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Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images Repeatedly on the SJHN podcast we have been asked about how the Sharks are going to address the backend this offseason. For the unaware, the Sharks' current defense, subtracting some up and comers and unsigned players, looks like this for next year: Dmitry Orlov XXX Sam Dickinson XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX I'm going to put forth a plan here to get from that to something playoff worthy. Let's start with the draft and work out from there.

The San Jose Sharks are in recently uncharted waters. The Sharks, a veritable powerhouse in the NHL from the 2000s to the 2010s, fell off the deep end from 2020-2025, boasting some of the worst records in the NHL over that span. Sharks fans endured beatdowns that hadn't been seen since before humans landed on the moon . But we did endure. We waited. We waited. Then we waited some more. And then we got lucky. We got Macklin Celebrini in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft. And it is luck