An annoyance I’m sure the Sharks have about retooling on the fly is that the draft picks you’re working with, largely, might not be your own. Ahead of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Sharks general manager Doug Wilson has just two of the Sharks’ seven original picks. In making up for that, Wilson has acquired five picks, leaving the Sharks without a pick in rounds three, four and six.
So where did the Sharks’ picks go?
Well, there’s the first-round pick that no one could have predicted would become a lottery pick in 2020. It was traded to the Ottawa Senators as part of the package to acquire Erik Karlsson, a trade you make again every time and twice on Tuesdays — though maybe next time around it’d be lottery protected.