{"id":381862,"date":"2026-07-01T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381862\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:40:07","slug":"lin-on-how-he-got-adam-gaudettes-stick-his-favorite-player-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381862\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin\u00a0on How He Got Adam Gaudette&#8217;s Stick, His Favorite Player Growing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Lin is rooming with someone he knows\u00a0pretty well\u00a0during San Jose Sharks\u2019\u00a0Development Camp.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lin and fellow Sharks prospect Colton Roberts played together for the Vancouver Giants for a season, and\u00a0the\u00a0defensemen\u00a0also work out together during the summers in British Columbia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re good friends, so it\u2019s nice,\u201d\u00a0the 5-foot-11 right-handeder\u00a0said. \u201cI didn\u2019t see him during the season because he\u2019s in Colorado, so it\u2019s nice to see him again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the older Roberts is showing Lin\u00a0\u2013 who the San Jose Sharks drafted at No. 21 \u2013\u00a0around his first development camp.\u00a0Roberts was a 2024 fifth-round\u00a0selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lin has already impressed\u00a0San Jose Barracuda\u00a0head\u00a0coach John McCarthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI thought Lin was competitive as well,\u201d McCarthy said.\u00a0\u201cI liked that he was working inside on loose pucks. You could see why they were selected where they were.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lin spoke about\u00a0meeting Adam Gaudette seven years ago,\u00a0who\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0learning from at camp, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the San Jose Sharks trading up to get him\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It feels good.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not going to\u00a0lie,\u00a0they obviously used a lot to jump up those six picks and get me. But I feel like I can show them that I deserved that pick.\u00a0They did use\u00a0a lot, so\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0going to try to prove them right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On how the experience of being drafted has been\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last five days for me have been pretty overwhelming.\u00a0It was\u00a0stressful for a bit, but now\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0just pure excitement. This organization is going up rapidly, and\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0excited to be a part of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They both look better in Teal. \ud83d\ude0f<\/p>\n<p>When 2026 Sharks draft pick Ryan Lin was 11, then-Canuck Adam Gaudette skated with his youth team and gifted him a stick that Ryan still has at home today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dME90zyUVe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dME90zyUVe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/2071791485687885869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On meeting\u00a0Adam Gaudette in Vancouver seven years ago\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s\u00a0so many little storylines.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not even sure how exactly I\u00a0met him, but\u00a0I think he\u00a0was friends with one of my teammates\u2019 dads when I was 10, 11 years old. When he was playing for\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0he came up to one of our practices, and we had a shootout competition at the end, and whoever won, he gave them their stick. I won, so I\u00a0have\u00a0Adam Gaudette\u2019s\u00a0stick in my house still.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0a\u00a0pretty cool\u00a0story,\u00a0now that\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0here too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He sent a text to one\u00a0of our guys, and that was pretty cool.\u00a0Kind of a\u00a0full circle moment, and\u00a0I guess he\u00a0knows\u00a0me now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I framed the picture with me and him, so I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0really think that we could be teammates one day, hopefully.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On if\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0going to get another stick from Gaudette\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might give\u00a0his\u00a0back if he wants it. I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know. I\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0seen him\u00a0yet, but\u00a0hoping to meet him soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On his favorite player, growing up in British Columbia\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was a Canucks fan. I really liked Quinn Hughes when he was there.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0one of the best defenders in the league, and\u00a0anything I could pick\u00a0from his game.\u00a0I\u2019d\u00a0watch\u00a0all 82\u00a0Canucks\u00a0games being a fan.\u00a0So\u00a0I watched him a\u00a0lot, and\u00a0really liked him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On\u00a0what\u00a0has stood\u00a0out to him at camp\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the ice today, Luca\u00a0Sbisa\u00a0(Development Coach). I just met him a few days ago, but\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0already learning a lot of stuff from him.\u00a0Obviously\u00a0he had a long NHL career, so\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0excited to learn more from him too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On being on the ice with Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton, and other hockey legends\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The staff they have here in San Jose, they have countless NHL games under their belts.\u00a0So\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a special place to get drafted to, and to have all these resources available, and all these people who want to help me get better as much as I do,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0nice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Lin is rooming with someone he knows\u00a0pretty well\u00a0during San Jose Sharks\u2019\u00a0Development Camp.\u00a0\u00a0 Lin and fellow Sharks prospect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4214,152775,9080,154285,111611,88,90,89,98,62820],"class_list":["post-381862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-adam-gaudette","tag-colton-roberts","tag-development-camp","tag-luca-sbisa","tag-ryan-lin","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-stick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381862","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=381862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}