What will Collin Graf\u2019s next contract look like?<\/p>\n
Graf, 23, emerged as a likely core piece of the San Jose Sharks\u2019 rebuild this season. The 6-foot-1 winger dropped 21 goals and 46 points, averaging 16:27 a night. That was sixth among Sharks forwards. Notably, Graf also led San Jose up front in overall penalty kill time, averaging 2:28 a night on the PK.<\/p>\n
It was the right time for a breakout campaign for the pending RFA, and Graf, coming out of his entry-level contract, is due a hefty raise.<\/p>\n
But how hefty?<\/p>\n
Here are two contracts, short-term and long-term, that seem sensible for Graf and the Sharks, with comps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What will Collin Graf\u2019s next contract look like? Graf, 23, emerged as a likely core piece of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[283492,283493,32789,278780,283494,4133,831,283495,385,283496,283497,52353,835,6531,99,134324],"class_list":["post-657954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-iafallo","tag-anton-lundell","tag-collin-graf","tag-comps","tag-connor-brown","tag-contract","tag-featured","tag-joel-farabee","tag-nhl","tag-nick-schmaltz","tag-noah-cates","tag-rfa","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sjhn","tag-sports","tag-will-cuylle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657954","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=657954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}