San Jose Hockey Now Podcast

Welcome to the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast! This week, we have defenseman Henry Thrun to talk all about new San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky. (56:00)Warsofsky ran the defense last year and worked closely with all the defenders, Thrun included. Thrun shares his insights into Warsofsky’s coaching and development style, and how he thinks next year will be different than las

Welcome to the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast!We welcome San Jose Sharks' Director of Player Development Todd Marchant back to the show for our 50th episode! Todd was our very first guest on the new San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, and we celebrate our 50th episode by getting his thoughts on tons of Sharks prospects, from Quentin Musty to Alex Young. (57:13)But first! It was the NHL Scout

Will Smith’s agent, Sean Coffey, joins the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast!Coffey takes us behind the scenes of Smith signing with the San Jose Sharks this past week.But before we get to Coffey (44:15), we talk about what Smith’s arrival means for the Sharks.We’ll talk more to Coffey about this -- he wasn’t one of Sheng’s sources!! -- but Sheng got wind of Smith signing last

Craig Button joins the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast this week!The TSN draft guru thinks Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith might make a Crosby-Malkin like impact on the San Jose Sharks, who he’d consider for San Jose at No. 14, and an underrated Sharks prospect that he really likes. (1:22:52)But before we get to Craig, Keegan and I talk about the San Jose Sharks coaching search. (2:

This week on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, we welcome back Nico Sturm! (57:15) We ask Nico all about the David Quinn tenure and his recent firing by GM Mike Grier, what Nico thinks about Quinn's coaching style and the 2023-2024 season in general. We also ask him about his likely future San Jose Sharks teammate Macklin Celebrini!But before that, we cover just a few topics in what

Welcome to a post-Draft Lottery victory mailbag!Congratulations, San Jose Sharks fans! You deserved this win.Thanks for all your questions!Sharksmustbealways asked if the Sharks were waiting for the Draft Lottery result to help them lure a better head coach candidate? (3:10)Amorris209 wondered generally how Macklin Celebrini affects the process for the coaching search? (4:20)Jigglz

Here's our too-early San Jose Sharks' off-season plan!***Quick aside, Keegan's microphone is muffled a bit this episode. We're sorry, everyone! One day, we'll have pristine audio every single time. But not this day. This is kind of like those workplace accident signs where they knock off 100 days since the last accident and replace it with zero. Again. Sigh.***This week, Sheng and

It’s an emergency episode of the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast!San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier has fired head coach David Quinn.When did Sheng first get wind that Quinn’s job might be in jeopardy? He had an idea on Monday. (1:10)What’s our first reaction? Sheng argues that the Sharks’ ill-constructed roster wasn’t on Quinn, but more on Grier. (4:33)So if not the roster, did Q

This week on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, we welcome ESPN senior NHL writer Greg Wyshynski! Greg recently made the case for Mike Grier for GM of the Year, and we had to dive into that, given some of the criticism we've heard recently about Grier (48:15). But before we get to Greg, we start our show with just how important it is that the San Jose Sharks have finished dead-last i

The Frozen Four starts on Thursday!Top San Jose Sharks prospect Will Smith will be part of it with Boston College.So we got Cam Robinson from Elite Prospects to talk about Smith. (53:06)Back during the World Juniors, Robinson tweeted:https://twitter.com/Hockey_Robinson/status/1742237537999945804Does Robinson still think that?Before Cam, we talk about the San Jose Sharks’ week tha