What will the San Jose Sharks\u2019 opening night roster look like?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a tough thing to guess in late July, but here are some of my ideas.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini, Michael Misa, Zack Ostapchuk, and Alex Wennberg lead the way at center.<\/p>\n
Igor Chernyshov, Ty Dellandrea, Adam Gaudette, Barclay Goodrow, Collin Graf, Mason Marchment, Kiefer Sherwood, Will Smith, 2026 No. 2 pick Ivar Stenberg, and Tyler Toffoli are on the wing.<\/p>\n
Barring injuries or a trade, that looks like a solid group of 14 forwards to start the season. It\u2019ll be a challenge for any other Sharks\u2019 forward prospects to crack this line-up.<\/p>\n
On the blueline, Sam Dickinson, Michael Kesselring, Darnell Nurse, Dmitry Orlov, and Jacob Trouba project as opening night shoo-in\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Prospects Nolan Allan, Luca Cagnoni, and Eric Pohlkamp appear to be competing for, at the moment, two roster spots. Veteran Libor Hajek shouldn\u2019t be ruled out either.<\/p>\n
In goal, Yaroslav Askarov and Alex Nedeljkovic figures to be the tandem.<\/p>\n
So what will the San Jose Sharks look like on opening night? I discuss with Jack Han, author of Hockey Tactics 2026.<\/p>\n
Chernyshov-Celebrini-Smith<\/p>\n
What will Celebrini do next?<\/p>\n
The hockey world waits with bated breath. The sky is the limit for the 20-year-old Hart Trophy candidate, who dominated the NHL, Olympics, and World Championships last season.<\/p>\n
The bigger question for the San Jose Sharks: Who\u2019s their next star up front? Celebrini needs help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What will the San Jose Sharks\u2019 opening night roster look like? That\u2019s a tough thing to guess in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[102274,4214,4215,4216,10375,3524,90987,5400,3523,3517,75543,14893,10370,41681,157371,4180,3521,1035,55945,66125,3259,4401,65313,6585,16713,1037,88,90,89,3577,3809,3578,3516,26194],"class_list":["post-411540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-27","tag-adam-gaudette","tag-alex-nedeljkovic","tag-alex-wennberg","tag-barclay-goodrow","tag-collin-graf","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-dmitry-orlov","tag-eric-pohlkamp","tag-igor-chernyshov","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-jack-han","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-kiefer-sherwood","tag-libor-hajek","tag-lines","tag-luca-cagnoni","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-mason-marchment","tag-michael-kesselring","tag-michael-misa","tag-mike-grier","tag-nolan-allan","tag-opening-night","tag-roster","tag-sam-dickinson","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-ty-dellandrea","tag-tyler-toffoli","tag-will-smith","tag-yaroslav-askarov","tag-zack-ostapchuk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411540","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=411540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}