{"id":175962,"date":"2025-08-26T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:19:10","slug":"what-has-to-go-right-for-sharks-to-make-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175962\/","title":{"rendered":"What Has To Go Right for Sharks To Make Playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long time since the San Jose Sharks have had this high a ceiling as a team.<\/p>\n<p>So how high can they go next year?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also the San Jose Sharks that we\u2019re talking about \u2014 worst team in the league for back-to-back seasons \u2014 so we also have to discuss how low that they can go.<\/p>\n<p>What are some realistic best and worst-case scenarios for the San Jose Sharks next season? We\u2019re going to avoid obvious worst-case situations like injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with what could go right.<\/p>\n<p>Youngsters Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, William Eklund, and Yaroslav Askarov all have high-end talent, and could take a star-making step this fall.<\/p>\n<p>A high-end projection for Celebrini might be a sophomore leap a la Steven Stamkos in 2009-10: If so, the 2024 No. 1 pick could approach 100 points.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Eklund could hit 60-70 points.<\/p>\n<p>Askarov has the ability to put together a Calder Trophy-worthy campaign a la Dustin Wolf last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a long time since the San Jose Sharks have had this high a ceiling as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[35842,1322,21393,293,1328,62,67,132,68,5956,44273,44274],"class_list":{"0":"post-175962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-dmitry-orlov","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-macklin-celebrini","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-will-smith","18":"tag-william-eklund","19":"tag-yaroslav-askarov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092911903432166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}