Combine Notebook: Spence Makes Case To Pick Misa, Local Draft Prospect Grew Up Sharks Fan (+)

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some of the prospects who weren’t interviewed at the Combine had the most insight about the San Jose Sharks.

Forward Kieren Dervin didn’t talk with the Sharks during the Combine, but he did chat with them over Zoom in season.

Dervin took an in-person IQ test on an iPad with the Sharks this year too.

“There was one test where an object appeared and there’s a number underneath it, and you had to remember it,” Dervin revealed. “There’s probably like 15 of them, and you had to remember. That was a tough one.”

Forward Ethan Czata, who spoke with about 12 teams here, noted that the Sharks also kept up with him in season.

“I don’t really take it that way,” Czata said about not talking to San Jose in Buffalo. “They could maybe know already a lot about me. Some guys get taken, they don’t even interview them here.”

“I don’t really look too much into it,” forward Mason Moe, who spoke with about a dozen teams, said. “I don’t think it matters too much.”

No doubt, Fairfield, California native Ben Kevan hopes that’s the case.

Kevan interviewed with 10 teams at the Combine, but not his childhood team, the Sharks.