San Jose is creating teal cool after getting all the way into the Cup final last year. Although some roster weaknesses were made abundantly clear in their six games with the Penguins at the final string for Lord Stanley’s mug, the Sharks were right on the brink of winning their first franchise Stanley Cup. They addressed some of the demands from the offseason and unless era starts to catch up to them, they should be in fantastic position to make another deep playoff run.
The front office didn’t reinvent the wheel on the summer but it didn’t lose some dead weight and also added a forwards in Mikkel Boedker who seems like a perfect match on the secondary scoring unit for the Sharks. Marty Jones proved he has what it takes to be a No. 1 backstop last season with his 37 wins and .918 save percentage and will likely be asked to play 70-plus games for the Fish if he remains healthy — a first-round pick for Jones now seems like a steal.
Have a look at a few of the Sharks’ futures chances for the upcoming season.
Stanley Cup +1600
A number of you may be hot on the Sharks once they dropped just two wins short of winning their initial franchise Stanley Cup last year but think about this. Pete DeBoer, head coach of the Sharks, has qualified for the playoffs just two times within his eight-year NHL coaching career. Though he left the finals in both those postseason appearances, he has no Stanley Cup rings and actually missed the playoffs the year after his team last made it into the Cup final.
Nevertheless, San Jose is one of my favorite value plays 16/1. The educated vets on this team have become steeped in playoff experience and seem to have shed the label of chokers. If Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau can donate 50 percent of what they did last year and save some gasoline for the playoffs, this group may be a postseason nightmare.
Western Conference +750
This is a great play. Although teams don’t win back-to-back Western Conference championships very often — it’s happened only three times since 1994 — I am just considering two teams in Western Seminar futures: that one, along with the Dallas Stars.
The West has become a place where traditional drama has been greatly outshined by firepower and the Sharks are freaking gunslingers. They had been also the fourth-highest scoring team in the league last season but were totally deadly with the man advantage and scored a league-high 59 on the power play. If Jones can just be solid, this team is going places — good places, I’m hoping.
Pacific Division +260
The Sharks finished third in their division with 98 points last season but should have no trouble eclipsing that metric in 2016-17 if they enhance only slightly at home. Though they were the very best road team in the show last season (28-10-3), San Jose finished with a dismal 18-20-3 record in their own construction.
That terrible home album was nothing more than an anomaly. The Sharks actually outscored their opponents 73-65 in the SAP Center last season and were on the wrong side of many one-goal games. Jones might need to increase in SoCal if the Sharks want to run away with all the Pacific like they could — San Jose had the fourth-worst home save percentage in the league last year.
Complete Season Points OVER/UNDER 100.5
If you’ve taken in anything I have written up to now, you will know I feel that the OVER here is a simple bet. This group could have challenged the Capitals for the Presidents’ Trophy had they not lost so many close games at home.
Brent Burns Norris Trophy +700
Brent”The Beard” Burns, what a hockey player this guy is. He paced all defensemen in goals last season with 27 while also leading ALL skaters in person Corsi, yet he received only three first-place votes to the Norris. The voting for the very best defenseman is obviously a little wonky — and skewed toward larger markets — but you have to believe Burns has paid his dues and ought to be a shoo-in if he has another season like he did in 2015-16 and if the Sharks are as good as I think they will be.

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