The San Jose Sharks have quite a few questions to answer during free agency this summer. However finding a number one center shouldn’t be one of them with 2018 – 2019 being the year that Tomas Hertl blossomed into the player Team Teal knew they drafted back in 2012.
Flashback to last summer during free agency the San Jose Sharks were prepared to throw ridiculous amounts of money in return for the services of John Tavares. However their offer got rejected and Tavares ultimately signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs for a monster deal.
This forced General Manager Doug Wilson to rethink his approach to roster construction and eventually deciding to extend their 2012 first round pick Tomas Hertl to a 4 year 5,625,000 AAV .