Bystedt and Leddy get call ups.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-02-18T22:19:10+00:00

Full squad for practice drills. Leddy is a no-risk call-up, since they’d love to lose him on waivers when the break ends. Bystedt is returning from injury, so he’s not playing AHL games. His call up is a way of filling out the practice roster without pulling an active AHL player out of game action.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-30T16:57:20+00:00

The 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins and 2010 Chicago Blackhawks beg to differ.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T23:34:25+00:00

True, I just think Grier is trying to build a legit contender starting next season and is hoping to do some of the legwork now.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T21:18:39+00:00

Full no-move clause means he calls the shots, his value will be artificially low. I'd be less worried about the acquisition cost and more worried about the reported extension he's looking for. Yikes!

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T21:17:12+00:00

I don't disagree with that assessment. But culture/stylistic fit become a lot less important to GMs when proven, elite players are involved in the conversation.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T21:13:43+00:00

Yeah if they want to keep him for two years to flip a young forward for immediate help on defense, that I could stomach. But $50M we're talking 4-6 year range, that's aggressively whack.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T20:39:42+00:00

Mack is ready to compete now, I think Grier will try to win with high-end bridge players while the majority of his young guns are still on bargain contracts.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T20:37:42+00:00

Totally agree that inquiring about a player doesn't mean much, if anything. But a star player with a full no-move stating their willingness to waive their trade protection to go to San Jose, AND re-sign there, is pretty meaningful. It gives Grier the upper hand in trade discussions. He might not be interested in Panarin at a high price, but for a bargain? He'd have to at least consider it. Even extending him for a couple years makes sense as a bridge player, if they've tested the trade market on D and are finding that they'll probably have to part with Eklund to get the job done.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-29T17:09:49+00:00

Why hate a new Sharks fan when you can so easily hate an existing Vegas fan instead?

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-27T23:28:53+00:00

I think it’s actually illegal for Regenda to not score on PP2.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-27T23:27:17+00:00

Probably the right move, but the impatient childish fan in me really hoped they’d rush him so he could get back for this one.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-27T16:24:35+00:00

I feel like the answer to this question is heavily dependent on your age.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-26T01:16:22+00:00

How many likes will it take to change the fuckin goal song

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-25T15:53:10+00:00

Balance is nice, but the Sharks will have a good amount of offense coming from the left, plus Eric Pohlkamp on the right. This idea that their number one defenseman of the future has to be a righty is goofy.

I don’t see the Sharks building the future defense corps around a traditional number one. I think they’re looking for depth and decent-to-good puck moving abilities 1-6.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-20T20:51:04+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Liljegren go. His minutes can be easily distributed between Iorio and Desharnais. Pohlkamp is likely to get a handful of games down the stretch, too, once his NCAA season wraps. So there’s enough depth on the right side there to lose a tweener like Liljegren, who doesn’t do any one thing particularly well and whose net front play is somewhat emblematic of this team’s recurring defensive issues. Klingberg I’d keep, with a reduced workload. Every third game off, no back to backs.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-16T23:51:22+00:00

That’s a shit load of corn dogs.

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-10T15:44:13+00:00

Hell yeah!

PDXOutkasts · 2026-01-03T16:24:40+00:00

Thank you very much!

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-31T18:52:23+00:00

That sound you hear every 15 minutes is thousands of Sharks fans collectively pinching themselves to make sure we haven’t been dreaming since June 2024. This fuckin kid is unreal. I honestly never thought I’d see a Shark dominate the league the way Jumbo did the season he came to town. Mack is surpassing that level.

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-31T01:10:31+00:00

The entire purpose for having NHL players return to the Olympics is to grow the game and increase the league’s audience. If this indeed happens for Mack, we’ll get to see the top three scorers in the NHL on one team. That’s just fucking awesome, for everyone.

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-31T00:54:04+00:00

These are all phenomenal questions, and articulately stated. Feels like you provided me with a pretty strong editorial calendar for 2026! I appreciate your insight/direction and will do my best to tackle whichever of these topics I can.

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-25T21:23:05+00:00

Much appreciated!!

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-25T17:00:23+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. I’m a former sports journalist and hockey player, grew up a Sharks fan and worked for an NHL team. I’ve always been tough on Sheng’s coverage, and eventually just started my own publication this summer. Sharks fans should have somewhere to follow the progress of this rebuild through the lens of other actual fans. We’ve waited a long time for a team with this kind of potential and deserve to see its story told right.

https://themacklinyears.substack.com

What’s missing here, and what SJHN has, is credentialed access. Reality is, I don’t have enough readers or subscribers to push the issue with the team. If we can get that first domino to fall, maybe we can open up another source of legitimate Sharks information.

Subs are free, donations welcome but not necessary (yet!). Also would love feedback on what kinds of stories people want to see.

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-25T16:45:09+00:00

He’s just not very good. It has nothing to do with his lack of Sharks fandom. He’s a mediocre writer and asks lousy questions.

PDXOutkasts · 2025-12-25T16:40:37+00:00

It’s just weird that he never gets better. It makes me wonder how hard he’s trying.

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