Ryan Warsofsky has what seems like a fairly simple solution for the San Jose Sharks.
Find more players who worry as much as Tyler Toffoli.
“The goal of the goal is one thing, but what he does for our costumes as a leader, helping these young players,” said the Sharks coach after Toffoli scored the 30th goal of the leading season in the team in the 5-2 defeat of the sharks against Calgary Flames.
“As much as (he) wants to write down, he hears.
Toffoli, a Stanley Cup champion now in his 13th NHL season, knew that reconstruction sharks would experience some growth pain in 2024-25 when he decided to sign a four-year contract and $ 24 million with the team on the first day of free agency.
Indeed, that is exactly what happened, since the sharks enter their game on Monday against the Vancouver Canucks with 51 low points of the League. For the second consecutive year, sharks will have a 25.5% chance to win the NHL draft lottery next month.
Toffoli and everyone else in Teal expect it to be the last time the sharks have such probabilities. The main office of the team, the coaches and the players of the room will have to make sure that they do not experience a year like this.
“I think honestly, looking back, we have been in so many games this year and has generated so many potential customers stupidly,” Toffoli said. “I think that if everyone reflects in the right summer and arrive at the training camp next year, it can be a different consumer season.”
The inclination of sharks for defensive lapses and the crises of the third period this season has been epic. San José has 6-10-2 when tied after two periods, in addition to being 12-8-4 when he leads after 40 minutes.
In 80 games, sharks have been overcome 108-74 in the third period (17 of the opposition objectives are empty network).
In the first period on Sunday, the sharks (20-49-11) were their worst enemy in the defensive zone, renouncing a pair or preventive objectives. San José fell into the early third period and never recovered.
When asked about facing a desperate flame team that needed a victory to keep their hopes of playoffs alive, Toffoli said: “We should also be a desperate team. We also have boys who play for positions for the next Marsy.
Toffoli became the third player in the history of sharks to register 30 goals in his first season in San José, joining Dany Heatley (39 in 2009-10) and Sergei Makarov (30 in 1993-94).
Toffoli scored 34 goals as a member of The Flames in 2022-23 and 33 last season, when he started the year with the New Jersey Devils before being changed to Winnipeg’s jets.
The 97 Toffoli goals in the last three seasons are tied in the 29th more in the League at that time.
“I am proud and give me the very fortunate opportunity to play with really good players, and obviously trying to take advantage of my situation,” Toffoli said about goals skill. “And I wish it was more.”
Sharks appear to assign some of a wide salary space this summer to address their objective prevention problems, either by bringing another bidirectional, a veteran defender, a proven goalkeeper or all three.
The scary goals differential in Monday’s game is a league sausage -101, 29 more than the Blackhawks Chicago. Even before pleading with the sale of the deadline prior to trade, starting with the sending of Mikael Granlund and Cody Ceci to the stars of Dallas on February 1, the scary differential of the sharks was still the last one in the NHL A -61.
Add a punctuation coup to help support Toffoli and Esters, either this summer or next, should also have some attractiveness to the main shark office.
While the organization is optimistic that Macklin Celebini, Will Smith, William Eklund and Collin Graf can take another offensive step next season, finding another scorer end at some point Wolder helps accumulate the reconstruction of sharks. Before Monday, sharks were 31 in average goals per game (2.59).
Toffoli turns 33 at the end of this month and does not do it because waiting for much more for sharks to become a contender again. Neinder makes any other person in his team.
“Personally, time is a child or runs out in that regard,” Toffoli said last month. “I am the son of the hope of returning to the mixture here next year, if not in the following year.”