SAN JOSE – Sharks common supervisor Mike Grier introduced a handful of organizational hires Saturday, together with the addition of an NHL wage cap professional who helped create one among professional hockey’s most indispensable web sites.
The Sharks employed Dominik Zrim, the co-founder of CapFriendly, as their director of wage cap administration/collective bargaining settlement compliance. The Sharks didn't have somebody with that particular title when Grier was employed in July.
Zrim was with the Chicago Blackhawks for a part of final season, serving as their supervisor of hockey technique and helping the staff with its cap and contracts.
Zrim left the Blackhawks in February shortly after Chairman Rocky Wirtz’s outburst at a city corridor. Wirtz angrily responded to a reporter who requested what the group was doing to deal with the facility imbalance between gamers and coaches in mild of Kyle Seaside’s accusations of sexual assault by a former assistant coach. Wirtz later apologized.
Zrim, although, advised Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman in June that he left the Blackhawks “amicably and loved being there.” Zrim had been consulting for just a few groups since that point, with the Vancouver Canucks being a type of groups, per The Athletic.
CapFriendly, which started in 2015, has quite a few options, together with itemizing contract particulars of each NHL participant and every staff’s construction below the league’s wage cap.
The Sharks additionally employed A.J. Bernstein as a co-ordinator of hockey analytics. Bernstein, per the staff, can be “primarily tasked with buying, analyzing, and refining the staff’s analytics information.” He was beforehand at Middlebury School as an assistant coach and director of hockey operations till his commencement in 2021.
Bernstein has additionally consulted with the USHL’s Chicago Metal and NWHL’s Metropolitan Riveters, main the analytic efforts of each groups. He additionally labored as a technique marketing consultant for Accenture Federal Companies.
The Sharks additionally promoted Stephen DiLustro to director of power and conditioning, changing Mike Potenza, who joined the Golden State Warriors within the offseason.
DiLustro labored below Potenza because the assistant power and conditioning coach for the earlier 4 seasons. Brian Ganz, who served because the Barracuda’s power and conditioning coordinator in 2015-16, fills DiLustro’s spot because the Sharks’ assistant power and conditioning coach.
The Sharks additionally bolstered their scouting division with the rent of Martin Uhnak as a European scout. He'll oversee Czechia, Slovakia, Germany, and Switzerland.
Cody Ward was additionally employed as an assistant video coach. Ward labored with Sharks assistant coach Ryan Warsofsky final season as video coach of the AHL’s Chicago Wolves. Warsofsky was the staff’s head coach.
Grier has reworked the Sharks’ hockey operations division over the past three months, hiring nicely over a dozen new individuals in administration, participant improvement, scouting, and training. Earlier than the newest hires, the Sharks hockey operations division had grown from 29 to 35 people.