re sharks review part left wings nlu xenon stanford edu nelson lu writes larry depalma season rd acquired free agent from minnesota grade i c d no netter fan watching the sharks including me knows where depalma was at the end of the season the sharks appeared to still have his rights but he wasn t in san jose he wasn t in kansas city and his name hasn t appeared on the waiver wire sorry nelson but you forgot to ask me if you check the thn stats for kansas city you ll find that larry has been playing for the games having played in games in the period covered in the stats between and the issue with pim not exactly invisible he then was sent down to kansas city walked out from there and was suspended and later reinstated when it was revealed that he was injured he then promptly disappeared from the watching eyes of shark bytes as the mailing list is now known to sharks officials faithful and neither the sharks nor we miss him well having gotten to a chance to talk to him a few times this isn t quite accurate he injured his back a disk injury and did one stupid thing which was to hide it from the sharks and he tried to play through it because he knew he was on the bubble the sharks then sent him to k c at which point he disclosed the injury since he didn t disclose it the sharks and he disagreed about the responsibility and he was suspended for not reporting that was eventually worked out the sharks re instated him as injured and put him into therapy and when he was able to play then shipped him down to k c he fully expects to play in the nhl again although clearly not with the sharks hiding injuries is a stupid no no beyond just a no no very nice guy always hustled his butt off he disappeared because he was hurt i expect he ll surface with another team at some point probably another expansion team but is likely to be a bubble player for the rest of his career has a good work ethic and is good at getting other players motivated unfortunately he played himself out of the sharks future with a bad judgement call john carter season th acquired free agent from boston grade i b b he is very unlikely to be back next season always gave best work ethic on the club except maybe kisio but hustle isn t always enough his future with the sharks was made clear to me one night against the flames when he went behind the crease and tried to hold joel otto against the board he literally had one arm around otto s neck and another wrapped around otto s stick arm otto casually turned around and fed the puck in front of the crease for a goal as though carter wasn t there hustle can only cover size so far the sharks have told me point blank that he s gone for good ditto hubie mcdonough he was one of the favorites of the staff but as one said to me you have to make room for the kids carter in fact refused to report to k c and has been suspended by the sharks that might be a defacto retirement but i haven t heard anything official his only hope in hockey now is the gulls jean francois quintin season st acquired from minnesota in dispersal draft grade i b b i don t understand why the sharks didn t let quintin play any more than the games he played this season because at least from the games i saw him in he was outmatched and looked fairly lost on the ice i think he shows potential but i didn t think he was quite ready to make the jump to the nhl he should be a solid contender for regular duty next season agreed btw i still think a lot of your grades are more based on how you wish they d performed than how they actually performed i wonder whether you can really judge talent from radio and television nelson i know i have trouble since you don t see the off puck action your views from home and my views from the ice differ in numerous ways mark beaufait season st acquired nd round pick in supplemental draft grade i after a all star season at kansas city beaufait got a cup of coffey with the coffee coffey is with the red wings dody wood season st acquired rd round pick in entry draft grade i d d although perhaps i shouldn t give a grade at all i have been accused of knocking on wood too much you nah he was seriously unimpressive even as a tough guy his rep however as few games as he had in a season that was at that point meaningless i hate to judge the talent too quickly butn in dody s case i m tempted to make an exception but i won t chuq imho von rospach esd support training dal aux chuq apple com member sfwa editor otherrealms genie mac bigot alink chuq minor league fans minors request medraut apple com san jose giants a san francisco giants fans giants request medraut apple com the stick not san jose sharks fans sharks request medraut apple com new seat tbd
