Category: Armchair GM

To Buy Or Not To Buy: Sharks at a crossroads as deadline approaches

By Derek Tanabe | Mar 4th 2019 | 13 min read |

Currently sitting outside the Western Conference playoff picture and looking in, the Sharks were also forced to sit and watch as three of their closes...

Should the Sharks take a flier on Michael Del Zotto?

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 28th 2019 | 5 min read |

Doug Wilson has done it again. He’s inexplicably turned an immobile, overpaid, past-his-prime defenseman into multiple positive-value assets inc...

2014 NHL Trade Deadline: Doug Wilson should take a page from his own playbook

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 26th 2019 | 14 min read |

While Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero was widely lauded for “winning” last year’s NHL trade deadline, the team executi...

Rising salary cap stands to benefit Sharks

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 25th 2019 | 4 min read |

It’s fitting that the league’s Board Of Governors meeting earlier this week took place in Pebble Beach because few clubs stand to benefit ...

Predicting the Sharks' trade deadline gameplan

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 23rd 2019 | 8 min read |

As we close in on yet another likely uneventful four hours of overwrought Canadian television coverage featuring six adult men speculating about the s...

Should the Sharks claim Jussi Jokinen?

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 23rd 2019 | 4 min read |

Despite an impressive performance by the team’s new-look third line (to be fair, it’s essentially a different-looking trio on a nightly ba...

Should the Sharks sign Scott Gomez? No, seriously. Stop laughing.

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 22nd 2019 | 7 min read |

It has taken less than 72 hours for the league to make an amendment to the collective bargaining agreement it canceled half a season to negotiate. But...

Do the Sharks even have a buyout candidate?

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 22nd 2019 | 10 min read |

With the NHL reportedly agreeing to allow each of its teams two amnesty buyouts—that would count against the players’ share of hockey-related ...

Will the Sharks be able to get under the NHL's new salary cap?

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 22nd 2019 | 5 min read |

It seems presumptuous to be discussing the 2013-14 season before the 2012-13 season has even begun (although, in fairness, that might never happen) bu...

Sharks pursuing Shane Doan, but is he already on the team?

By Jon Wold | Feb 20th 2019 | 6 min read |

I’ll be honest: in the first draft of this article, I was going to write about what the Sharks would look like with Shane Doan on the roster. My...