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Created by: Bias_it_self

Team: 2022-23 San Jose Sharks

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 11, 2022

Published: Jan. 13, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

With Kane's contract termination (pending still) we'll most likely be able to keep Hertl and resign him. If he's resigning with the Sharks it would probably be a short term deal to see if the Sharks improve soon, if they don't he'll likely ask privately for a trade and the Sharks would get even more value for him. Being too good to be bad and too bad to be good, the 2022 1st is around 11-15 overall. In this situation with no 2nd and seeing how underrated he is on NHL's central scouting's North American Skaters rank, DW Jr. probably selects Frank Nazar.

With moving Bonino at the draft to a Vancouver team looking to bounce back, Sharks open up a chance for several players to compete for the 3C spot. Bordeleau, Robins, Nazar, Reedy, and Chmelevski all battle for it similar to the 4C race last camp; Bordeleau comes ahead an plays opening night. He'll know he has to keep pushing himself because there's players eyeing his spot, so it'll be a season long drive to do better.

Vlasic buyout to open up more cap, penalty isn't that bad actually. Burns can be bout out next year if he preforms poorly the 2022-2023 season.

Top priorities throughout the season would be (in order of what I think is most important):
1. Meier extension, do not let it get close to QO.
2. Make sure prospects develop smoothly without hiccups.
3. Give rookies lots of playing time.
4. Hope for Labanc bounce back to grow trade value.
5. Hill extension.
6. R. Merkley extension.
7. Knyzhov strong return season.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bordeleau, Thomas	3	$950,000
Öberg, Linus	3	$900,000
Young, Alex	2	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Middleton, Jake	2	$1,000,000
Ferraro, Mario	3	$4,000,000
Blichfeld, Joachim	2	$750,000
Chmelevski, Alexander	2	$780,000
Dahlén, Jonathan	2	$3,500,000
Knyzhov, Nikolai	1	$1,000,000
Leonard, John	1	$875,000
Melnichuk, Alexei	2	$875,000
Merkley, Nick	2	$875,000
Meloche, Nicolas	2	$750,000
Pasichnuk, Brinson	2	$750,000
Halbgewachs, Jayden	1	$800,000
Gregor, Noah	2	$950,000
Gadjovich, Jonah	1	$750,000
Gallant, Zachary	1	$750,000
McGrew, Jacob	1	$750,000
Sawchenko, Zach	1	$800,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hertl, Tomas	4	$8,250,000
Megna, Jaycob	1	$800,000
Barabanov, Alexander	3	$3,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Nazar, Frank		3	$925,000

Trades

SJS

2023 4th round pick (OTT)

OTT

Simek, Radim

Additional Details:

Hard hitting defenseman that can help out Ottawa on the back end as prospects develop.

SJS

2022 5th round pick (VAN)

VAN

Bonino, Nick

Additional Details:

Offensive depth that will help out on defense.

SJS

2022 6th round pick (COL)

COL

Nieto, Matt

Additional Details:

Support to help the PK. Probably not a player to be played consistently, but if COVID strikes he'll be a reliable option.

SJS

2022 5th round pick (PIT)

PIT

Leonard, John

Additional Details:

Give him an opportunity with a fresh start. Pittsburg tends to get the most out of their players and Leonard would be a younger addition to keep them going. He's solid defensively, just needs to put it together offensively

Buyouts

Martin Jones: $2,416,667
Marc-Édouard Vlasic: $3,687,500

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$82,500,000	$70,007,500	$0	$442,500	$12,492,500

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Eklund, William $894,167$894,167 LW RFA - 4	Hertl, Tomas $8,250,000$8,250,000 C UFA - 8	Meier, Timo $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Dahlén, Jonathan $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW UFA	Couture, Logan $8,000,000$8,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 5	Barabanov, Alexander $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Balcers, Rūdolfs $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Bordeleau, Thomas $950,000$950,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Labanc, Kevin $4,725,000$4,725,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
	Weatherby, Jasper $842,500$842,500 ($82,500$82K) C UFA - 1	Merkley, Nick $875,000$875,000 RW, C UFA
Raska, Adam $848,333$848,333 ($60,000$60K) LW, RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Ferraro, Mario $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 4	Burns, Brent $5,280,000$5,280,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Reimer, James $2,250,000$2,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Middleton, Jake $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Hill, Adin $2,175,000$2,175,000 G UFA - 1
Knyzhov, Nikolai $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Merkley, Ryan $863,333$863,333 ($300,000$300K) RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Gregor, Noah $950,000$950,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
Viel, Jeffrey $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Eklund, W.		Hertl, T.		Meier, T.
	Karlsson, E.		Merkley, R.

Power Play 2
Dahlén, J.		Couture, L.
	Bordeleau, T.		Burns, B.

Penalty Kill 1
	Hertl, T.	Balcers, R.
	Ferraro, M.	Burns, B.

Penalty Kill 2
	Couture, L.	Weatherby, J.
	Middleton, J.	Karlsson, E.

Jan. 13, 2022 at 3:41 a.m.

Rob32sjsharks

Joined: Apr. 2020

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pretty spot on, i feel Middleton will be traded to open a spot for either Kinazev or Hatakka, or to keep vlasic one last year and buy him out in 2023 when we will need the cap space, i see knyzhov taking a shorter deal looking as he might miss this whole season and who knows if he will be the same player next year.
and Burns will play out his contract in full, mainly because when his deal ends we will need to pay Eklund and Bordeleau. and 8 mil could be split so both players get bridge deals Eklund 4 yr 6 mil Bordeleau 4 yr 5 mil

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Jan. 13, 2022 at 5:42 a.m.

Claesson4Norris

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Last thing Ottawa needs is a not very good dman who is "hard hitting".

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Jan. 13, 2022 at 8:07 a.m.

sensonfire

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Ottawa is not spending a 4th round pick on a cap dump that would be our 7th best LD.

Try again.

Jan. 13, 2022 at 8:33 a.m.

SankFeravalli

Joined: Nov. 2015

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The Avs are pretty deep on the wings right now, and will get deeper if they add a top/middle-six scoring forward. That said, Sakic has a bit of a history with bringing back former players and the Avs PK is a disaster right now. I’d love to have Nieto back in a depth/PK role and I think that price is pretty reasonable.

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Jan. 13, 2022 at 11:47 a.m.

Bias_it_self

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Quoting: Claesson4Norris

Last thing Ottawa needs is a not very good dman who is "hard hitting".

It was more of a simplification of Simek. He’s looked good as of late and can shut down offense at the blue line. Can help bring down Chabots constant cardio.

Jan. 13, 2022 at 3:20 p.m.

NMAvsFan

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Edited Jan. 13, 2022 at 10:04 p.m.

So your supposition is that Hertl is going to forgo the possibility of a long-term contract in FA to "see how things go" with the Sharks. Why would he do that? What if he signs a two-year deal and things don't work out? Now he's two years older (30) and may not get term from another team. Or if he gets injured sometime over that contract? What if it's career-ending? With guaranteed contracts, players are all about security and Hertl is right at that point where he could reasonably ask for a 7-8 year deal in the $7-8M range. Forgoing that kind of security just to see if the Sharks can get back to being a playoff team, let alone a contender and soon is, to say the least, risky. I mean, honestly, would you do that?

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Jan. 13, 2022 at 3:58 p.m.

lrw2105

Joined: Jun. 2021

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Imagine Hertl is looking for the Landeskog contract w/a team he believes can contend - 7x8 or 8x7 depending on whether the signing team can give the extra year.

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