For the first time since 2010, the NHL Draft Lottery had absolutely zero changes from the regular season standings. As a result, the San Jose Sharks hold the first overall pick for the 2024 class.
The San Jose Sharks will have the first pick for the event held on June 28 and 29 at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
The San Jose Sharks, in a period of transition and currently without a head coach, won the NHL Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, following a regular season in which they posted just 19 wins and 47 points, good for last in the entire league.
It will be a bit of a homecoming for Macklin Celebrini.
The Sharks finished the regular season with the NHL's worst record and had the highest odds going into Tuesday's lottery. The top 16 picks followed the standings exactly with no team moving up or down in the lottery.
As anticipation mounted for the NHL Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, all eyes were on the potential game-changer, Macklin Celebrini. The lottery determined which team would get the coveted opportunity to draft the highly sought-after prospect, whose skill set has the potential to alter the trajectory of any franchise lucky enough to secure him.
The 2024 NHL draft is heading to the Sphere in Las Vegas on June 28 and 29. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced the site of the draft during Tuesday's…
We have a winner in the Slackin’ for Macklin sweepstakes. With a turn of the card from NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, the San Jose Sharks won the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery and have been awarded the first-overall pick in this year’s draft.
The Sharks have officially won the race for superstar prospect Macklin Celebrini — the consensus top prospect in the 2024 NHL Draft. The franchise landed the top pick in this year's draft after going into the lottery as a favorite with an 18.5 percent chance.
Max Miller of The Hockey News: San Jose Sharks 35-year-old forward Logan Couture would like to play for a team that is going to win but knows his health would be an issue as he only played six games last season.
If the San Jose Sharks don’t get the first-overall selection, who will they pick? The Sharks will know tomorrow if they’re No. 1 – the Draft Lottery is May 7, starting at 3:30 PM PT on ESPN, before the New York Rangers-Carolina Hurricanes’ second-round tilt.
Now that the San Jose Sharks have fired head coach David Quinn, they are in the process of searching for a new leader on the bench. Given that the team struggled this season and will likely continue to do so for multiple seasons to come, hiring the right coach will be tricky.
Will Smith is about to get his first pro test…but not with the San Jose Sharks. Smith, the fourth-overall pick of the 2023 Draft, has been added to Team USA’s World Championships squad.
So how are the San Jose Sharks going to get better this off-season? Good news, it can’t get worse…right? The 2023-24 Sharks were the second-worst team of the salary cap era, their .287 Points % just ahead of the 2019-20 Detroit Red Wings’ .275.
The San Jose Sharks’ offense was led by one player in 2023-24, offseason acquisition Mikael Granlund. As a result, he seemed like a fitting candidate to lead off our player grades for the campaign. There were minimal expectations for Granlund when he joined the Sharks from the Pittsburgh Penguins as part of the Erik Karlsson blockbuster trade.
Of the many storylines heading into the offseason for teams that failed to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the San Jose Sharks’ search for a new head coach will be intriguing.
The offseason has arrived for half of the league’s teams that aren’t taking part in the playoffs. Accordingly, it’s now time to examine what they will need to accomplish over the coming months.
With a 19-54-9 record, the Sharks became the first team in the salary-cap era not to reach 20 wins in an 82-game season.
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