The top six four of the Sharks is (more or less) an established group. The Captain Line (Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau) is all set and Logan Couture is the established center of the second line. Joel Ward has (mostly) stuck there and Kevin Labanc and Joonas Donskoi have traded off in that role. So we’ll just call it a top four, for now.
The bottom six eight? Not so much. Injuries and a lack of scoring led to more shuffling than at a Las Vegas card table amongst the San Jose depth players. Before I have yet another say on what the bottom six of the Sharks should look like, I think now’s as good a time as any to turn it over to the readers.