San Jose Sharks
5 Reasons Why Toffoli Great Fit for Sharks
Tyler Toffoli appears to be a great fit for the San Jose Sharks.
Chatting with the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast in late August, Toffoli touched on some of the reasons why the Sharks’ investment in him this summer, four years and $24 million, made sense for both sides.
That’s actually the most lucrative free agent contract that the San Jose Sharks have ever handed out to an outside player.
Getting Better With Age
The 32-year-old has enjoyed three 30-goal campaigns over his 12-year NHL career, two of those three in the last two years, 34 in 2022-23 and 33 last season.
Since 2020-21, Toffoli has averaged 1.43 Goals Per 60, 22nd of 279 forwards (3,000-plus minutes). In the previous eight years, he averaged 1.04 Goals Per 60.
The new San Jose Sharks winger credits well-earned experience for his late-career spark: “I feel confident. There’s a stretch of games where I won’t score. At the end of the day, I look back to when I first came to the league and look at the little things that I was doing that would make me successful and I try and bring that back. I know when certain things are going well in my game, goals and points and all that stuff will follow.
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Another great article! I love his attitude and how he approaches the game. I believe he will be a very goof influence on the young guns the Sharks are and will have on their roster and will help build a good culture in the future.
Thank you for all the great content and podcasts you have provided. I do not miss any of them.
The best thing about Toffoli is that he gives Macklin a competent, higher-end, linemate.
To max out Celebrini’s growth, he is going to need linemates that are top-6 level forwards so he can figure out how first/second lines work at the NHL level.
Toffoli is that level player. He is the linemate who can finish with a good set-up. He knows where to go on the ice to enable chances, etc. Macklin will learn a lot faster with Toffoli. Which is the single most critical thing for the Sharks longer term plans.