This surely wasn’t how Jannik Hansen thought his career post-Vancouver would play out.
Following a trade at the 2017 deadline to the San Jose Sharks, Hansen appeared to be a great depth addition to the Sharks. Although he didn’t set the world on fire, he did have seven points in 15 regular season games, before he was reduced to one assist in six playoff games.
No one knew it (except Peter DeBoer), but that was the beginning of the end of Hansen’s NHL career.
2017-18 played out and Hansen was often a healthy scratch, and never found a comfortable place to play in the lineup.