Confirmed Signing with Link: [SJS] G Yaroslav Askarov signs extension with San Jose (2 years, $2M AAV)

[Soundgarden]

Ummm...Saros hasn't turned 30 yet. He doesn't turn 30 until next April!

Even better haha.

 

[Shark Finn]

so at the end it was hertl vs askarov...

And who won?

 

[Runner77]

So Askarov went from earning like 75k this year, to earning 5 million in the next 3 years. Sometimes pays off to play hard ball.

If you don’t Askarov, you don’t receivarov.

I’ll see myself out.

 

[Michoulicious]

I'm sure we'll be fine. There are teams where Matthew Wood would be their no.1, he's probably our 4-5th best prospect.

Matthew Wood? lol

 

[elmaco]

his athleticism will inevitable start to decline. He’s cooked, bro

Dude the best goalie last season is 35.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I think 2027 would still be a bit optimistic, but possible.

We have zero clear top 4 d-men. Three that are 4/5 (Ferraro, Walman, Ceci). Dickinson, Mukamadulin, Thrun, and Pohlkamp aren't too far out, but if we had two #4 guys from that group, it'd be a bummer, but probably realistic. And not sure any are quite top four next season.

In Celebrini and Smith, I think we've got two first line forwards in two years, and Eklund and Tofolli as second line forwards. Zetterlunds a perfect middle six tweener. Musty may get there. Bottom six looking pretty solid.

We'll add another stud in 2025 draft, but our young guys need time, some further purchased depth, and critically a #1 d-man. I've got my eyes on Matthew Schaefer, but even if he's Drew Doughty (99% chance he aint), it's still going to take another year or two.

I agree. I'm excited for the Sharks and love Grier's vision, but '26 is too soon. My guess is the Sharks start making some noise in '28. But to do so, they're gonna need a really good young D already at 22-23 y/o. I can already tell you are not the type to grow impatient if SJ is still not quite there by the end of '27 regular season.

Blackwood or Vanacek are good enough for this season, but your real foundation for now is the bottom-six, imo. Team defense and structure all the way. Grier knows what's up.

Your top-six will shake out and should be the least of your worries right now. Work on the D and develop a 2C.

 

[Soundgarden]

Matthew Wood? lol

Yes, the guy who was ranked 4th for NA skaters by central scouting, he's a good prospect.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Yeah because Saros is the difference between them beating the Stars/Avs round 1 which who will be their opponent if they get top 3 in the Central over the course of that contract. That team couldn't score enough of Arthur Silovs to win a playoff series but yeah they'll goaltend their way through the West is surely gonna do wonders for Nashville. This was the same shit on the Saros extension thread and people saying that Nashville needed to re-sign Saros as a bridge to Askarov lmao

Which is why they went out and signed two goal scorers to address that need. You do realize Saros is what kept them in that series, yes? He was among their best players.

Trying to trade him and hoping a kid who hasn't played more than five NHL games becomes him would be ridiculous. It's not guaranteed whatsoever but a team like San Jose can easily take that risk whereas Nashville can't.

 

[Michoulicious]

Yes, the guy who was ranked 4th for NA skaters by central scouting, he's a good prospect.

He was, but his D+1 was pretty meh with UConn.

 

[herzausstein]

He was, but his D+1 was pretty meh with UConn.

UConn sortof sucked and his goal count went up. Cant get assists if the rest of your team cant score. Id wait to see him with a competent team

 

[kp61c]

nice to see a player to hit back when a nhl club decides to take a big stinky dump on him

 

[Soundgarden]

He was, but his D+1 was pretty meh with UConn.

Which is why he's often considered our 4-5 best prospect.

nice to see a player to hit back when a nhl club decides to take a big stinky dump on him

He needed another full season of playing before he's ready to play backup, hardly the end of the world. I understand him wanting to move, but let's not act like Nashville were acting malicious towards him.

 

[Patty Ice]

Which is why he's often considered our 4-5 best prospect.

I wish they would have signed him and get him playing in Milwaukee. I think it's a better environment for him to develop. I understand the logic of keeping him in college for free development but I think he's outgrown it despite not being dominant production wise. I suppose that is enough justification to keep him there however.

 

[Soundgarden]

I wish they would have signed him and get him playing in Milwaukee. I think it's a better environment for him to develop. I understand the logic of keeping him in college for free development but I think he's outgrown it despite not being dominant production wise. I suppose that is enough justification to keep him there however.

He did get traded so we'll see if that helps this year.

 

[kp61c]

Which is why he's often considered our 4-5 best prospect.


He needed another full season of playing before he's ready to play backup, hardly the end of the world. I understand him wanting to move, but let's not act like Nashville were acting malicious towards him.

Signing saros for 20 years and a backup for 2? Nashville decided to take a big dump on Askarov and Askarov was in his right to reciprocate.

 

[Patty Ice]

He did get traded so we'll see if that helps this year.

You mean transferring to Minnesota? Eh, it will be more of the same. I think he needs to get straight into the pro game.

 

[Soundgarden]

Signing saros for 20 years and a backup for 2? Nashville decided to take a big dump on Askarov and Askarov was in his right to reciprocate.

Wedgwood is beatable, he's a stop gap vet backup, he's easily waivable when the time comes.

 

[Seras]

Kids gonna lit up like the mall xmas tree from the 90's

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Kids gonna lit up like the mall xmas tree from the 90's

I think that's what he wants

 

[Sota Popinski]

The Sharks are absolutely schooling everyone on how to do a proper rebuild

Easy to say after they won the lottery. They have to start winning before you can actually call it a rebuild. At this point, they've basically just done the demolition.

 

[Sparkleton]

Easy to say after they won the lottery. They have to start winning before you can actually call it a rebuild. At this point, they've basically just done the demolition.

Fair about the lottery but master demolition with those long term contracts. Remember when they had Burns/Karlsson/Jones as unmovable, Hertl signed long term, and Meier being in this terrible qualifying position? It looked like they were stuck in purgatory. People legitimately felt bad for the Sharks.

The worst of those moves above was Burns but he freed up room for Karlsson to put up enough numbers to be moved for minimal retention and a pick that was traded up into Sam Dickinson.

I wasn’t sure about Grier when he started but I’m fully on the train. If you just showed me the before and after from the roster he inherited without context I’d be doing a spit-take.

 

[Sota Popinski]

Fair about the lottery but master demolition with those long term contracts. Remember when they had Burns/Karlsson/Jones as unmovable, Hertl signed long term, and Meier being in this terrible qualifying position? It looked like they were stuck in purgatory. People legitimately felt bad for the Sharks.

The worst of those moves above was Burns but he freed up room for Karlsson to put up enough numbers to be moved for minimal retention and a pick that was traded up into Sam Dickinson.

I wasn’t sure about Grier when he started but I’m fully on the train. If you just showed me the before and after from the roster he inherited without context I’d be doing a spit-take.

I remember it all. I have followed the sharks quite closely for the past 10 years. He got what he could for the contracts he inherited from Wilson. I am just not that impressed with the returns on any trades he's made. I'm not trashing him, he's only been in the job for two years. But it's a bit of a leap to me to say 'the Sharks are schooling everyone on how to do a rebuild' when they're the defending worst team in the league and they haven't made the playoffs in five years

 

[Sparkleton]

I remember it all. I have followed the sharks quite closely for the past 10 years. He got what he could for the contracts he inherited from Wilson. I am just not that impressed with the returns on any trades he's made. I'm not trashing him, he's only been in the job for two years. But it's a bit of a leap to me to say 'the Sharks are schooling everyone on how to do a rebuild' when they're the defending worst team in the league and they haven't made the playoffs in five years

I wrote a 20 minute responses to this and a Dominoes ad from this site on my phone crashed the browser and the entire message.

I don’t have it in me to type it again and sure as hell am not buying their horrible pizza. Maybe in another life we can talk again.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Ironically, staying in Nashville would have been better for the development and career of Askarov, assuming both sides were willing to commit to each other.

It makes me wonder if the trade was just as much about Nashville shopping (or listening) on him for the past two years as it was about fast tracking his career. If you look at the current state of the league, tandems are in vogue. Gone are the days where most starters play 65-70 games. If he was willing to sign this kind of extension, a tandem could have worked cap wise in Nashville.

I suspect that it it could have been more of a case where he knew he was going to be traded, and wanted the process expedited.

 

[Patty Ice]

Ironically, staying in Nashville would have been better for the development and career of Askarov, assuming both sides were willing to commit to each other.

It makes me wonder if the trade was just as much about Nashville shopping (or listening) on him for the past two years as it was about fast tracking his career. If you look at the current state of the league, tandems are in vogue. Gone are the days where most starters play 65-70 games. If he was willing to sign this kind of extension, a tandem could have worked cap wise in Nashville.

I suspect that it it could have been more of a case where he knew he was going to be traded, and wanted the process expedited.

So, hypothetically, they are splitting starts. Saros is being paid $8mil a year. Say Askarov hits his potential, wouldn't Askarov look for just as much if he is working the same load? Now you are paying $16 mil a year on goaltending. Doesn't seem efficient use of cap space. If you have an elite goalie like Saros, the smart thing to do is what they are currently doing. Sign a good backup to play about 25% of the starts to relieve Saros and pay him $2mil a year.