William Espy

2 weeks ago | sanjosehockeynow.com | William Espy

Askarov is back. For real this time. Asky is back👀 pic.twitter.com/cV6COtnNEL— SJ Barracuda (@sjbarracuda) April 6, 2025After missing a month and a half of action, Yaroslav Askarov started for the San Jose Barracuda on Saturday. It was the first time he’d played since a 6-4 loss to the Ontario Reign on February 19. During his first season as a member of the San Jose Sharks organization, Askarov has been dominant at the American Hockey League level.

3 weeks ago | sanjosehockeynow.com | William Espy

Will Smith and Macklin Celebrini aren’t the first young superstars Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau have helped integrate into the NHL. When Marleau joined the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2017, Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner (who has been linked to the Sharks in recent speculation) were still new to life in the NHL. Then, a season after Marleau returned to the Sharks, the Maple Leafs youngsters got another San Jose Sharks legend, when Thornton joined his hometown team.

4 weeks ago | thehockeywriters.com | William Espy

On Tuesday (March 25), the Columbus Blue Jackets announced the signing of undrafted free agent Jack Williams from Northeastern University. An offensive threat in the very difficult Hockey East conference of the NCAA, Williams is expected to immediately join the Blue Jackets and make his NHL debut sooner rather than later. Over the three seasons in the NCAA, Williams developed offensively very quickly. In his freshman season, he had 17 points in 35 games for the Huskies.

1 month ago | sanjosehockeynow.com | William Espy

Macklin Celebrini is lying. On Saturday night, after Boston College star Will Smith fulfilled a bet by wearing Celebrini’s Boston University jersey to a game, Celebrini deadpanned, “He told me that the BU jersey is better than the BC jersey.”Smith said the record straight on Monday: “That’s a complete lie.”But that’s Celebrini turning the tables on Smith — in late January, to pay off another bet, Macklin Celebrini had to wear Smith’s BC jersey to a game.

1 month ago | thehockeywriters.com | William Espy

When the trade deadline passed, the Columbus Blue Jackets kept two key members of their defensive corps who will be unrestricted free agents at the end of the season. General manager Don Waddell will undoubtedly try to keep both, but if it comes down to the organization only keeping one of Ivan Provorov and Dante Fabbro, it certainly won’t be an easy choice. Fabbro was acquired by the Blue Jackets early in November after the Nashville Predators placed the defenseman on waivers.