{"id":628378,"date":"2026-05-07T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:48:09","slug":"seven-prospects-for-sharks-to-consider-at-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628378\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Prospects for Sharks To Consider at No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a whole new world for the San Jose Sharks at the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks were likely to come out of Tuesday\u2019s draft lottery with the No. 9 pick. Instead, ping pong ball luck got them the No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs also moved up, winning the first-overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>So now, the 2026 draft, to be held on June 26 and 27 in Buffalo, is basically the San Jose Sharks\u2019 oyster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good day for the organization,\u201d GM Mike Grier said after the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Who could Grier and his scouting staff be looking at for No. 2?<\/p>\n<p>Gavin McKenna<\/p>\n<p>The winger is the consensus No. 1 pick, not likely to be available at No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>But McKenna also isn\u2019t the unanimous first-overall a la Matthew Schaefer, Macklin Celebrini, or Connor Bedard in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>If the Leafs pass on McKenna, it would be hard for the San Jose Sharks to ignore him. McKenna is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/nhl-draft\/2026-nhl-mock-draft-much-debate-following-top-2-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmost dynamic offensive playmaker of this draft class\u201d<\/a>, a future first-line winger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a whole new world for the San Jose Sharks at the 2026 draft. The Sharks were likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[222326,271813,271814,271815,270971,271816,271817,831,110964,270972,214540,4273,271818,385,835,271819,99,51577],"class_list":["post-628378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-alberts-smits","tag-carson-carels","tag-chase-malhotra","tag-chase-reid","tag-chris-peters","tag-craig-button","tag-featured","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-mike-grier","tag-mike-morreale","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scott-wheeler","tag-sports","tag-steven-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628378","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=628378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}