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Great draft for your Sharkies. And the most cap room in the league. Tomorrow will be fun.

Originally posted by NineFourNiner:
Great draft for your Sharkies. And the most cap room in the league. Tomorrow will be fun.

Didn't realize they had the most cap room. FA tomorrow could be very interesting - hopefully, they'll get at least one or two of the main guys they target. Also, wouldn't rule out a trade at some point this offseason.

Originally posted by Scoots:
Yep ... the question is who do they go for?

Aaron Ekblad would be interesting ... he's not too old and he's unrestricted ... there is the drug issue, but maybe he wants a fresh start?

Nope stays in FL

Depends where Grier is at in the rebuild. If he feels he is done with the lottery, then he may be more aggressive. If he feels he still needs to pick in the top 10 again this next year, we'll likely try to target some 1 year rentals with the hopes of flipping them.

If Grier makes some significant signings (Gravikov, Provorov, maybe granlund again) and tries for Marner, then the rebuild might be close to ending.

Originally posted by NineFourNiner:
Great draft for your Sharkies. And the most cap room in the league. Tomorrow will be fun.

They are SO young.

Originally posted by LottDMontanaO:

Originally posted by NineFourNiner:
Great draft for your Sharkies. And the most cap room in the league. Tomorrow will be fun.

Didn't realize they had the most cap room. FA tomorrow could be very interesting - hopefully, they'll get at least one or two of the main guys they target. Also, wouldn't rule out a trade at some point this offseason.

They have so many prospects trades are certainly in the future.

Originally posted by ads_2006:

Originally posted by Scoots:
Yep ... the question is who do they go for?

Aaron Ekblad would be interesting ... he's not too old and he's unrestricted ... there is the drug issue, but maybe he wants a fresh start?

Nope stays in FL

Depends where Grier is at in the rebuild. If he feels he is done with the lottery, then he may be more aggressive. If he feels he still needs to pick in the top 10 again this next year, we'll likely try to target some 1 year rentals with the hopes of flipping them.

If Grier makes some significant signings (Gravikov, Provorov, maybe granlund again) and tries for Marner, then the rebuild might be close to ending.

I assume Ekblad would stay in FL ... hard to leave a winning team ... but who knows :)

The rebuild is still going, the kids are too young and raw to really win now, but they can't keep losing most of their games without starting to damage the kids, so I think they will make moves to win more games now and build the culture the right way going forward.

It's not that they have to win half of their games, but they need to not lose 5 in a row anymore, they need to have a chance.

At the same time there is real power of the kids coming up together and winning with guys close in age.

Florida kept everyone important. I thought they might lose atleast one piece.

Originally posted by LottDMontanaO:

#SJSharks qualified Bordeleau, Gushchin & Thompson.

Didn't qualify Berglund, Burke, Coe, Gregor, Kostin, Kovalenko, Romanov & Russell.

Shocking about Kovalenko. Qualify him, maybe flip his rights another day.

Sharks gotta wear that, making him a key piece of Blackwood trade.

— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) June 30, 2025

yeah totally agree about Kovalenko, that's ridiculous.

Originally posted by Scoots:

Originally posted by ads_2006:

Originally posted by Scoots:
Yep ... the question is who do they go for?

Aaron Ekblad would be interesting ... he's not too old and he's unrestricted ... there is the drug issue, but maybe he wants a fresh start?

Nope stays in FL

Depends where Grier is at in the rebuild. If he feels he is done with the lottery, then he may be more aggressive. If he feels he still needs to pick in the top 10 again this next year, we'll likely try to target some 1 year rentals with the hopes of flipping them.

If Grier makes some significant signings (Gravikov, Provorov, maybe granlund again) and tries for Marner, then the rebuild might be close to ending.

I assume Ekblad would stay in FL ... hard to leave a winning team ... but who knows :)

The rebuild is still going, the kids are too young and raw to really win now, but they can't keep losing most of their games without starting to damage the kids, so I think they will make moves to win more games now and build the culture the right way going forward.

It's not that they have to win half of their games, but they need to not lose 5 in a row anymore, they need to have a chance.

At the same time there is real power of the kids coming up together and winning with guys close in age.

I'm fine if he waits till next summer too, to make some big moves.

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

Originally posted by Scoots:

Originally posted by ads_2006:

Originally posted by Scoots:
Yep ... the question is who do they go for?

Aaron Ekblad would be interesting ... he's not too old and he's unrestricted ... there is the drug issue, but maybe he wants a fresh start?

Nope stays in FL

Depends where Grier is at in the rebuild. If he feels he is done with the lottery, then he may be more aggressive. If he feels he still needs to pick in the top 10 again this next year, we'll likely try to target some 1 year rentals with the hopes of flipping them.

If Grier makes some significant signings (Gravikov, Provorov, maybe granlund again) and tries for Marner, then the rebuild might be close to ending.

I assume Ekblad would stay in FL ... hard to leave a winning team ... but who knows :)

The rebuild is still going, the kids are too young and raw to really win now, but they can't keep losing most of their games without starting to damage the kids, so I think they will make moves to win more games now and build the culture the right way going forward.

It's not that they have to win half of their games, but they need to not lose 5 in a row anymore, they need to have a chance.

At the same time there is real power of the kids coming up together and winning with guys close in age.

I'm fine if he waits till next summer too, to make some big moves.

It will be interesting to see if Celebrini becomes the accepted leader since he certainly seems to be the type. The concern is that they come together fast enough to keep from breaking down the confidence of the players. Bedard certainly struggled with it last year.

Sharks fans - tell me why I should be excited about old-ass Mikael Granlund.

Originally posted by NineFourNiner:
Sharks fans - tell me why I should be excited about old-ass Mikael Granlund.

Because culture?

Originally posted by NineFourNiner:
Sharks fans - tell me why I should be excited about old-ass Mikael Granlund.

I thought he was the 2nd best player on the team when they moved him.