BUFFALO \u2014 Where the San Jose Sharks go, the 2026 Draft goes.<\/p>\n
That appears to be the case, since Combine buzz has Gavin McKenna pretty much a lock to go to the Toronto Maple Leafs at No. 1.<\/p>\n
So who will the Sharks pick at No. 2?<\/p>\n
A defenseman is the prevailing buzz, but keep in mind, it\u2019s just chatter, albeit educated by league executives, scouts, player agents.<\/p>\n
My personal feeling, at the moment, is defensemen Chase Reid or Carson Carels, but I stress, it\u2019s just a feeling.<\/p>\n
The Sharks did take Reid and Carels out for dinner. They also took out defenseman Keaton Verhoeff and winger Ivar Stenberg.<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks director of amateur scouting Chris Morehouse says that the team took out six prospects, which joking not joking, has to be league lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 Where the San Jose Sharks go, the 2026 Draft goes. That appears to be the case,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[222326,271813,299311,297729,271814,299312,270971,299313,223796,299314,45364,299315,831,110964,3381,270972,214540,207968,4272,299316,50940,207969,299317,385,182583,299318,835,299319,6531,99,299320,1788,299321,86326,4277,207970,299322],"class_list":["post-689297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-alberts-smits","tag-alexander-command","tag-caleb-malhotra","tag-carson-carels","tag-casey-mutryn","tag-chase-reid","tag-chris-morehouse","tag-combine","tag-daxon-rudolph","tag-dinner","tag-ethan-belchetz","tag-featured","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-interview","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-liam-ruck","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-maksim-sokolovskii","tag-malte-gustafsson","tag-markus-ruck","tag-matias-vanhanen","tag-nhl","tag-oscar-hemming","tag-ryan-lin","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-simas-ignatavicius","tag-sjhn","tag-sports","tag-thomas-bleyl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-tynan-lawrence","tag-viggo-bjorck","tag-will-smith","tag-wyatt-cullen","tag-xavier-villeneuve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689297","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=689297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}