Quoting: Foppa21
From an outsider looking in (who knows nothing about Wilson's inclinations), they objectively need a lot more than that. 6th worst GA, 5th worst GF, and not much money coming off the books for a while, so without knowing much about the team, it looks like they're staring down a revamp of sorts. Again though, that's from a total outsider who only watches from afar.
Sharks fans seem to be split on what we should do. Doesnt matter. Our GM is not a rebuild GM. When we missed the playoffs in 2015 (the only other time we missed the playoffs since 2003) many analysts and fans were saying it was rebuild time. Instead Wilson added a couple vets (Joel Ward and Paul Martin) and a couple more at tdl (Spaling and Polak, also Reimer as backup) and we went to game six of the finals that year. This team is arguably better than that one was, Karlsson, Couture, Hertl and Kane are in their prime and despite last season Burns is still an excellent offensive dman. So some help at RW and a solid veteran goalie like Greiss or Khudobin and maybe a 3C if Jumbo doesnt return to SJ (he almost certainly will)
Im very confident this is a playoff bound team next season with the right additions even with our limited cap around 14 mil with Labanc to sign still. We have two picks in the top 35 and i can almost guarantee at least one of those picks is in play and with the flat cap Wilson should be able to add a top six RW fairly easily with many teams looking to shed salaries. Marcus Sorensen is almost certainly gone. Potential prospects in play are True and Hamaliuk, possibly Kniazev (see Pasichnuk signing)
If we miss the playoffs next year you can add me to the rebuild list but until then I am confident and supportive of his team to contend next year. Just my two cents, I think
@Klara and
@papishark are on roughly the same page.
Being in a smaller non-traditional market the Sharks cannot really afford a long rebuild as that wouldnt bode well woth fans and particularly so with Covid. Not to mention all the NTCs and NMCs hanging around.