharks from 20 to 30+ wins

20:52 Game Time app for concert tickets

22:54 Timeline and progress of Sharks rebuild

27:29 Sharks jersey talk and California team colors

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