Most Incredible Stat for Each San Jose Sharks Star’s Career

August 12th, 2013 by MJ Kasprzak Leave a reply »
The San Jose Sharks entered this summer at a crossroads.

Three of the four leaders in minutes for their positions will play the entire 2013-14 season after their 34th birthdays. All are entering the last years of their contracts.

The Sharks have made it clear that Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski (fourth and second among forwards in minutes in 2013, respectively) are part of their future. They signed the youngest first before matching it for the one American Olympian shortly after his 29th birthday.

San Jose made similar commitments to Marc-Edouard Vlasic (second in blue-line minutes) and Brent Burns (a top player in either position) in the previous two summers. Their extensions, which were signed almost exactly one year before their previous deals expired, came in at five years and over $21 million but under market value.

The new core is in place through the 2017 fiscal year. It will be tough for the team to sign any new big contracts because of the cap hits of that core even with the salary cap expected to go up and the Sharks being able to dump the $5 million they pay for Martin Havlat.

That may mean someone from the core ...

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