I spend way too much time thinking about potential Sharks rosters

Équipe: 2019-20 Sharks de San Jose

Date de création initiale: 3 avr. 2019

Publié: 10 avr. 2019

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

1. I feel like it's pretty well established that San Jose's biggest problem is its goal tending (or lack thereof this season >.<) and imo having a strong 2nd goalie to relieve the pressure on Jones & take more games than Dell has (understandably) been trusted with would help tremendously. (I also think that changing out the goalie coaching staff over the off season should be a priority for the Sharks - that both Dell and Jones fell off a cliff at the same time speaks of larger issues than just the players.) I really like Nilsson and feel like he'd do well in San Jose - and the team has to do something to keep its Swede tally up if Karlsson, Karlsson, and Nyquist all leave :P

2. Logan Couture is a competent center but I feel like he's a much more effective winger. Shifting him back to the wing means bringing in another center & I like a lot of things about Nelson. I think adding him to the 2nd line would do great things for the Sharks (of course, another option would be to re-sign Nyquist for 6 million and keep Couture at the center - I went this route for the reasons above and also it keeps that 2020 second in play for the Sharks if they don't hit the finals this year)

3. Yes, Jumbo is getting severely underpaid here, but he has expressed a willingness to take a pay cut before & in this scenario I would put some easily attainable performance bonuses in place regarding point production (say, 30) and games played (half the season or so) to compensate for the lowered base salary.

4. I know that it looks like I'm over the cap here, but I wanted to include all the options for the 4th line and the 3rd right defense pairing because I think that the Sharks have some options there, depending on how training camp goes over the summer. Without the extra bodies in place the cap hit goes down significantly, which leaves some wiggle room to match any potential offer sheets on Meier or Labanc or for deadline trading shenanigans.

5. The Detroit and Dallas trades are more or less placeholders - I think those players could wind up on a variety of teams but those two would make a certain amount of sense to me, personally.

Thoughts? Disagreements? I'd be delighted to talk!

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