Erika Towne

San Jose

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Writer, journalist, and disappointed Sharks fan. Bay Area born and raised. Silicon Valley Voice. Santa Clara Weekly

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2025 NHL Draft: The case for Michael Misa

1 week ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

In our 2025 NHL Draft preview, we’ve explored our ideal option based on need for the San Jose Sharks, defenseman Matthew Schaefer, and we’ve explored a player that has an outside shot of becoming the number two overall pick, forward Anton Frondell. However, it’s nearly a consensus among pundits that if the Sharks are selecting the second-best player in the NHL draft, then the team is selecting Michael Misa.
2024 NHL Draft: The case for Matthew Schaefer

1 week ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

While Matthew Schaefer is the presumed number one overall pick and likely to be drafted by the New York Islanders on draft day, you can never truly predict what a team is going to do. Take, for instance, last season when the Anaheim Ducks selected Beckett Sennecke third overall or when Shane Wright fell to fourth overall in the 2022 draft. The point is, you can’t always tell what the team in front of you is going to do.
2025 player review Marc-Edouard Vlasic: One more season

1 week ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

The most senior defenseman on the San Jose Sharks this season, Marc-Edouard Vlasic barely makes the cut in terms of our player reviews. Injuries kept him out of the lineup for a majority of the season and it was only much later in the season, January, when he was considered healthy enough to play for the team. In total, Vlasic played 27 games for the Sharks last season.
2024-25 player review Mario Ferraro: Future captain or trade bait?

1 week ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

Somewhere in the past three or four seasons, Mario Ferraro went from being the young rookie on a veteran blueline to the elder statesman. Ferraro, as of this writing, is the third-oldest defenseman under contract for the Sharks in the 2025-26 season. Only Vincent Desharnais (28) and Marc-Edouard Vlasic (38) are older.
2025 player reviews: Goaltenders

1 week ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

The purpose of these reviews is to give fans an idea of the current Sharks roster, how they stacked up this past season and how they are expected to perform in the season to come. We focus on players who have played 20 games or more because it gives us a large enough sample size to work with and gain a more accurate picture of the player we’re evaluating.
2025 player review Timothy Liljegren: Good supporting cast

2 weeks ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

Since trading away both Brent Burns and Erik Karlsson, the San Jose Sharks have needed a solid upgrade on the right side of the team’s blueline. The Sharks had hoped to get it in 2024, when it added Jack Thompson, a right-shot defenseman who couldn’t seem to break through in Tampa Bay. But Thompson didn’t give the team the offensive thrust it was looking for, so, on Oct.
Flashback Friday: San Jose Sharks 2020 NHL Entry Re-Draft

2 weeks ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

As the San Jose Sharks prepare for the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, we have a bit of time to take a look at what happened five years ago. With 20/20 hindsight, we’re not only looking at who the Sharks drafted, but who the team could have drafted instead. We realize this is a silly endeavor in that it assumes that San Jose is the only team with the benefit of hindsight. That means that at times, we’re holding off on drafting the best player until we absolutely have to.
Celebrini comes in third in Calder voting

2 weeks ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

San Jose Sharks rookie Macklin Celebrini finished third in the Calder Trophy voting, according to the NHL announcement on June 10, finishing behind Montreal Canadiens rookie defenseman Lane Hutson and Calgary Flames rookie goaltender Dustin Wolf. Hutson was well ahead of the pack with 1,832 points. Wolf was second with 1,169 points and Celebrini was third, just 65 points behind Wolf. Voting table for the Calder Memorial Trophy, won by #Habs defender Lane Hutson.
2025 player review Barclay Goodrow: Borderline fourth-liner

3 weeks ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

The reunion of Barclay Goodrow and the San Jose Sharks was rocky this offseason. It was mired in controversy as the New York Rangers found a way around Goodrow’s 15-team no-trade list by simply placing him on waivers. And while Goodrow presumably had the Sharks on that no-trade list, he never held the Sharks responsible for how things played out. He was upfront that his anger was directed at New York for how things were handled.
2025 player review Alex Wennberg: Time to rethink his role

3 weeks ago | fearthefin.com | Erika Towne

The San Jose Sharks loosened up the purse strings on July 1, 2024 and started actively looking for veteran players who would help guide the new generation of Sharks into the NHL. The team added Tyler Toffoli to the fold to give rookie Macklin Celebrini a bona fide shooter to play alongside. The Sharks also added Alex Wennberg, a defensively responsible forward able to play the two-way game that the team wanted to employ. Wennberg gave the Sharks exactly what they expected in the 2024-25 season.

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