It didn’t take lengthy for the San Jose Sharks to get defenseman Henry Thrun underneath contract.
Someday after his season ended with the Harvard males’s hockey staff, Thrun signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Sharks, the staff introduced Saturday.
Thrun is straight away becoming a member of the Sharks roster and may very well be within the staff’s lineup as quickly as Tuesday when San Jose hosts the Winnipeg Jets.
Thrun’ contract, which expires after the 2023-24 season, carries, per CapFriendly, a $912,500 wage cap hit and a mean annual worth of $1,031,250.
Thrun had 33 factors, together with 26 assists, in 33 video games this season with Harvard, which superior to the NCAA Division I Event and misplaced 8-1 to Ohio State on Friday within the first spherical.
This season, Thrun, Harvard’s captain, was named ECAC Defensive Defenseman of the 12 months, First Group All-ECAC, and First Group All-Ivy League.
In three seasons at Harvard, the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Thrun had 84 factors in 99 video games. Thrun additionally performed the 2020-2021 season with Dubuque of the USHL, accumulating 22 factors in 24 video games. He was additionally a part of Group USA’s entry on the 2021 World Junior Championships.
Thrun, who turned 22 on March 12, was a fourth-round draft selection by the Anaheim Geese in 2019.
Thrun lately knowledgeable the Geese, although, that he wouldn't signal with them, prompting Anaheim to commerce him to the Sharks on Feb. 28 for a 2024 third-round draft choose. After 4 years, NCAA gamers can grow to be unrestricted free brokers if they continue to be unsigned. Thrun might have grow to be a UFA in August, free to signal with any staff.
In one other transaction Saturday, the Sharks assigned Nikolai Knyzhov to the Barracuda.
Knyzhov had one help in 9 video games with the Sharks since his recall from the AHL on March 5. Thursday in Vancouver, Knyzhov took two minor penalties and had a minus-4 ranking because the Sharks have been walloped 7-2 by the Canucks for his or her eighth-straight loss.
Knyzhov averaged 16:20 in ice time per recreation with the Sharks, however had performed lower than quarter-hour in every of the final three video games as he was slotted on the third protection pair.
Knyzhov’s March 6 recreation in Winnipeg marked his first NHL recreation since Could 12, 2021, as he battled quite a few accidents and setbacks for a lot of the final two years.
“Nikolai’s so exhausting on himself and generally when he doesn’t have an ideal shift that compounds itself and it turns into two or three robust shifts, simply because he cares a lot,” Sharks coach David Quinn stated.
“He lets one mistake flip into three or 4 and that’s a part of studying, that’s a part of development and once you miss two years of hockey, it’s not straightforward. We’re searching for him to only type of simplify issues and perform a little bit higher job studying, rushes and defending the center of the rink.
“I assumed he was little bit too aggressive outdoors the dots, as have been a bunch of our guys, for probably the most half (in Vancouver), however I’ve favored what I’ve seen thus far.”
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