It was a successful season for the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
They improved 34 points, from 52 to 86 points, and were on the cusp of the playoff race until the last week of the regular season. They established, without a doubt, that they have a franchise player in Macklin Celebrini. They saw lots of growth from other young stars like Will Smith and Sam Dickinson and Collin Graf and Michael Misa, among others.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier\u2019s off-season plan to take his team to the next level?<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll have to face potentially massive extensions for Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith. RFA Collin Graf is also due a healthy raise.<\/p>\n
Will 19-year-old Celebrini be his next captain?<\/p>\n
What will he do with UFAs Mario Ferraro, Vincent Desharnais, and Ryan Reaves?<\/p>\n
Was he happy with head coach Ryan Warsofsky\u2019s performance this season?<\/p>\n
What went wrong for the San Jose Sharks at the end of the year, that caused them to miss the playoffs?<\/p>\n
And will prospects Eric Pohlkamp and Leo Sahlin Wallenius join the San Jose Barracuda for their playoff push?<\/p>\n
Grier covered all these topics and more on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Warsofsky Will Be Back<\/p>\n
Warsofsky isn\u2019t going anywhere: Grier was happy with the job that his coaching staff did this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did a good job,\u201d Grier said. \u201cI think he\u2019s still learning and growing as a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a successful season for the San Jose Sharks. They improved 34 points, from 52 to 86…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[28189,62833,811,845,4794,1494,2270,4833,58,4007,5,2252,501,814,375,747,4,7590,748,1196,519,167,168,5306,5305,5719,1780,3613,802,4462,507,1125],"class_list":{"0":"post-556347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-blueline","10":"tag-captain","11":"tag-collin-graf","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-defensemen","14":"tag-eric-pohlkamp","15":"tag-extension","16":"tag-featured","17":"tag-free-agent","18":"tag-hockey","19":"tag-leo-sahlin-wallenius","20":"tag-macklin-celebrini","21":"tag-mario-ferraro","22":"tag-michael-misa","23":"tag-mike-grier","24":"tag-nhl","25":"tag-ryan-reaves","26":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","27":"tag-sam-dickinson","28":"tag-san-jose","29":"tag-san-jose-barracuda","30":"tag-san-jose-sharks","31":"tag-sanjose","32":"tag-sanjosesharks","33":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","34":"tag-sharks","35":"tag-trade","36":"tag-tyler-toffoli","37":"tag-vincent-desharnais","38":"tag-will-smith","39":"tag-yaroslav-askarov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}