All obviously my opinion. Would love to hear yours.

Can't see us moving Bortuzzo for so little. Not that he's worth a lot or anything, but he makes so little money that he's worth more on our roster than whatever that sixth round pick will end up being.

Don’t you guys need money for Dunn?

Farm system: I think the AHL squad isn't very high end or crazy promising but there are a LOT of guys down there that still have potential and could make the NHL leap one day. The odds that we see a 3-4 of them in the NHL at some point is very high, albeit not in top 6 roles. Unfortunately though the 'Cuda were awful last year and need to improve for our prospects to develop and thrive.
Overall: B-

Trades: Not a lot to report on here to be honest but that could change at any time. Although the Donato and Dubnyk trades were technically connected, I'll rate them individually: Donato trade gets an A- from me. He's a very capable forward and at the end of the Day Donato's ceiling is likely way, way higher than whatever that 3rd round pick will end up being. Good deal. The Dubnyk trade I just personally don't like. Dubnyk is aging, and still not worth his cap hit at 50% retained based on the season he just had. I'd love to be proven wrong here though. This one gets a D+. All of the draft day trades were okay I thought, but the Rangers fleeced us with the 5th for 2 7ths trade so I wasn't too happy with that either.
Overall: C

Coaching: I don't love Boogey, but he was the obvious and safe choice and I'm fine with that. Adding Thompson is nice too, but I've heard some sketchy stuff from other coaching staff. The coaching in the AHL needs to be sorted out as well to ensure they don't completely stink next year. Overall it's not bad though.
Overall: B-

FA: Doug really **** the bed on this one. I'm not gonna lie. Getting Nieto at league min is a very very small silver lining, but otherwise he made no decisions that I liked. The Labanc signing isn't good in my opinion, Doug missed out on great options like Smith, Toffoli, Fast etc., and he's absolutely log jammed the bottom 6 too. This was the EXACT time this team needed to be taking advantage of the market and Doug put his hands back, did nothing, and signed yet ANOTHER poor contract to the team. My grade is gonna be harsh but I'm really not happy with what happened this year.
Overall: F

I feel like the labanc signing was happening whether or not he had a good or bad year, props to DW for holding up his end of the bargain even if he didnt really want to after this season

Agree with everything you said. Cuda will get better. Merkley, Leonard, etc will all get there and be good talents. Also true, blichfield, etc are coming back. Also have Roy sommer back helps.

The only reason I’d didn’t give FA a Lower grade was. I get where Doug is coming from. Our cap situation is well... complicated and having to sign labanc took some more money away. He didn’t want to take a risk. But we needed to take a risk. And the nieto deal is a bargain which elevated it from a D in my book.

It's hard to not expect DW to have done something with so many UFAs available at such a discount. Maybe he still has a trick up his sleeve, but it sucks to see guys who could really help the Sharks sign cheap deals for other teams. Sorenson needs to get traded, Marleau provides essentially the same production but is half the cost.

Steen and Tarasenko will be starting the season on LTIR and Steen's injury hasn't progressed since the bubble so if he stays there indefinitely then no. But even if he doesn't, we'll need to make additional trades to get cap compliant other than just moving Bortuzzo. Would be easier to move Bozak at half retained.