It was a successful season for the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
They improved 34 points, from 52 to 86 points, and were on the cusp of the playoff race until the last week of the regular season. They established, without a doubt, that they have a franchise player in Macklin Celebrini. They saw lots of growth from other young stars like Will Smith and Sam Dickinson and Collin Graf and Michael Misa, among others.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier\u2019s off-season plan to take his team to the next level?<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll have to face potentially massive extensions for Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith. RFA Collin Graf is also due a healthy raise.<\/p>\n
Will 19-year-old Celebrini be his next captain?<\/p>\n
What will he do with UFAs Mario Ferraro, Vincent Desharnais, and Ryan Reaves?<\/p>\n
Was he happy with head coach Ryan Warsofsky\u2019s performance this season?<\/p>\n
What went wrong for the San Jose Sharks at the end of the year, that caused them to miss the playoffs?<\/p>\n
And will prospects Eric Pohlkamp and Leo Sahlin Wallenius join the San Jose Barracuda for their playoff push?<\/p>\n
Grier covered all these topics and more on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Warsofsky Will Be Back<\/p>\n
Warsofsky isn\u2019t going anywhere: Grier was happy with the job that his coaching staff did this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did a good job,\u201d Grier said. \u201cI think he\u2019s still learning and growing as a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a successful season for the San Jose Sharks. They improved 34 points, from 52 to 86…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":740290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[305383,305384,15709,63473,262,46704,31889,39548,1322,31301,213807,21393,35845,12961,28400,293,42929,42930,30247,41128,1328,35846,62,130,44272,67,132,68,35847,5956,44274],"class_list":["post-740289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-blueline","tag-captain","tag-collin-graf","tag-defense","tag-defensemen","tag-eric-pohlkamp","tag-extension","tag-featured","tag-free-agent","tag-leo-sahlin-wallenius","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-mario-ferraro","tag-michael-misa","tag-mike-grier","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-reaves","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-sam-dickinson","tag-san-jose-barracuda","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","tag-sports","tag-trade","tag-tyler-toffoli","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vincent-desharnais","tag-will-smith","tag-yaroslav-askarov"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740289","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=740289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}