It\u2019s been a long time since the San Jose Sharks have had this high a ceiling as a team.<\/p>\n
So how high can they go next year?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also the San Jose Sharks that we\u2019re talking about \u2014 worst team in the league for back-to-back seasons \u2014 so we also have to discuss how low that they can go.<\/p>\n
What are some realistic best and worst-case scenarios for the San Jose Sharks next season? We\u2019re going to avoid obvious worst-case situations like injuries.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with what could go right.<\/p>\n
Youngsters Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, William Eklund, and Yaroslav Askarov all have high-end talent, and could take a star-making step this fall.<\/p>\n
A high-end projection for Celebrini might be a sophomore leap a la Steven Stamkos in 2009-10: If so, the 2024 No. 1 pick could approach 100 points.<\/p>\n
Smith and Eklund could hit 60-70 points.<\/p>\n
Askarov has the ability to put together a Calder Trophy-worthy campaign a la Dustin Wolf last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a long time since the San Jose Sharks have had this high a ceiling as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[6518,831,4272,385,835,99,4277,6537,6538],"class_list":["post-110330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-dmitry-orlov","tag-featured","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports","tag-will-smith","tag-william-eklund","tag-yaroslav-askarov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}