BUFFALO \u2014 Where the San Jose Sharks go, the 2026 Draft goes.<\/p>\n
That appears to be the case, since Combine buzz has Gavin McKenna pretty much a lock to go to the Toronto Maple Leafs at No. 1.<\/p>\n
So who will the Sharks pick at No. 2?<\/p>\n
A defenseman is the prevailing buzz, but keep in mind, it\u2019s just chatter, albeit educated by league executives, scouts, player agents.<\/p>\n
My personal feeling, at the moment, is defensemen Chase Reid or Carson Carels, but I stress, it\u2019s just a feeling.<\/p>\n
The Sharks did take Reid and Carels out for dinner. They also took out defenseman Keaton Verhoeff and winger Ivar Stenberg.<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks director of amateur scouting Chris Morehouse says that the team took out six prospects, which joking not joking, has to be league lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 Where the San Jose Sharks go, the 2026 Draft goes. That appears to be the case,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":850041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[305383,318961,347345,318004,318962,347346,318041,347347,81159,347348,24355,347349,1322,149345,1815,316676,251433,243539,21393,347350,347351,243540,347352,293,214952,347353,1328,347354,44270,62,347355,1304,347356,67,132,68,113004,5956,243541,347357],"class_list":["post-850040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-alberts-smits","tag-alexander-command","tag-caleb-malhotra","tag-carson-carels","tag-casey-mutryn","tag-chase-reid","tag-chris-morehouse","tag-combine","tag-daxon-rudolph","tag-dinner","tag-ethan-belchetz","tag-featured","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-interview","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-liam-ruck","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-maksim-sokolovskii","tag-malte-gustafsson","tag-markus-ruck","tag-matias-vanhanen","tag-nhl","tag-oscar-hemming","tag-ryan-lin","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-simas-ignatavicius","tag-sjhn","tag-sports","tag-thomas-bleyl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-tynan-lawrence","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-viggo-bjorck","tag-will-smith","tag-wyatt-cullen","tag-xavier-villeneuve"],"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\/850040","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=850040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}