Marco was and will always be a favorite of mine! Just a good person as this interview brought out. Definitely disappointed he wasn’t selected by Grier, but he will be a head coach sooner than later.
Hey Boys, Marco has always been one of "my guys" and I get emotional every time I think about him. A couple of things for you: 1) I would love Marco to be the Sharks head coach but, NOT NOW! This team is not ready to be successful and if Marco were hired it would absolutely break my heart to see him get the Quinn treatment! For that reason I am glad he was not hired. Marco said he is ready to be a head coach in the NHL and I take him at his word but, the Sharks aren't ready to have him as head coach. I will always hope that a day will come when we can welcome Marco home as our new head coach when the time is right. Does this mean that I think Coach Warzofsky is going to fail? Yes, I do. This team is still at least 3 years away from being capable of contending for a play off spot in my opinion assuming that the Sharks deal with a normal amount of NHL adversity over that time span (i.e., injuries, players underperforming/underdeveloping per expectations, etc.). 2) I have a Marco moment for you from back in the day when I met Marco and its pretty funny. I don't know if you guys were around when Marco was a rookie but, I was a fan back then and Marco was definitely one of my guys from the begining. You might recall that when Marco came into the league the Sharks used to have an annual festival during the last 3rd of the season (approximately) called Fanfest where the players would be spread out around the arena with the coaches and broadcasters and you would get an official team photo for the season and you could go around and get autographs and meet the players, coaches and broadcasters. As I mentioned this was later in the season which was hard on the players because they have to report on an off day to shake hands, sign crap and smile for pictures and what not when all they really want is to chill and recover before their next game! Marco's rookie season he was set up in the TV broadcast booth right on the rail ensconced between Ken Sutton (a veteran player who only played sporadically) and Kelly Hrudy with young Marco in the middle protected. By the end of the event in the mid to late aftrenoonish you can imagine how tired all the players were and how ready to get the hell out of there and go home to relax. The Sharks had us snaking our way from above through the seats down to our right before we took a short flight of steps down and turned to our left along the railing to meet the guys in succession before we left with our signatures. It was a warm day and we are all tired too. There was a lady with a little kid in a stroller a few people in front of me and it took about 35 minutes to work your way down the seats until we got to where Marco and the boys were waiting to meet us. About 3 rows or so from the stairs down to meet the guys that little kid in the stroller starts going OFF havinng a major melt down and it's a nightmare. Nobody was talking anymore even the plaeyrs. I know I was thinking and I am sure many of the others including the players were thinking "lady please take your kid and go outside! Please!" That lady would not go though. She persisted treating us all to this ear splitting meltdown for the bettwe part of 15 minutes or so. It was horrible. Finally that lady reaches the floor in front of the players and we are all waiting as she is navigating that stroller into position so she can go past the players. There is a brief hold up while she is doing this and the players are now right below me as I am in the last part of the line about 4 people from being able to take the stairs down to get my autographs. I am literally right over Marco's 19 year old head and it just came to me what to do. I loudly called down to Marco: "Marco! What did you do?" I think I startled him a little but, instinctively he looked up at me looking down on him and said with his German accent: "I didn't do nothing?" And everybody roared with laughter including that lady for a few moments. I said it loudly enough that everyone left in line and all the players below could hear it and Marco responded loud enough that I think everyone heard it. It was very funny and makes me smile every time I recall it. Marco Sturm...my guy! Thanks boys for such a wonderful interview, Peter St. John Clovis, CA
The Blues sweetened the pot to complete the offer sheet by sending the Oilers another 3rd round pick and a mid-round prospect. I don't think the Oilers would have had leverage to ask for anything more without offloading Ceci first to make matching the offer sheet a legitimate threat. The Blues end up paying the price for the Oilers to dump Ceci. Also we got Askarov!!
One thing to consider is that with Ceci, he could pair with the Sharks young defensemen that most likely will play (Thrun and Shakir). Being Ceci plays on the right and the aforementioned young players (Thrun and Shakir) this seems to work out. The other great options the Sharks had before the trade would be? Benning after a full year of no games? I do not think so. Rutta? Maybe, but Ceci is better or if we kept Emberson? Nope! I think the moves help the Sharks develop the players they have more faith in (Thrun and Shakir). One more thought. There is a player no one talks about, Thompson. They traded for him and he was a highly rated AHL defensemen (like Emberson) and they might believe he will be a better player than Emberson once developed. Also, when they traded for him he was supposed to be ready to play games in the NHL. So this might allow him to get games when having Emberson would not have allowed for that. With all trades, lets look at it again in a year or so. I agree with the character thing as well. They are trying to build a culture for the young players and he will definitely help with that.
IMO, if Ty Emberson is a future top 4 defenseman…that’s fine. Sign him next summer when he’s a UFA. There’s basically no risk to this trade, the Sharks upgrade a defenseman, and receive a 3rd round pick for their troubles.
It’s more likely he hits waivers again and the Sharks can take him back for free. Edmonton isn’t trusting their cup contender to a 2nd year D with 30 games experience.
@@SharkFan93 100 percent. Especially if they now have the cap space flexibility to bring in a true top 4 defenseman. That would put Emberson in the bottom 6 and on the bubble for possibly heading to Bakersfield. Let’s be real: Broberg is a better young defenseman with a higher ceiling and even he had a tough time sticking with the team.
Look what happened with Adin Hill, Kaapo, and what we got Blackie for? That’s why u don’t trade for a goalie. Edstrom had one shot off the post in the dev camp and I saw a 300 goal scorer in this league! I still can’t believe Sway is still out there… he’d be worth futures in draft capital to me. I get attached to players once drafted. We have a projected core coming up that we shouldn’t mess with… draft goalies higher in the coming years, offer sheet Sway or stay with Blackie who showed he has swagger… if a goalie is good they may get burnt out without good D-men in front of them 😅
I loved Nabby as a goalie. But since he come on board as a coach, our goaltending has been below average. I don't know if he belongs in his role with the Sharks.
agreed Zetterlund might be the target for Nashville if they arent interested in Ferraro or Ceci, I personally would be willing to give up Zetterlund as part of a Askarov trade
If this askarov situation happened a year or two later no doubt the sharks would try to bite. Askarov would hate the sharks situation and the desperate need for a tank and a top 4-5 pick (shaefer, martone, frondell) says to me we're out of this trade.
Askarov does not care where he goes he just wants to play in the NHL, and the sharks are trending in the right direction and they would give him all the opportunities to establish himself as an NHL starter. while contenders wouldn't trust him as a starter maybe not even in a backup role.
@@Retr-vc4wn I know nothing about where he would want to go so that may be true, but basing off all the comments on immaturity and hot-headedness I would assume getting blown out 10-0 and the worst D corp in the league could trigger him. If he would be assigned to the cuda as sheng suggested then maybe?
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Loved Marco Sturm. Makes me happy to hear he really enjoyed playing for us and didn't want to leave.
Marco was and will always be a favorite of mine! Just a good person as this interview brought out. Definitely disappointed he wasn’t selected by Grier, but he will be a head coach sooner than later.
love the show...keep up the good work
Nice to hear you Guys again👍
Hey Boys,
Marco has always been one of "my guys" and I get emotional every time I think about him. A couple of things for you:
1) I would love Marco to be the Sharks head coach but, NOT NOW! This team is not ready to be successful and if Marco were hired it would absolutely break my heart to see him get the Quinn treatment! For that reason I am glad he was not hired. Marco said he is ready to be a head coach in the NHL and I take him at his word but, the Sharks aren't ready to have him as head coach. I will always hope that a day will come when we can welcome Marco home as our new head coach when the time is right.
Does this mean that I think Coach Warzofsky is going to fail? Yes, I do. This team is still at least 3 years away from being capable of contending for a play off spot in my opinion assuming that the Sharks deal with a normal amount of NHL adversity over that time span (i.e., injuries, players underperforming/underdeveloping per expectations, etc.).
2) I have a Marco moment for you from back in the day when I met Marco and its pretty funny.
I don't know if you guys were around when Marco was a rookie but, I was a fan back then and Marco was definitely one of my guys from the begining. You might recall that when Marco came into the league the Sharks used to have an annual festival during the last 3rd of the season (approximately) called Fanfest where the players would be spread out around the arena with the coaches and broadcasters and you would get an official team photo for the season and you could go around and get autographs and meet the players, coaches and broadcasters.
As I mentioned this was later in the season which was hard on the players because they have to report on an off day to shake hands, sign crap and smile for pictures and what not when all they really want is to chill and recover before their next game!
Marco's rookie season he was set up in the TV broadcast booth right on the rail ensconced between Ken Sutton (a veteran player who only played sporadically) and Kelly Hrudy with young Marco in the middle protected. By the end of the event in the mid to late aftrenoonish you can imagine how tired all the players were and how ready to get the hell out of there and go home to relax.
The Sharks had us snaking our way from above through the seats down to our right before we took a short flight of steps down and turned to our left along the railing to meet the guys in succession before we left with our signatures. It was a warm day and we are all tired too.
There was a lady with a little kid in a stroller a few people in front of me and it took about 35 minutes to work your way down the seats until we got to where Marco and the boys were waiting to meet us.
About 3 rows or so from the stairs down to meet the guys that little kid in the stroller starts going OFF havinng a major melt down and it's a nightmare. Nobody was talking anymore even the plaeyrs. I know I was thinking and I am sure many of the others including the players were thinking "lady please take your kid and go outside! Please!"
That lady would not go though. She persisted treating us all to this ear splitting meltdown for the bettwe part of 15 minutes or so. It was horrible. Finally that lady reaches the floor in front of the players and we are all waiting as she is navigating that stroller into position so she can go past the players. There is a brief hold up while she is doing this and the players are now right below me as I am in the last part of the line about 4 people from being able to take the stairs down to get my autographs.
I am literally right over Marco's 19 year old head and it just came to me what to do. I loudly called down to Marco: "Marco! What did you do?" I think I startled him a little but, instinctively he looked up at me looking down on him and said with his German accent: "I didn't do nothing?" And everybody roared with laughter including that lady for a few moments. I said it loudly enough that everyone left in line and all the players below could hear it and Marco responded loud enough that I think everyone heard it. It was very funny and makes me smile every time I recall it.
Marco Sturm...my guy!
Thanks boys for such a wonderful interview,
Peter St. John
Clovis, CA
The Blues sweetened the pot to complete the offer sheet by sending the Oilers another 3rd round pick and a mid-round prospect. I don't think the Oilers would have had leverage to ask for anything more without offloading Ceci first to make matching the offer sheet a legitimate threat. The Blues end up paying the price for the Oilers to dump Ceci.
Also we got Askarov!!
Yer gonna talk about Askarov next week??
Doesn't Edmonton need cap space for Draisaitl next offseason?
One thing to consider is that with Ceci, he could pair with the Sharks young defensemen that most likely will play (Thrun and Shakir). Being Ceci plays on the right and the aforementioned young players (Thrun and Shakir) this seems to work out.
The other great options the Sharks had before the trade would be? Benning after a full year of no games? I do not think so. Rutta? Maybe, but Ceci is better or if we kept Emberson? Nope!
I think the moves help the Sharks develop the players they have more faith in (Thrun and Shakir).
One more thought. There is a player no one talks about, Thompson. They traded for him and he was a highly rated AHL defensemen (like Emberson) and they might believe he will be a better player than Emberson once developed.
Also, when they traded for him he was supposed to be ready to play games in the NHL. So this might allow him to get games when having Emberson would not have allowed for that.
With all trades, lets look at it again in a year or so.
I agree with the character thing as well. They are trying to build a culture for the young players and he will definitely help with that.
Cease played with and defended against in practice McDavid, Sid and Matthews.
Love Sturm
If warf wasn't our coach I wish it was him
IMO, if Ty Emberson is a future top 4 defenseman…that’s fine. Sign him next summer when he’s a UFA. There’s basically no risk to this trade, the Sharks upgrade a defenseman, and receive a 3rd round pick for their troubles.
??? he will be an RFA for the oilers, he only becomes a UFA if he plays less than 50 games this upcoming season.....
@@elem3ntals just going off of what I saw on Puckpedia.
It’s more likely he hits waivers again and the Sharks can take him back for free. Edmonton isn’t trusting their cup contender to a 2nd year D with 30 games experience.
@@SharkFan93 100 percent. Especially if they now have the cap space flexibility to bring in a true top 4 defenseman. That would put Emberson in the bottom 6 and on the bubble for possibly heading to Bakersfield.
Let’s be real: Broberg is a better young defenseman with a higher ceiling and even he had a tough time sticking with the team.
Look what happened with Adin Hill, Kaapo, and what we got Blackie for? That’s why u don’t trade for a goalie. Edstrom had one shot off the post in the dev camp and I saw a 300 goal scorer in this league! I still can’t believe Sway is still out there… he’d be worth futures in draft capital to me. I get attached to players once drafted. We have a projected core coming up that we shouldn’t mess with… draft goalies higher in the coming years, offer sheet Sway or stay with Blackie who showed he has swagger… if a goalie is good they may get burnt out without good D-men in front of them 😅
Doug Wilson traded Marco Sturm and Brad Stuart when he had high value for one Superstar. Boston knew they were getting good players.
You had to cut it again because of news. ;)
I loved Nabby as a goalie. But since he come on board as a coach, our goaltending has been below average. I don't know if he belongs in his role with the Sharks.
I tend to agree w you
Nashville is in win now mode. They want a current NHL player in their prime, not a prospect. Zetterlund?
agreed Zetterlund might be the target for Nashville if they arent interested in Ferraro or Ceci, I personally would be willing to give up Zetterlund as part of a Askarov trade
Hell… no.
If this askarov situation happened a year or two later no doubt the sharks would try to bite. Askarov would hate the sharks situation and the desperate need for a tank and a top 4-5 pick (shaefer, martone, frondell) says to me we're out of this trade.
You must not have been paying attention this whole off-season the tank is over
@@SharkFan93 Oh really? Lets look at our D, top six, and goalie. Doesn't look over to me. As good as celly is he isn't scoring 100pts like sid
Askarov does not care where he goes he just wants to play in the NHL, and the sharks are trending in the right direction and they would give him all the opportunities to establish himself as an NHL starter. while contenders wouldn't trust him as a starter maybe not even in a backup role.
@@Retr-vc4wn I know nothing about where he would want to go so that may be true, but basing off all the comments on immaturity and hot-headedness I would assume getting blown out 10-0 and the worst D corp in the league could trigger him. If he would be assigned to the cuda as sheng suggested then maybe?