Sheng Peng will probably be an everyday contributor to NBC Sports activities California’s Sharks protection. You may learn extra of his protection on San Jose Hockey Now, take heed to him on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, and comply with 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 have a good time the Sharks having the No. 1 general choose of the draft.
San Jose Hockey Now had dinner Thursday evening with the household of a 2024 draft-eligible participant who have been on the identical Las Vegas-bound aircraft as Thornton.
Will the 1997 first general choose announce the 2024 first general choose? Keep tuned. …
We all know the Sharks will select Celebrini No. 1, and sure, in response to SJHN’s sources, the robust perception is he’ll flip professional for the 2024-25 marketing campaign. However who will the Sharks pick 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 discovered an enchanting 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 professional playoff workforce.
Ferraro was accessible in the course of the 2023 NHL commerce deadline, and the Sharks wished a first-round choose and a prospect in change … and so they nearly acquired it.
Elliotte Friedman previously has reported that the Carolina Hurricanes made a robust supply for Ferraro in 2022-23. A league supply confirmed that supply was a second-round choose and left-handed center Jack Drury.
A traditionally dangerous Sharks season later, the supply mused, “In the event that they commerce [Ferraro], it’s going to be for method 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 easy,” an NHL scout advised SJHN. “North-south winger, fairly good shot truly, simply doesn’t hit the online a ton or make a variety of performs. Can get sizzling occasionally and rating some. Bodily on forecheck.
“He’s a bottom-line wing, third line at his greatest. One track-minded with it. Skate, hit, change.”
Over the past 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 matches the profile of “arduous to play in opposition to” participant that Sharks common supervisor Mike Grier has focused on thus far this offseason, comparable 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 announced as head coach last week, however SJHN discovered from a number of sources that there was little communication between Grier and Quinn over the past two seasons — principally the period of their GM-head coach partnership.
The explanation for that’s unclear — that might be simply Grier’s administration type — however it definitely paints a distinct image of what was believed to be a lock-step Boston College-rooted relationship.
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