{"id":366468,"date":"2026-06-19T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:39:09","slug":"scouts-on-what-kesselring-can-bring-to-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366468\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouts on What Kesselring Can Bring to Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Everybody agrees that Michael Kesselring had a tough season.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s Kesselring at his best? Three NHL scouts couldn\u2019t quite agree.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks acquired the 26-year-old defenseman from the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday, along with the No. 27 pick in the 2026 Draft, in exchange for the No. 20.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/pickvalue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puckpedia\u2019s Perri Pick Value Calculator<\/a>, the value difference between those seven first round draft spots is roughly a mid-second rounder, meaning that Kesselring did not come cheaply to the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>This, despite just two assists in 34 games and many healthy scratches for Kesselring this past season.<\/p>\n<p>But Kesselring is just 26, enjoyed a breakout 2024-25 campaign with the Utah Mammoth, and is a mobile 6-foot-5 right-hander. There\u2019s not a lot of those in the NHL. That season, Kesselring saw the equivalent of second-unit power play usage, and notched seven goals and 29 points, averaging 17:41 a night.<\/p>\n<p>Can he return to that form\u2026or be better for the San Jose Sharks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Everybody agrees that Michael Kesselring had a tough season. But what\u2019s Kesselring at his best? Three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62931,2064,93,66125,88,90,89,98,8864,44566,3236],"class_list":["post-366468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-draft","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-featured","tag-michael-kesselring","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scouts","tag-stathletes","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}