Speculation: 2023-24-25 Sharks Roster Discussion

[gaucholoco3]

p.s.: the sharks OT strategy is mindbogglingly dumb. Why are they so damn impatient??? In OT, when you get posession, you should NEVER give it up. even if you just play catch for 5 minutes. The whole key is patience, you speed up the ice, circle and make the other team chase you. Do that for 2 minutes but never shoot. Never force anything. Eventually, the other team will be exhausted from a 2+ minute shift running around chasing you. In the meantime, you change twice. Then you have fresh legs full of energy against an opposition that cannt move. it wont be long before you have a back door tap in. hell, even a great save is OK, because the opponent wont be able to do anything even if they get posession as they will be in full muscle failure and you will be fresh. Game after game, you see the sharks get posession in OT then try to immediately force something with somewhat low percentage. Sure, you get a shot, but then its saved and against a good team, you never touch the puck again. I am befuddled how dumb they are...

The biggest culprit for being impatient is the player everyone has been upset didn’t start OT against the Jets. Celebrini has not been good in OT and has been directly responsible for multiple OT goals against including the last one where he rushed for a low percentage chance to then lose possession and then get walked in the D zone by Caulfield.

Celebrini has been great all season but even with the OT winner against Detroit he has directly cost the Sharks 3 points with his play in OT this season.

 

[Juxtaposer]

How is it news that Grier has an asking price and is sticking to it at this moment?

Because if you stick with your price and nobody pays it you lose Kunin for nothing. Usually bad teams will sell their pending UFAs to whomever makes the highest bid instead of losing them for nothing.

 

[Star Platinum]

Because if you stick with your price and nobody pays it you lose Kunin for nothing. Usually bad teams will sell their pending UFAs to whomever makes the highest bid instead of losing them for nothing.

It's all just posturing. Whatever deal he ends up making, he'll claim his price was met.

 

[LadyStanley]

Shen has his eye on a couple of eastern D, but doesn't think the Sharks have the assets to acquire. A few lower round picks for possible returns on a few pending UFAs.

 

[Star Platinum]

Shen has his eye on a couple of eastern D, but doesn't think the Sharks have the assets to acquire. A few lower round picks for possible returns on a few pending UFAs.

An NHL scout, who’s a big Ferraro fan, agreed with SJHN’s assessment that the team-first blueliner just hasn’t been able to get away from the bad defensive habits that playing for a perpetual loser can engrain in you.

For example, Ferraro has never developed high-end patience with the puck, but who can blame him when he’s been under siege in the defensive zone his entire career?

“Making too much money for his role,” one NHL scout, who sees Ferraro as a bottom-pairing defender, said.

 

[Hodge]

Grier is absolutely correct to set a 2nd as the asking price for Kunin, if not a 2nd + another pick. How many forwards are there on the trade market who can rack up 20 goals and 200 hits in a season, play center and wing, kill penalties, drop the gloves and shoot right? Every contender should want him in their bottom six.

 

[Star Platinum]

Grier is absolutely correct to set a 2nd as the asking price for Kunin, if not a 2nd + another pick. How many forwards are there on the trade market who can rack up 20 goals and 200 hits in a season, play center and wing, kill penalties, drop the gloves and shoot right? Every contender should want him in their bottom six.

Kunin has 2 points since January and has never come close to scoring 20 goals in a season

 

[DarrylshutzSydor]

Grier is busy cleaning the wheels on his BMW, since when he was a player for the Sharks he drove the same car forever was hard on the brakes, and never cleaned his wheels....... no attention to detail.

 

[Hodge]

Kunin has 2 points since January and has never come close to scoring 20 goals in a season

He's still on a 15 goal pace this season and averaged 17 goals per 82 games in his three seasons before joining the Sharks. Don't forget that Kunin is a former 15th overall pick who has been traded for a 2nd+4th+Bonino and a 3rd in the past. The league has valued him before and interested teams will realize he's back to being the player he was in Nashville and Minnesota now that he's fully recovered from ACL surgery.

Physical forechecking wingers and right-shot PKing centers always command more than people expect at the deadline. Kunin happens to be both.

 

[weastern bias]

I also love an ineffective forechecker who is bad on the penalty kill and in the faceoff circle, can't wait to lock him down for the stretch run, please take my top-60 pick for him, I can't secure his services fast enough

What's that? He's also a defensive liability and hasn't scored a goal in over a month? Please stop, I don't want to get TOO aroused in public, let's make it a 1st rounder call it a deal