Speculation: 2023-24-25 Sharks Roster Discussion

[one2gamble]

So… do we keep Eklund at C?

I wouldnt mind watching a few more games with him at C

 

[landshark]

I dunno, if you asked me what my five favorite cities with NHL teams to visit are, I think they'd be the same as the ones that got top 5 from the players. If you just dropped me in San Jose for one or two days, I don't know that there's that much I'd be excited about compared to those places.

Also, 1.69% of the people surveyed for "least favorite road city" would be three guys.

Downtown SJ is a pit and, other than nice winter weather, there really isn’t much for a visiting player to get excited about.

For me, it's more about what they said about the fans being "sad"... Contextually it feels like a potshot from some rich, entitled asshat. This is the equivalent to me as Ronald McDonald going on TV and calling people that eat at McDonald's a sad group of people.

 

[Mattb124]

For me, it's more about what they said about the fans being "sad"... Contextually it feels like a potshot from some rich, entitled asshat. This is the equivalent to me as Ronald McDonald going on TV and calling people that eat at McDonald's a sad group of people.

I think they may be right. When I travel outside the Bay Area, it generally surprises me how happy people are almost everywhere I go (other than LA).

The thing about the south bay is most people who live here aren’t from here and many don't intend to stay here after they retire, so there seems less of a sense of “community” than anywhere else I have lived.

A buddy from Fresno who works over here a bit made a very similar comment to me just last weekend about how people are in the Bay Area generally less friendly than those who live in the Central Valley. Food for thought….

 

[Mafoofoo]

I think they may be right. When I travel outside the Bay Area, it generally surprises me how happy people are almost everywhere I go (other than LA).

The thing about the south bay is most people who live here aren’t from here and many don't intend to stay here after they retire, so there seems less of a sense of “community” than anywhere else I have lived.

A buddy from Fresno who works over here a bit made a very similar comment to me just last weekend about how people are in the Bay Area generally less friendly than those who live in the Central Valley. Food for thought….

I have a totally different experience whenever im visiting my folks back home in the south bay.

Everyone is friendly and nice and alot of places/people i knew growing up are still running around (minus half the parks i remember growing up now being apple or google offices)

But it could be a city to city difference too.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Maybe by sad he means pathetic. Perhaps some fans were a little over the top at an in person run in

 

[timorous me]

For me, it's more about what they said about the fans being "sad"... Contextually it feels like a potshot from some rich, entitled asshat. This is the equivalent to me as Ronald McDonald going on TV and calling people that eat at McDonald's a sad group of people.

I don't think it was necessarily meant to be taken in a bad way. Players used to talk about how much they loved the atmosphere at the Tank, even on the opposing team, so it could well be someone coming in to a half-full building in the middle of a long losing streak and thinking, "Damn, this is sad."

 

[landshark]

I think they may be right. When I travel outside the Bay Area, it generally surprises me how happy people are almost everywhere I go (other than LA).

The thing about the south bay is most people who live here aren’t from here and many don't intend to stay here after they retire, so there seems less of a sense of “community” than anywhere else I have lived.

A buddy from Fresno who works over here a bit made a very similar comment to me just last weekend about how people are in the Bay Area generally less friendly than those who live in the Central Valley. Food for thought….

That's great and all, but as a fan I don't think the folks that are directly employed due to my (and everyone else's) fandom should say things like that about the fans as a group, at all. Think it all they want, that's fine. Tell their friends, that's fine too. Put that shit in an article I'm paying to read and it's no longer ok, at least in my opinion.

Plenty of Sharks fans don't live in the bay area, they got dissed too, because they're also Sad Sharks Fans. I happen to think fans from other places that travel to the tank to see the Sharks are top notch since they're putting in all that effort.

It's not about the SJ or the bay, make no mistake, they dissed Shark fans specifically.

I don't think it was necessarily meant to be taken in a bad way. Players used to talk about how much they loved the atmosphere at the Tank, even on the opposing team, so it could well be someone coming in to a half-full building in the middle of a long losing streak and thinking, "Damn, this is sad."

They should marvel at all the fans that are paying to see that night's trainwreck, not playing up how sad it is that the place is half empty.

 

[sharski]

bay area people are definitely cold compared to other places

Like I definitely think the Seattle Freeze is not something special to Seattle imo to applies to Californians as well

Maybe that's where I get my rbf because I've been here so long

 

[Juxtaposer]

So… do we keep Eklund at C?

Why not? He’s absolutely good enough defensively already. I think he has the potential to be the best sub-6’ defensive player in the league.

If we luck into Celebrini, then probably Eklund fits better at wing, but for now let him cook.

 

[Jargon]

Why not? He’s absolutely good enough defensively already. I think he has the potential to be the best sub-6’ defensive player in the league.

If we luck into Celebrini, then probably Eklund fits better at wing, but for now let him cook.

I’m thinking the same thing. If Eklund can keep it up and be a top 6 center, it certainly
opens up some options for us. Maybe takes a bit of pressure off of Smith.

 

[TheBeard]

So… do we keep Eklund at C?

The problem is finding him good enough linemates. At least playing with Hertl is playing with Hertl.

 

[Jargon]

The problem is finding him good enough linemates. At least playing with Hertl is playing with Hertl.

Couture and Guschin, baybeee

 

[sharski]

The problem is finding him good enough linemates. At least playing with Hertl is playing with Hertl.

Couture and Guschin, baybeee

Marc-Eduoard Gregor: "Am I a joke to you?"

 

[Mattb124]

Why not? He’s absolutely good enough defensively already. I think he has the potential to be the best sub-6’ defensive player in the league.

If we luck into Celebrini, then probably Eklund fits better at wing, but for now let him cook.

Agreed. In his short stint, Eklund has looked excellent at C.

 

[Jargon]

Agreed. In his short stint, Eklund has looked excellent at C.

He may have looked BEST at C. He’s had great games obviously, but I thought at C he was consistently visible and periodically dominating, arguably better over the course of a game than he has been on wing, I think.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

If Couture and Hertl are healthy, I'm putting Eklund back to the wing. I'd rather him be in the top six instead of centering a 3rd line or moving one of the vets to wing for him to center a 2nd line. Next year, I still would want Eklund on wing under most circumstances.

 

[Gecklund]

If Couture and Hertl are healthy, I'm putting Eklund back to the wing. I'd rather him be in the top six instead of centering a 3rd line or moving one of the vets to wing for him to center a 2nd line. Next year, I still would want Eklund on wing under most circumstances.

I’d be okay with putting Eklund and Couture together and moving Couture to Eklund’s wing. At least try it out.

 

[Barrie22]

Couture is at the point in his career where it would be best to move him to wing.

 

[Jargon]

Yeah, honestly, Couture on Eklund’s wing might be great for both players. Couture can be unleashed as a sniper where I can see him having a bit of a Pavelski track, and if Eklund can maintain his success as a center (3 pts in 2 games…) that’s a huge win for us. Top 6 wingers are gettable, top 6 centers are much more valuable.

 

[landshark]

Marc-Eduoard Gregor: "Am I a joke to you?"

 

[Mattb124]

Yeah, honestly, Couture on Eklund’s wing might be great for both players. Couture can be unleashed as a sniper where I can see him having a bit of a Pavelski track, and if Eklund can maintain his success as a center (3 pts in 2 games…) that’s a huge win for us. Top 6 wingers are gettable, top 6 centers are much more valuable.

In his games back, I have noticed that Couture seems to have an aversion to shooting the puck - esp on the PP. There have been quite a few times where he received a pass, seemed to have an open lane for a shot, and then passed it off. Doesn't seem like he is feeling it yet.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Nice piece of business for Montreal with Monahan. That’s what cap flexibility can get you.

 

[Sharkz4Fun]

Nice piece of business for Montreal with Monahan. That’s what cap flexibility can get you.

Yup. Taking on bonafide NHLers on bad contracts along with high assets proves to be better than giving up assets on fringe NHLers hoping they turn it around in the future so you can get some assets once again. Will this be the trade that makes MG learn?

 

[Hodge]

Yup. Taking on bonafide NHLers on bad contracts along with high assets proves to be better than giving up assets on fringe NHLers hoping they turn it around in the future so you can get some assets once again. Will this be the trade that makes MG learn?

Damn, why didn't Mike Grier just acquire $6 million cap dumps with the $0 in cap space the previous regime left for him? What an idiot.

 

[Sharkz4Fun]

Damn, why didn't Mike Grier just acquire $6 million cap dumps with the $0 in cap space the previous regime left for him? What an idiot.

Lets see: Kunins 2.7 + Burroughs 1.1 + Bennings 1.2 + Lindbloms 2.5 (with dollars here and there) = 7.5-7.8m. + Their current 2.2 and all the random contracts they've signed here and there and that's at least 10m of possible fun money that Grier has largely wasted. That's just the FA side of things (since you like to talk about numbers so much. Hodge, you really missed a career opportunity of mathematician), but ZERO DOLLARS!

I know the next one: "What was Grier supposed to DO!? Sign Sharks ice employees!?!?!?"

(Notice how Granlund, (cap dump on a iffy contract/playing situation) has been Grier's "best" addition in his GM career.)