{"id":77307,"date":"2025-07-20T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77307\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:13:08","slug":"how-would-i-grade-sharks-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77307\/","title":{"rendered":"How Would I Grade Sharks&#8217; Off-Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would I grade the San Jose Sharks\u2019 off-season?<\/p>\n<p>It appears as if the Sharks don\u2019t have too much left up their sleeve this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say we probably are finished,\u201d GM <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-mike-grier-ryan-reaves-jeff-skinner-grand-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Grier<\/a> said last week.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s review each move\u2026overall grade at the end!<\/p>\n<p>William Eklund<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks inked their 22-year-old star winger, who broke out with a career-high 58 points last season, to a three-year, $16.8 million extension ($5.6 million AAV) that kicks in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>That figure was in line with San Jose Hockey Now\u2019s prediction about <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-william-eklund-contract-extension-comps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Eklund<\/a>\u2018s extension in early June: \u201cIf Eklund and the Sharks discuss three or four-year extensions, over $5 million AAV seems like a realistic possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So no argument with the not my money anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks, however, may regret not locking up their budding star to more years\u2026but Eklund is not a sure thing to develop into a playoff-caliber first-line winger either. From Eklund\u2019s perspective, he\u2019s sick of losing, so hopefully the team is truly on the way up.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s couple who loves each other, but isn\u2019t sure if they\u2019re ready to get married yet.<\/p>\n<p>Grade: A<\/p>\n<p>John Klingberg<\/p>\n<p>Klingberg, 32, signed a one-year, $4 million contract with the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>If healthy, the 6-foot-2 right-hander should prove to be a bargain. In his prime, he was one of the top offensive defenseman in the NHL, and he looked spry during the Edmonton Oilers\u2019 Stanley Cup Final run.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s also played just 25 regular season games over the last two years because of hip issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How would I grade the San Jose Sharks\u2019 off-season? It appears as if the Sharks don\u2019t have too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[44264,35842,1322,10004,28398,27075,28400,293,28397,27076,42929,1328,62,130,67,132,68,44273],"class_list":{"0":"post-77307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alex-nedeljkovic","9":"tag-dmitry-orlov","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-free-agency","12":"tag-jeff-skinner","13":"tag-john-klingberg","14":"tag-mike-grier","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nick-leddy","17":"tag-philipp-kurashev","18":"tag-ryan-reaves","19":"tag-san-jose-sharks","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-william-eklund"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114884090666987683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77307","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=77307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}