It\u2019s mock draft season!<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks have two picks, No. 2 and 20, in the first round of the 2026 NHL draft.<\/p>\n
San Jose Hockey Now has asked 15 beat writers and one guest GM to make selections for their teams for this top-20 mock draft. SJHN will make the San Jose Sharks\u2019 picks.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Mark Masters<\/a> of TSN, Thomas Drance<\/a> of The Athletic, Ben Pope<\/a> of Chicago Sun-Times, Vince Mercogliano<\/a> of The Athletic, Ryan Pike<\/a> of Flames Nation, Keegan McNally<\/a> of the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, Ken Wiebe<\/a> of the Winnipeg Free Press, George Richards<\/a> of Florida Hockey Now, Nick Kieser<\/a> of Lower Broad Hockey, Jeremy Rutherford<\/a> of The Athletic, James Nichols<\/a> of New Jersey Hockey Now, Stefen Rosner<\/a> of the Elmonters, Brian Hedger<\/a> of the Columbus Dispatch, Sammi Silber<\/a> of the Hockey News, John Hoven<\/a> of Mayor\u2019s Manor, and Cole Bagley<\/a> of KSL Sports for helping out.<\/p>\n 1. Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n Mark Masters selects winger Gavin McKenna: \u201cJohn Chayka says they will pick the best player available. Gavin McKenna is the best player available.\u201d<\/p>\n 2. San Jose Sharks<\/p>\n Sheng Peng selects\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s mock draft season! The San Jose Sharks have two picks, No. 2 and 20, in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[28189,627,44170,43174,16166,51730,39813,26,21430,21431,96,3307,230,21432,27612,21433,58,57,766,33628,5,629,57864,14463,26508,2529,63690,66488,145,42179,27054,30782,5602,231,151,159,35,4,465,466,66489,26990,673,66490,66491,168,234,84,15600,12462,11185,31,10800,3154,27,632,18264,109,26017],"class_list":["post-598324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-draft","tag-2026-draft","tag-adam-novotny","tag-alberts-smits","tag-alexander-command","tag-ben-pope","tag-brian-hedger","tag-caleb-malhotra","tag-calgary-flames","tag-carson-carels","tag-chase-reid","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-cole-bagley","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-daxon-rudolph","tag-elton-hermansson","tag-ethan-belchetz","tag-featured","tag-florida-panthers","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-george-richards","tag-hockey","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-james-nichols","tag-jeremy-rutherford","tag-john-hoven","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-keegan-mcnally","tag-ken-wiebe","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-maksim-sokolovskii","tag-malte-gustafsson","tag-mark-masters","tag-mock-draft","tag-nashville-predators","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nhl-entry-draft","tag-nick-kieser","tag-oscar-hemming","tag-ryan-lin","tag-ryan-pike","tag-sammi-silber","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stefen-rosner","tag-thomas-drance","tag-tommy-bleyl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-tynan-lawrence","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-viggo-bjorck","tag-vince-mercogliano","tag-washington-capitals","tag-wyatt-cullen"],"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\/598324","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=598324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}