Pashelka: After draft lottery, one key ingredient remains for GM Mike Grier’s plan to work
It was four years ago this week that the San Jose Sharks beat the Colorado Avalanche in Game 7 of their second-round playoff series, leading them to what was then their fourth Western Conference Final in 10 seasons.
Sharks general manager Mike Grier knows it won’t be easy for his team to get back to where it was a few years ago, competing in playoff games in front of delirious, sold-out crowds. The best way to do it, at least from his vantage point, is to build from the ground up. Whoever the Sharks’ select at No. 4 – whether it’s Swedish center Leo Carlsson, Russian winger Matvei Michkov, American forward William Smith, or someone else entirely – likely won’t be a part of the big club’s 23-man roster at least for another year or two, or maybe three.
“It’s a man’s league,” Grier said Monday night. “It’s difficult. It’s difficult to expect an 18-year-old to come in and have success and do the things they’ve done their whole life.”The Sharks wanted their defense corps to get bigger and more mobile and acquired Shakir Mukhamadullin and Nikita Okhotiuk from New Jersey in the Timo Meier trade. Mukhamadullin could be a top-four defenseman if all goes well, and Okhotiuk plays a simple, no-nonsense style that coaches can appreciate.
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