Ownership is pulling the strings here. Sharks will have to be creative as hell with cap this offseason but Hasso wants to spend to the cap as always and wants to compete right away. That's how Hasso has been since becoming majority owner. What makes it even harder is our GM has taken sick leave the entire season. Joe will has been with the sharks in some capacity since day 1 but he's been coy about future movement.

I honestly have no idea what they're going to do in the future but as a long-time sharks fan I am more than a little concerned. The Jumbo Patty Pavs days are long gone, they got to take a new approach and step into the future and make some hard decisions on guys like Meier, Vlasic and Couture.

The only saving grace visible right now is William Eklund, Thomas Bordeleau, Tristen Robins and Daniil Gushchin are all very promising and each have 3 year ELC (which is why they sent Eklund back even when he was clearly NHL ready) and Doug Wilson Jr (director of scouting) is extremely adept at drafting high value futures. He rarely misses. He is responsible for Ferraro, Norris, Eklund, Robins, Gushchin, Coe, Laroque, Barabanov, Knyzhov etc.