Équipe: 2022-23 Sharks de San Jose

Date de création initiale: 17 nov. 2021

Publié: 18 nov. 2021

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

This is a lot of movement and change, but it makes sense… to me anyway.
Kane starts all this and is the key to next season success or failure.
In this scenario Kane is presented an ultimatum, agree to mutually terminate his contract or we bury him in the minors for the remainder of his deal. This should work because if he fails to show we then have cause to suspend him without pay.
The players association may balk at this but our offer is pay his deal in full over 8 years minus his roster bonuses, this equates to 15 mil or 1.875 a year. he then gets to go elsewhere and play for more money so this would end up being a win win for both the club and him. this is similar to the deal Richards took in LA.
with the majority of his cap hit off the books we can now look at building on the progress we made this year!
Simek, Labanc, and Bonino are traded to free up cap space and spots for our younger players.
chmevelski, Blichfeld, are traded to give them a chance at making an NHL roster because i just don’t see them making our lineup now or in the future.
pedersen is a waiver wire pickup or he plays in the AHL next season as he has not been good for us this year but has some talent.

Offensively
Pavelski addition is a temporary placeholder till the prospects are ready to step up. he will sign a 1-2 year deal and add leadership and bring in fans plus he’s still producing enough to make his spot in the top 6 viable short term.
Eklund returns and plays in the top 6, obviously!
Weatherby steps up for a season as our 3C till Bordeleau steals that spot next year.
Noah, Nieto, Leonard, Barabanov, Balcers Merkley and Viel all battle for playing time and roster spots for the year and by seasons end we will know who from this group will entrench theirselves as players in our future plans or be let go, traded in the 2023 offseason or end up buried in the minors next year.
I thought about bringing up Gushin, Raska, Robins, Bordeleau, Weisblatt, Coe, and Reedy but i feel like all would benefit from a year with the Cuda.
Next year all of these guys will be pushing for spots with the big club.

Defensively
This is a lot easier as we return most of our 2021 players
Ferraro and Burns remain out top pair.
Karlsson remains our 3rd D and mainstay on the 2nd pairing, with Rookie Merkley as our 3rd pair RD and power play specialist.
LD Middleton and Knyzhov could be flip flopped depending on chemistry. Kinazev and Hatakka are considered for bottom pairing but here i opted to have them get 1 more year in AHL growing their game.
Vlasic is relegated to healthy scratch due to his diminished play. it’s this or he will have to retire. i would prefer to wait till the 23 offseason to buy him out if it comes to that. i’m really hoping he retires during the 2022 offseason.
Goal
this stays the same at the NHL level
i opt to resign Melnichuyk for 1 more year along with Chrona and Gaudreau. Gaudreau will play in the OHL or WHL for the year and Chrona, Melnichuyk, and Edmonds fight for playing time with the weaker of the 3 getting starts in the ECHL
I kept Melnichuyk only because he is the best option for emergency goalie till the others get a little more seasoning.

what does everyone think? i know i can get long winded with my descriptions

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