{"id":778946,"date":"2026-05-07T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778946\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:43:13","slug":"seven-prospects-for-sharks-to-consider-at-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778946\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Prospects for Sharks To Consider at No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a whole new world for the San Jose Sharks at the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks were likely to come out of Tuesday\u2019s draft lottery with the No. 9 pick. Instead, ping pong ball luck got them the No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs also moved up, winning the first-overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>So now, the 2026 draft, to be held on June 26 and 27 in Buffalo, is basically the San Jose Sharks\u2019 oyster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good day for the organization,\u201d GM Mike Grier said after the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Who could Grier and his scouting staff be looking at for No. 2?<\/p>\n<p>Gavin McKenna<\/p>\n<p>The winger is the consensus No. 1 pick, not likely to be available at No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>But McKenna also isn\u2019t the unanimous first-overall a la Matthew Schaefer, Macklin Celebrini, or Connor Bedard in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>If the Leafs pass on McKenna, it would be hard for the San Jose Sharks to ignore him. McKenna is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/nhl-draft\/2026-nhl-mock-draft-much-debate-following-top-2-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmost dynamic offensive playmaker of this draft class\u201d<\/a>, a future first-line winger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a whole new world for the San Jose Sharks at the 2026 draft. The Sharks were likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":778947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[305383,318961,318962,318963,318041,318964,318965,1322,149345,316676,251433,28400,318966,293,1328,318967,62,318968,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-778946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-alberts-smits","10":"tag-carson-carels","11":"tag-chase-malhotra","12":"tag-chase-reid","13":"tag-chris-peters","14":"tag-craig-button","15":"tag-featured","16":"tag-gavin-mckenna","17":"tag-ivar-stenberg","18":"tag-keaton-verhoeff","19":"tag-mike-grier","20":"tag-mike-morreale","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-san-jose-sharks","23":"tag-scott-wheeler","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-steven-ellis","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116531705164052803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778946","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=778946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}