Sheng Peng will probably be an everyday contributor to NBC Sports activities California’s Sharks protection. You possibly can learn extra of his protection on San Jose Hockey Now, take heed to him on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, and observe him on Twitter at @Sheng_Peng.
LAS VEGAS — Do the Sharks have a Jumbo-sized shock for the 2024 NHL Draft on Friday evening?
Joe Thornton is in Vegas, to assist rejoice the Sharks having the No. 1 total choose of the draft.
San Jose Hockey Now had dinner Thursday evening with the household of a 2024 draft-eligible participant who had been on the identical Las Vegas-bound aircraft as Thornton.
Will the 1997 first total choose announce the 2024 first total choose? Keep tuned. …
We all know the Sharks will choose Celebrini No. 1, and sure, in line with SJHN’s sources, the robust perception is he’ll flip professional for the 2024-25 marketing campaign. However who will the Sharks choose at No. 11, the choice acquired Thursday for the No. 14 and No. 42 picks?
Two league sources consider the Sharks moved as much as goal a high-end defenseman, although one conceded, “[Cole] Eiserman might be actual.”
There’s some buzz the Sharks are leaping the road for the polarizing sniper, who was Celebrini’s teammate at Shattuck-St. Mary’s in Minnesota. …
Talking of polarizing, SJHN realized a captivating tidbit about Sharks No. 1 defenseman Mario Ferraro, who’s seen across the league as both a second-pairing blueliner caught in an terrible state of affairs in San Jose or only a bottom-pairing D on a reputable playoff crew.
Ferraro was obtainable in the course of the 2023 NHL commerce deadline, and the Sharks wished a first-round choose and a prospect in trade … they usually virtually obtained it.
Elliotte Friedman beforehand has reported that the Carolina Hurricanes made a powerful provide for Ferraro in 2022-23. A league supply confirmed that supply was a second-round choose and left-handed heart Jack Drury.
A traditionally unhealthy Sharks season later, the supply mused, “In the event that they commerce [Ferraro], it’s going to be for manner lower than what that they had on the desk two years in the past on the commerce deadline.” …
Talking of hard-nosed, the Sharks traded defenseman Kyle Burroughs to the Los Angeles Kings for lunch-pail winger Carl Grundstrom.
“Grundstrom is fairly simple,” an NHL scout advised SJHN. “North-south winger, fairly good shot really, simply doesn’t hit the online a ton or make loads of performs. Can get sizzling occasionally and rating some. Bodily on forecheck.
“He’s a bottom-line wing, third line at his finest. One track-minded with it. Skate, hit, change.”
During the last three seasons, Grundstrom has scored at a 15-goal 82-game tempo, so he ought to present secondary scoring to the Sharks’ backside six. He additionally suits the profile of “exhausting to play in opposition to” participant that Sharks common supervisor Mike Grier has focused on up to now this offseason, akin to Barclay Goodrow and Ty Dellandrea. …
Lastly, so why did Grier fireplace David Quinn?
That shock dismissal in April nonetheless was a subject of dialog this week. It is perhaps water underneath the bridge with Ryan Warsofsky introduced as head coach final week, however SJHN realized from a number of sources that there was little communication between Grier and Quinn over the past two seasons — principally the length of their GM-head coach partnership.
The rationale for that’s unclear — that might be simply Grier’s administration model — however it actually paints a unique image of what was believed to be a lock-step Boston College-rooted relationship.
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