Top San Jose Sharks prospect Quentin Musty once again looks leaner as he heads into his fourth NHL training camp.

Musty spoke exclusively with SHD on Saturday and said he’s gained five pounds of muscle. After a change in his physical body type, the Sharks forward felt ready to make an impact. He certainly did that with the San Jose Barracuda last season, scoring 45 (21 goals, 24 assists) in 61 games.

“I think I added about five pounds this summer. Definitely slimmed down a bit again. Just trying to get as lean as I can and as fast as I can,” Musty said on Saturday. “The big focus for me: I leaned out a lot last year and came into camp looking and feeling pretty good. Honestly, adding a little bit of weight back and just being bigger, trying to be more of a force in the corners.”

Musty changed his off-season training a bit in 2026. After spending 2025 in Toronto, the San Jose Sharks prospect was in Boston. The winger skated with multiple NHLers, including potential Sharks teammates Will Smith and Michael Kesselring.

“It was a very high-end group. I was lucky enough to be able to share the ice with a lot of those guys,” Musty said. “Obviously it’s summer skates; it’s fun, and the guys are having fun the whole time, but they work hard the whole time. It’s almost like in-season skates with the pace of those skates.

[I’m] just trying to learn. There’s a ton of guys out there [I’m] trying to learn from. It was nice skating with those guys for the first time in the summer.”

With a shortened training camp this season, Musty knows that the 2026 Rookie Faceoff will be a head start for a first impression this season. If he wants to make the San Jose Sharks out of camp, this is where it will begin.

“It’s my fourth training camp now; I know what it takes. Like I said, trying to add an element to my game, just show them I could play up and down the lineup,” Musty explained. “This organization has a lot of high-end talent. I’m a bigger body. I like to think of myself as an offensive player, but I’m just trying to show them I can have that aspect of my game as well. Work my way up the lineup that way.”

Musty will skate on a line with familiar teammates on Saturday. The winger will play the wing with Filip Bystedt in the middle and Cam Lund, who is returning from a major shoulder injury, on the right. Musty also skated on the top power-play unit.

Some PP work for the prospects right now before #SJSharks practice begins:

PP1: Pohlkamp-Misa-Chernyshov-Stenberg-Musty

— Max Miller (@Real_Max_Miller) September 12, 2026

Puck drop for the first Sharks Rookie Faceoff game is set for 5 p.m. PT.