The Sharks hope they’ve discovered one other ahead who can problem for a roster spot subsequent season, signing former Ottawa Senators winger Max Veronneau to a one-year, two-way contract.
Per a supply, the deal is value $750,000 on the NHL degree.
Veronneau, 26, was the Swedish Hockey League’s main purpose scorer this season with 34 and was second with 60 factors for Leksands IF, and was named the SHL’s Most Invaluable Participant.
Veronneau starred at Princeton for 4 seasons from 2015 to 2019 earlier than he started his skilled profession. An Ottawa native, he had 4 factors in 16 NHL video games over two seasons with the Senators to go along with 10 factors in 36 video games within the AHL.
Veronneau has spent the final two seasons within the SHL. After he collected 18 factors in 25 video games for Oskarshamn in 2020-21, he broke out with Leksands to earn one other probability at taking part in in North America.
“Max had a fantastic season this 12 months in Europe,” stated Shin Larsson, the Sharks’ supervisor of European scouting, in an announcement. “He has produced at each degree offensively and beforehand was an ECAC Champion with Princeton. We stay up for him becoming a member of our group.”
The Sharks have mined European leagues without cost brokers for a number of years. Not each participant has labored out, however a number of the success tales embody Joonas Donskoi, Melker Karlsson, Marcus Sorensen, and Radim Simek.
Having Veronneau presumably evolve right into a top-nine ahead could be a boon to a Sharks workforce that’s searching for gamers on economical contracts to contribute subsequent season. Per CapFriendly, the Sharks have already got about $70 million tied up in contracts for 15 gamers subsequent season, with the NHL wage cap set at $82.5 million.
Veronneau, a local of Ottawa, Ontario, is listed at 6-foot and 190-pounds.
THURSDAY’S LINEUP: Winger Jonathan Dahlen can be a wholesome scratch for Thursday’s recreation with the Chicago Blackhawks on the United Heart, because the Sharks — trying to snap a seven-game shedding skid — are dressing seven defensemen and 11 forwards.
Dahlen has had lower than 10 minutes of ice time in every of his final 4 video games, together with 6:10 on Saturday in Vancouver and seven:33 on Tuesday in Nashville.
Dahlen, 24, is the Sharks’ rookie chief in factors with 22 in 55 video games as he spent the primary a part of the season within the workforce’s top-six ahead group. However Dahlen has simply two factors in 15 video games because the all-star break as he’s handled accidents and inconsistency in his play.
“For him, it’s been a tricky second half with accidents and never having the ability to get again to that type he had in the beginning of the 12 months,” Sharks coach Bob Boughner stated. “It’s been a little bit of a grind.”
The Sharks shut out their highway journey with video games towards Dallas and Minnesota on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Dahlen had 71 factors in 45 video games for Timra in Sweden final season when he was named the Allsvenskan’s prime ahead for the third time. To get again inside the highest Sharks six or prime 9, Boughner stated he needs to see Dahlen attempt to create extra probabilities, play with extra urgency, and improve his battle degree.
“I stated this way back to a commerce deadline, there’s going to be younger guys getting alternatives and it’s the veterans’ job to make it a tough determination as to who’s coming in and who’s popping out,” Boughner stated.
“When you’re one of many guys that doesn't make the lineup, you then have a look at your self and say, ‘I have to not have made it a tough determination on the coaches to maintain me in.’ It’s a bit little bit of self-reflection and discovering a method to keep within the lineup each night time, actually.”
BOUGHNER ON BORDELEAU: Boughner stated he noticed elements of the Barracuda recreation with Bakersfield on Wednesday when middle Thomas Bordeleau, one of many workforce’s prime prospects, made his AHL debut.
Bordeleau had three assists in San Jose’s 6-3 loss however Boughner stated the 20-year-old’s all-around recreation was additionally spectacular to those that watched from begin to end.
“There are plenty of good issues to say about him,” Boughner stated of Bordeleau. “I do know he’s in on all three targets however they stated he was very accountable, and you possibly can inform he was a sensible participant, that he’s studying the sport. He’s not dishonest on the offensive aspect of the puck to get the offense going. He performed a really good recreation and for first professional recreation, fairly spectacular.”