{"id":377519,"date":"2026-06-27T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377519\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:02:07","slug":"breaking-sharks-pick-san-jose-native-jake-gustafson-no-174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377519\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Sharks Pick San Jose Native Jake Gustafson No. 174"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have selected Jake Gustafson with the No. 174 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Gustafson is a 6-foot-4 right-handed center, who put up 13 goals and 25 points in 68 games for the Portland Winterhawks.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also got a San Jose Sharks connection: The San Jose native is the son of the SAP Center vice president Jon Gustafson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComposed defensive centre most commonly deep in his own zone; flashes of vision and skill suggest he could become more than just a role player,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/nhl-draft-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Prospects<\/a> says, \u201cProjecting Gustafson to the NHL isn\u2019t tricky: A bottom-six, two-way centre. He\u2019ll have to turn those intriguing pieces into consistent impact and ramp up the physicality and engagement, but he has the tools for such a role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks\u2019 next pick is scheduled to be their last, No. 201 in the seventh round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have selected Jake Gustafson with the No. 174 pick. Gustafson is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62931,142306,93,152835,152836,126956,88,90,89,98,2577,8864,80646],"class_list":["post-377519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-draft","tag-elite-prospects","tag-featured","tag-jake-gustafson","tag-jon-gustafson","tag-keegan-mcnally","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sap-center","tag-scouts","tag-sharks-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377519","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=377519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}