The San Jose Sharks’ rebuild is over!
Hate it or love it, this is GM Mike Grier’s vision for a winning Sharks team: He signed Jacob Trouba and Mason Marchment to big deals, and traded for Darnell Nurse.
NHL Network’s Jason Demers shares his thoughts — also, read and watch more of Demers’s thoughts on the San Jose Sharks at The Bite:
https://substack.com/@thebitejd
https://www.youtube.com/@jasondemers55
Demers and the San Jose Hockey Now team like what Grier is doing, though we all recognize the risks.
We also say good-bye to Mario Ferraro and discuss Ivar Stenberg’s impressive showing so far at development camp.
00:00:00 Introduction: The Rebuild Is Over
00:01:58 Jason Demers’s Nurse & Trouba Thoughts
00:05:04 What Should San Jose Sharks’ D-Pairings Be?
00:08:33 Why Darnell Nurse & Jacob Trouba Contract Lengths Make Sense
00:11:56 Zubair & Demers Are Thinking Playoffs!
00:13:39 Sharks on Two Timelines
00:19:56 Mike Grier Taking Calculated Risks
00:23:08 What Do Scouts Think of Nurse & Trouba?
00:27:42 Nurse & Trouba Aren’t Perfect But They’re Upgrades
00:29:59 Get Excited, Sharks Fans!
00:32:37 Judge Grier in a Year
00:39:02 Thoughts on Mason Marchment
00:40:35 Next Areas of Focus for Sharks?
00:45:08 Goodbye Mario Ferraro
00:50:16 Could Nurse Bounce Back?
00:54:11 Why Sign Eric Comrie?
00:56:50 Risks Getting Lower Each Off-Season
00:57:41 Excitement Watching Ivar Stenberg
I literally couldn't listen to other sharks podcasts yesterday the freak out is so cringy from a fanbase who has begging to get better on the backend
In 3 /4 years when we havent won a cup and can't pay the young guys their new contracts and have to trade them away, and take a step back in personnel, they will very much be saying negative things about those trades.
They should've taken care of celebrini and smiths contracts this year
Jason Demers is the TRUTH
Cagnoni needs to be in that lower d pair.
I guess my biggest issue is their taking on the Nurse contract, so Edmonton can sign Shea for $4.5m.
Coach Daddy is a solid listen here. Always appreciate his insight
I have never been so mad at the sharks fan base. It is wild how casuals think they know how to GM and lose faith so fast in ours. People look at value of the player per $ spent because that is easy. Being a GM is not just looking at the economics. The fact is there were no good deals yesterday so the options are do nothing or use our resource that we have in abundance to make the team better. Grier did the right thing. 3-4 years from now there will be teams who want to improve by taking on a 1-2 year Trouba or Nurse. There is no downside here. Amazing day yesterday. Love GMMG through and through.
Sheng when other people are talking : Interrupting non stop
Sheng when getting interrupted that one time : Hold on let me finish!
insufferable human being
If you think about we got nurse from oilers we got trouba from ducks we got tof from kings we got players from almost every team in our division that have knowledge on how those team work and how they can be beat.
Nurse sukks
One thing I thought of, which I haven't heard others think about (though I'm only halfway through you video), is this gives a huge help in front of Askarov. This feels like giving him a real shot and chance to grow into the goalie we hope he'll become.
Hilarious how emotional fans panic so easily. GMMG is deliberately building a balanced ‘playoff capable’ team. The notion of veterans blocking young players is silly. Prospects will get their play time when they have been assessed professionally to be ready. Fans crying out to give prospects playtime is literally just wishful thinking hoping they would perform. Player development is tricky otherwise every highly touted prospect is a superstar.
its not over until nurse gets shipped out, still desperately waiting for the second half of the nurse deal because no way are we actually gonna play that overpaid pylon 😂
Thanks for the discussion and fun. The contracts are expensive, but the addition physicality was needed in a big way. We won’t need to win games 6-5.
Mike Greer signed veteran defensemen without trading away valuable assets. Would you want to trade Wil Smith, Sam Dickenson and two first round picks for Werinski?
Truba is an intimidating defenseman. Nurse is a good big defenseman that negotiated a great yearly salary for himself. Big defensemen can protect the front of the net better than Mario Ferraro. And yes at the last years of their deals the vets can be traded to make room for the new young defensemen.
When the Sharks win more games and make the playoffs all these concerns will be forgotten.
The other key point is Truba, Nurse and Marchment ADD physical grit with skill. The Sharks won't have Reeves to protect the skilled players.
MOAR JD!
37:39 LOUDER, FOR THE PEOPLE ON TIK TOK
People freaking out about the last year of the Nurse/Trouba contracts make me laugh because there will always be a rebuilding team that will take a one year cap dump for a mid-round pick.
$9.2M/Yr for Nurse minus $4M for Ferraro (signed with Winnipeg) means you are paying $5.2M/Yr to upgrade to Nurse a bigger D!
I am not concerned at all. Next 4 years we need to get our young players playoff experience so they understand what it takes. Once Macklin has that, I dont see a team he couldnt drag to a cup.
Sharks can sign McDavid, Werenski, and Makar and people will still bitch. In Grier I Trust.
Sharks better make it to playoffs next year. If not, fans will start having doubts on Grier'e plans.
Trust Grier and company sharks fans. Let's not panic. Let's also remember the money from couture is coming off the books. We had to reach the cap floor. But we got toughness to protect the youngsters.
Sheng, so not forget the owner of this team is turning 83 during the season, I bet he also wants to see playoff before he is gone
Really great podcasts guys. I loved JD breaking down why this make so much sense for the Sharks at this stage of their development. Sheng, you were very funny in this episode. Sheng and Z, you guys said you really like the moves that Greir made but don't love it. What could Greir done differently that would have made you love it? We would have to give up too much for Werenski and we are not ready as a team to fully utilize his talents.
Pressing play now hoping JD talks me off the ledge
Why is there no discussion at all of Dickinson QBing the PP? Didn’t he score like the most points by a defensemen ever in his last season in London? That’s not an option? Obviously young and needs to improve, but like surely there’s something there
I have a huge commentary crush on JD
Sharks went out an got an Iron curtain to protect the youngsters. Respect 🙏
Knights v. Sharks just got nastier
The trades were good, I just didn't like giving up Muk but maybe there was competition and that's what it took. But Shea was available for cheaper too I think as a ufa, so idk what happened there. Money is a nonissue. We should have a better dcore than before which should be enough for playoffs. I don't see that much improvement in our rivals with Ducks defense looking thin, LA signing old men and seeing who survives, hoping Babcock babcock's. Everything is primed for us to be a sleeper team. Bold prediction? Conference finals.
16:42 😂
If I didnt know any better,the way the Sharks fans are reacting, one would think Mike Grier brought in a couple of serial killers. Wow!! Its crazy man. Sharks are going to be just fine.
The problem with the Nurse and Trouba deals is not the money. It's the length of the contracts. These guys probably have two more good years in them. After that you might have very expensive bottom pairing d-men. Of course they may surprise me and not decline at all, but that isn't common. And how do you squeeze in the young d-men who should be ready by then?