Expect GM Mike Grier to Reward His Young Team
Jim Biringer of NHLRumors.com, Full Press NHL, and RG Media joined TSN Radio in Montreal on Thursday and was asked if the San Jose Sharks will likely be a team that may add on the trade Deadline.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Host: “Let’s exit west quickly. A number of speak about how these Sharks need to add on the trade deadline for such a young team. Is that this something that you may see happening?”
Jim Biringer: “Yes, absolutely. I could definitely see them doing, and I believe they’re taking that next step. And it helps when you may have Macklin Celebrini doing what he’s doing on pace, like 130 points, and so they accelerated that rebuild.
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But they’d some lean years there in San Jose. They were the doormat for a little bit bit. And also you get those top prospects, and Will Smith and Macklin Celebrini playing rather well. And now they’re getting goaltending, and so they added along the best way.
Now, defensively, they don’t really have anybody signed the subsequent couple of years, in order that’s probably an area they’ll look so as to add. I do know they were tied to Dougie Hamilton. Dougie Hamilton said, No. He didn’t need to go to San Jose. Is that something he reconsiders? But as of at once, Recent Jersey with the Luke Hughes injury, will not be moving him, unless they really tail off and so they just say, ‘All right, we’re going to punt on the season, and so they’re going to start out selling assets much more.’
Because obviously, Ondrej Palat got moved to the Recent York Islanders, but San Jose’s taking that next step to where, ‘Okay, we didn’t think there could be a playoff team. We knew it could be higher, but I don’t think anybody expected this out of it.’ Now, they will still miss, but I believe it shows Mike Grier added Kiefer Sherwood.
If he goes and adds an Artemi Panarin or one other impact-type player, it tells the room, ‘Hey, I consider in you. I consider on this group that we put together, and we’re going to go get offer you guys a shot to go make the playoffs, because that’s what it’s all about.’
And everybody says rebuild and retool and all that. But sometimes these general managers say, ‘Hey, what? It’s year-to-year; if we have now a likelihood to win it now, we’re going to go do it.’ And I do consider Mike Grier goes to be aggressive enough to try this and reward this group.”
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NHLRumors.com Note: The San Jose Sharks have been constructing through the draft, but Grier has been adding along the best way with players like Yaroslav Askarov, Tyler Toffoli, Alexander Wennberg, Barclay Goodrow, Dmitry Orlov, and others to assist this young Sharks group perform this season. It has been a few years of heartache for this group, but Ryan Warsofsky has gotten this group playing the appropriate way. Let’s see what happens on the trade deadline, however the expectation is that the Sharks will add.
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