Mark E.

@K_Nick_97 @AlDaugereaux Gifted? We still got the equivalent of two first round picks which then turned into Askarov, the top goalie prospect at the time. That was literally the best Grier could do in that situation.

I will forever be furious with Mike Girer for essentially gifting Hertl to vegas and eating salary for his entire contract for the privilege of doing so. Absolutely idiotic deal.

@pearlosnhlpow @NHLRumourReport No he is not. Misa will have a huge jump next season and is far more valuable to the Sharks future than Eklund.

@NHLRumourReport I would go with Misa over Eklund. Eklund is turning into one of the best young shutdown forwards in the league, and they seem to value that quite a bit in San Jose, being a very analytics-driven team and all

Jeff Marek: Re Sharks: If they keep the pick, I don't necessarily think they take a defenseman, but if they take a forward, I think they use one of their other young players, William Eklund might be the obvious one here, to go out and get a defenseman - Sekeres & Price (5/8)

@2MINIHULK I think the Sharks are “closer” than people think. If Asky can take a leap forward and the Sharks can bring in 2 good dmen, that along with our young players having another year of experience we could easily at least be a division contender next year.

@markEmarkSJS I thinl he would if the Sharks were close to being contenders

All of us.

It’s the East being massively overrated. Anyone who knows hockey knew A) the Pens suck and B) the Flyers aren’t a real threat. These are super mediocre teams that had inflated reg season numbers.

@maplemisa Nah when you’ve been playing all your life the smell is muted.

i have always wondered if hockey players get grossed out by the smell of their own gear, surely it reeks

@pepitoluver Yea let’s definitely delete the sport because an old creepy guy was gross via Zoom. Absolutely represents the sport as a whole and everyone associated with it.

just delete the sport from existence at this point if men think they can behave like this ON CAMERA. fucking embarrassing & even more embarrassing for this dumb twitter acc to act like it’s a funny moment & not a guy harrassing a woman a third of his age in a professional setting

@Adamkblat 0 chance this happens. Everyone knows there is a decent drop off after 9/10. Sharks would miss out on all the high end d-men and the elite level forward in Stenberg to get more mid-first round picks? How does it make sense for the Sharks? (It doesn’t)

The team that makes the most sense to trade up to second is the St. Louis Blues. They have picks 11 and 15 plus Ivar Stenberg's brother Otto is already part of the organization.

@Blutch88 Well I agree in the Dellandrea deal not being needed but the Sharks have plenty of cap space and 6–8M is no longer a big contract. With the cap at 104M contracts are going to grow.

@markEmarkSJS Sherwood got almost 6mil for 1 good season at 30yo, dellandrea was given a raise when he should have been sent into the sun. I just hope the people speculating a kaprisov size contract for celebrini are wrong.

I agree! I don’t even care if he regresses to a 40 point guy like some people fear. Right shot, late bloomer who is in his prime right now not worn down from excessive minutes in his early 20’s. Sign him for 4-5 years, give him 10M. He’s new PP1 Dman and our top guy.

@CyclonePilot06 Yea we have with Zyuzin, Rathje and Stuart, but I assume you meant in recent era.

@markEmarkSJS Yeah… I get that hesitation entirely. Then again we haven’t ever drafted a D inside the top 10.

@HProductionsYYC @Buckfoston That’s every market outside of Toronto, NYR and Montreal.

@markEmarkSJS @Buckfoston When good*. Answered your own question there. They need to be good to generate revenue.

Totally not rigged: Chicago, New York, LA, San Jose, Toronto, and New York winning draft lotteries and not the small market teams losing the lottery over and over. Turns out the NHL lottery balls favor the ones helping the league’s bottom line.

@CyclonePilot06 I would love that too, but I honestly don’t have faith in the Sharks developing a high end dman. Would love to be wrong but I haven’t seen any signs of that opinion changing yet.

@markEmarkSJS PS. I also don’t care as much about immediate top pair impact from anyone older than 28. Would rather develop top pair D into our stars primes, and supplement them with middle and bottom pair D.

@Blutch88 Who are we giving huge piles of cash to? Name 1? Our highest contract right now is Toffoli at 6M and Orlov at 6.5M. Not a single Shark has been given a huge pile of cash. Is 40-50 pts for a dman low expectations these days? Have you seen the Sharks dman the last few seasons?

@markEmarkSJS Can we stop giving huge piles of cash for low expectations? None of the guys on the habs first line make 8mil, fkin Lane Hutson makes less than 9, can we take these guys as example instead of becoming the leafs 2.0?

@robert342176 Yea I think he settles as a 10-15 goal 40-50 pt dman. That is exactly what we need and worth 10M in my mind. Just not for full term. 4-5 years

@markEmarkSJS The 2 years he had before this year were really good! I badly wanted to get him! This year was unreal and not sustainable. I expect the next 2-3 years he lands around 40-50 points before he starts to regress but I’m 100% on board with Raddysh 9 mil 6 years!

@connorkief_ New going rate for a top pairing dman. Have you seen the new cap?

@markEmarkSJS 10M is insane what 😂

@CyclonePilot06 While I want to see those two in the NHL, I want immediate impact and Raddysh is that. A top pairing dman is worth 10M these days. No top pairing dman will be signing for 7M going forward.

@markEmarkSJS At 30 years old… 3 years at most. Also hard pass on $10M for one good season. I’ll give him $7m and not a penny more. Otherwise pass and just let Pohlkamp and Cagnoni run the offense for the time being.

@colejennett Yea that’s true, and he has made it sound like he wants to stay with the club that believed in him

@markEmarkSJS Hard to imagine TB doesn’t make the same offer, and staying in a no tax state hurts us

@bradybrouillett Exactly!

@markEmarkSJS Regressing to 40 points would still make him our best defenseman 😂

@HProductionsYYC @Buckfoston Untapped market? Hockey has been there for 35 years. In the late 90’s and early 00’s the Sharks held the records for longest sellout streaks. When good the Sharks have always been supported. This isn’t some untapped market.

@markEmarkSJS @Buckfoston It's an untapped market with lots of potential so yes it would definitely be a target to grow the league.