4 Big Sharks Storylines To Watch This Season

There are more questions than answers with the 2023-24 San Jose Sharks.

Here are the four Sharks storylines that I’m watching most closely, on the eve of their 7 PM season opener against the Vegas Golden Knights at SAP Center.

Who’s No. 1?

For two decades, from 2000-01 to 2020-21, the San Jose Sharks enjoyed relative stability in goal, going from Evgeni Nabokov to Antti Niemi to Martin Jones without pause. In fact, just two NHL franchises, in those 20 years, had three goalies start over 290 games each for them, the Sharks and Anaheim Ducks (J.S. Giguere, Jonas Hiller, John Gibson).

So the recent upheaval in the San Jose Sharks’ net is not an organizational norm. But it’s becoming so – over the last three years, GMs Doug Wilson, Joe Will, and Mike Grier have brought in would-be starter after would-be starter, Devan Dubnyk in 2020-21, James Reimer, Adin Hill, and Kaapo Kahkonen in 2021-22, and now, Mackenzie Blackwood.

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