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Photo by Brandon Magnus/NHLI via Getty Images It’s time for day two of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft and you can follow along in the comments for live updates and reactions! The selection order, along with all of our previous coverage, is linked below. The San Jose Sharks have seven remaining picks, with no picks in the second round. Their next selection, barring any trades, … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft, Rounds 2-7: How to watch, selection order & open thread

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images To quote the kid himself: Booyah! Round one of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft opened with the lottery-winning Buffalo Sabres taking the consensus first-overall talent, defender Owen Power. The Seattle Kraken followed up with their first-ever draft pick in center Matty Beniers. After that, things could go a number of ways. There were rumors … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft: Sharks select William Eklund with No. 7 pick

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images The first round closes out on a real bummer. I’m not going to lie, I was pretty pumped about the fact that William Eklund is a San Jose Shark, but the NHL always finds ways to shoot themselves in the foot when things are going too well. Tonight’s first round disappointingly closed out with the Montreal Canadiens selecting a player … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft: Full first round results

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images A collection of scouting reports paints a picture of a mature forward who will soon be ready for the next level. Scouting for the 2021 NHL Entry Draft had its issues, but a player everyone was talking about was Swedish forward William Eklund, whom the San Jose Sharks selected at seventh overall on Friday evening. What were they … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft: What do the experts say about Eklund?

Photo by Matt Cohen/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The German forward will be returning to his home country. The San Jose Sharks took a chance when they signed undrafted forward Lean Bergmann to a three-year entry-level contract in 2019. That experiment appears to be over, as the team placed Bergmann on unconditional waivers on Friday morning, for purposes of mutually … [Read more...] about Lean Bergmann placed on waivers

Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images Here’s comes the boy! Hello boy! It’s finally time. Here’s a quick refresher on our draft coverage and I’ll see you all in the comments! 2021 Sharks Draft: Which players are ranked seventh?NHL Mock Draft 2021: San Jose Sharks select Kent Johnson with No. 7 pick2021 NHL Draft: Every Sharks pickGrading the last 10 years of Sharks … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft, Round 1: How to watch, selection order & open thread

Photo by Kyle Harris/NHLI via Getty Images Brush up on the picks ahead of tonight’s first round. Closing out the busiest week of the NHL’s off-season is the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. The first round will air tonight at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. Rounds 2-7 will begin on Saturday morning at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET. The first round will feature a forfeited pick at 11th overall, as the … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft: Complete list of all 224 picks

Photo by Christopher Mast/Getty Images A short, and not terribly sweet, list. San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson has proven over the last decade and a half that he will do whatever it takes to keep the Sharks’ Stanley Cup window open, which can often involve trading away premium draft capital. This has been especially true over the past decade, with the Sharks … [Read more...] about Grading the last 10 years of Sharks first-round picks

Photo by Kavin Mistry/NHLI via Getty Images The Sharks are armed with eight picks going into draft weekend. Tonight is the first round of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft and a slight salve on a dumpster of a season is that the San Jose Sharks will be picking inside of the top-10, a rarity for a team that’s been plagued with perpetually competitive results over their … [Read more...] about 2021 NHL Draft: Every Sharks pick