NHL: San Jose Sharks just finished a season at SAP Center in which they won just eight of 40 games.
Erik Karlsson had just become the sixth defenseman in NHL history to reach 100 points in a season, and Logan Couture joined Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton, and Joe Pavelski as the only San Jose Sharks players to score 700 points with the team.
All of this despite Karlsson’s historic achievement and Couture’s milestone in what’s so far been a 67-point season, his best in years. While the selections of Tomas Hertl in 2012 at No. 17 overall, and Timo Meier in 2015 at No. 9 worked out about as well as anyone could have hoped, other decisions backfired, like the ones to take defenseman Mirco Mueller 18th overall in 2013 and move back in the 2014 draft to take forward Nikolai Goldobin at No. 27.
Of the 25 players the Sharks drafted from 2015 to 2018, just five played more than 100 games for the team: Meier, Rudolfs Balcers, Noah Gregor, Dylan Gambrell, and Mario Ferraro. Only Gregor and Ferraro remain in San Jose. Former general manager Doug Wilson’s win-now approach was prevalent throughout the 2010s, as he also gave up first-round draft picks in 2016 and 2019, respectively, to acquire Martin Jones in 2015 and Evander Kane in 2018. Not having those picks weakened an already thin prospect pool.Karlsson remains the highest-paid defenseman in the NHL as his contract carries an average annual value of $11.5 million. The previous offseason, the Sharks inked Kane to a seven-year, $49 million deal.
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