{"id":384358,"date":"2026-07-03T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384358\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:30:08","slug":"sharks-make-trade-during-development-camp-legacy-gustafson-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384358\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks make trade during development camp; legacy Gustafson scores"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2014 Hockey players have to be prepared to be traded at any time.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Even during development camp.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now-former Sharks prospect Zack Sharp found that out the hard way on Tuesday, as he was traded to Edmonton<\/a> along with Shakir Mukhamadullin for Darnell Nurse.<\/p>\n

The trade was somewhat surprising for other reasons, mainly because the Sharks absorbed the entire cost of Nurse\u2019s hefty long-term deal. But there was a very human cost for Sharp, who had to pack up his skates and ship up north in the midst of a week that is ostensibly designed for him to develop as a player.<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Jose Sharks’ Carl Grundstrom (91) battles for the puck with Edmonton Oilers’ Darnell Nurse (25) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Friday, April 11, 2025. (Amber Bracken\/The Canadian Press via AP)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, he finished his developmental time up in Canada, where the 2025 fourth-round draft pick may one day occupy the same blue line Nurse, a former No. 7 overall pick, manned for a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a first for me,\u201d said Sharks director of player development Todd Marchant. \u201cWe\u2019ve traded a player before development camp. I\u2019ve been a part of trading a player mid-game, but not mid-camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo listen, Zach is a great kid. He was obviously playing a big role at Western Michigan. Edmonton was adamant about putting him in the deal. Obviously, we get an NHL defenseman back, but we\u2019re sad to see him go to another team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marchant said he and general manager Mike Grier met with Sharp after the trade and told him \u201cour paths could cross at some point,\u201d which would seem to indicate that they may have interest in bringing him back someday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was extremely happy with being drafted by the San Jose Sharks and being a part of this family,\u201d Marchant said. \u201cBut we wish him nothing but the best with Edmonton and wherever his career goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pohlkamp sits out scrimmage, McCarthy talks NHL readiness<\/p>\n

Eric Pohlkamp skated for the Sharks during Wednesday\u2019s practice but did not take the ice for San Jose\u2019s prospect scrimmage on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Barracuda coach John McCarthy tutored Pohlkamp at the end of last season after he joined San Jose\u2019s AHL team from the University of Denver, where he won a national championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McCarthy said the Sharks are avoiding taking any chances now with the intention of preparing Pohlkamp to hit the ground running during training camp in September. Pohlkamp is dealing with linging pinky and ankle injuries from the end of his season at Denver.<\/p>\n

\"DenverDenver defenseman Eric Pohlkamp (23) celebrates a goal scored during the first period of an NCAA hockey regional game against Cornell, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Loveland, Co. (AP Photo\/Tyler Tate)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got to come in just like anyone else would come into camp, in great shape, be ready to go, take what we\u2019re telling them to do and apply it,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cHe\u2019s a guy that\u2019s going to have to defend and bring an offensive element as well. All those stick details, body position defensively, and then when there\u2019s a time to make a play, we want him to make a play.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a great year, great year in college. He was able to play one game for us, which was good for him to get exposed to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gustafson has dream opening chapter<\/p>\n

Jake Gustafson is a Shark through and through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Jose\u2019s sixth-round pick this year is the son of Sharks senior vice president Jon Gustafson and a former Jr. Shark who also skated for Bellarmine College Prep\u2019s club hockey team before decamping to Minnesota to join the elite Shattuck-St. Mary\u2019s hockey boarding school academy.<\/p>\n

\"SAPSAP Center Senior Vice President Jon Gustafson speaks during the \u201cTaste of the Tank\u201d event at the center. (Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he came back this week for his first Sharks dev camp and had a dream start to his first prospect scrimmage, opening the game with the first goal for Team Marleau just minutes after the initial puck drop, setting the tone early as Team Marleau beat Team Thornton 5-3 to win the Marchment Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper fun,\u201d the 18-year-old Gustafson said. \u201cIt was cool to score a goal. Good crowd tonight. Good to get the boys going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scrimmage was attended by 3,527 fans, the Sharks said, generating a rowdy environment within the 4,200-seat building.<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Jose Sharks\u2019 Ivar Stenberg (41) holds up a trophy after playing in the San Jose Sharks’ prospects scrimmage at Tech CU in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, July 2, 2026. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n

And a number of those fans knew Gustafson personally. His father, after all, runs the place as the overseer of Sharks Ice.<\/p>\n

After hearing years worth of goal calls at SAP Center, he finally got his own from longtime public address announcer Danny Miller.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a pretty cool moment,\u201d Gustafson said. \u201cPretty cool to hear it. I\u2019ve heard it so many times, and then now hearing it for me, it was really cool. I was soaking it all in. I was like, \u2018Wow, I can\u2019t believe that just happened.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Jose Sharks\u2019 Keaton Verhoeff (20) high fives fans after the San Jose Sharks’ prospects scrimmage at Tech CU in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, July 2, 2026. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Hockey players have to be prepared to be traded at any time.\u00a0 Even during development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,401,402,181,404,88,90,89,98,198,403,200,127],"class_list":["post-384358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-hockey","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-sharks-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384358","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=384358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}