THN Top 50 prospects NsHL style

Picked up the Hockey News Future watch issue today and figured I'd translate the top 50 prospect rankings if it were the NsHL version.  I marked in brackets if said prospects is playing in the NsHL or AsHL.  Enjoy,  guys!!

#1 Vladimir Tarasenko - Buffalo
#2 Justin Schultz - Detroit
#3 Evengy Kuznetsov - NYR
#4 Dougie Hamilton - Edmonton
#5 Nail Yakupov - Tampa Bay
#6 Alex Galchenyuk - Edmonton
#7 Mikeal Granlund - San Jose
#8 Jonathan Huberdeau - Columbus
#9 Ryan Muray - Phoenix
#10 Jacob Trouba - Columbus
#11 John Gibson - LA
#12 Hampus Lindholm - Colorado
#13 Ryan Strome - Toronto
#14 Mark Scheifele - Chicago
#15 Sven Baertschi - Colorado
#16 - Mikhail Grigorenko - Carolina
#17 Mika Zibanejad - Phoenix
#18 Jakob Silfverberg - Minnesota
#19 Morgan Rielly - Columbus
#20 Chris Kreider - Philly
#21 Filip Forsberg - San Jose
#22 Jonas Brodin - Toronto
#23 Griffin Reinhart - NYI
#24 Robin Lehner - Carolina (AsHL)
#25 Andrey Vasilevskiy - Toronto
#26 Brendan Smith - Tampa Bay (AsHL)
#27 Charlie Coyle - Florida
#28 Boone Jenner - Chicago
#29 Jaden Schwartz - Chicago
#30 Jacob Markstrom - San Jose
#31 Calle Jarnkrok - Ottawa
#32 Brandon Gormley - NYI
#33 Brandon Saad - St. Louis
#34 Teuvo Teravainen - Anaheim
#35 Scott Laughton - Toronto
#36 Nick Bjugstad - Edmonton
#37 Oscar Klefbom - Anaheim
#38 J.T. Miller - NYR (AsHL)
#39 Tomas Hertl - Phoenix
#40 Olli Maatta - Carolina
#41 Nathan Beaulieu - Minnesota
#42 Derrick Pouliot - Boston
#43 Joel Armia - Vancouver
#44 Marcus Foligno - Ottawa
#45 Malcolm Subban - Winnipeg
#46 Brett Ritchie - NYI
#47 Mathew Dumba - Carolina
#48 Rickard Rakell - Carolina
#49 Zemgus Girgensons - Toronto
#50 John Gaudreau - NYI

10 games in.

Mar 14/13 - The San Jose Sharks started out good two games in, but now at 10 games in, haven't fared very well so far.  The Sharks have a 4-6-0 record for 8 pts.  Sharks forwards Patrick Marleau and Kyle Okposo have been the only hot ones so far this season with Marleau (4G, 6A) and Okposo (6G, 4A) both getting 10 pts so far this season.  The team's best defensive d-man, Richard Petiot, is sitting at -9.  The team's starting netminder has been having trouble finding his groove so far as he sits with a 3.86 GAA and a .876 save percentage.  It was heard that Lehtonen will get the next game off to give him a rest or maybe something to spark some better player out of the starting netminder.  Nikolai Khabibulin and Pascal Leclaire will be the goaltending tandem going into tonight's game.  "Kari's had some trouble." Said Sharks GM Kurt Fulmore.  "It's only 10 games in, not time to hit the panic button yet.  But this also provides Nikolai and Pascal an opportunity to show who deserves the backup spot behind Kari and who deserves to get moved or send to Halifax.  So it'll give Kari a night off a chance to see these 2 compete."

The Sharks pulled the trigger on a deal yesterday just before last night's game in an effort to help boost some offence.  The Sharks dealt Pittsburgh's 2nd and Toronto's 6th in 2013 to Carolina for Alex Picard and Toronto's 3rd in 2013.  Picard was picked up in hopes of sparking some 3rd line offence along with Jaromir Jagr.  Maybe it'll will spark some offense to the second line as well as they've been slow to get going after the first 2 games of the season.

Sharks first win, Nugent-Hopkins first goal

Mar 2/13 - The San Jose Sharks didn't waste any time picking up their first win of the season by defeating the defending Cup champs, the St. Louis Blues, to a score of 5-4.  Sharks rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also didn't waste time scoring his first NsHL goal.  "It was awesome!!!"  Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said in his first post game interview.  "Every kid dreams of scoring that first NsHL goal and it's just a bonus when you do it in your first game.  I'm glad to get that monkey off my back and now I hope I keep it going."

Ryan Nugent Hopkins celebrating his first NsHL goal.

Kyle Okposo started the season off on a good foot as well scoring twice in the victory over the Blues.  "Not only did I get one to get the season going, I got two." Said Sharks forward Kyle Okposo.  "We were all anxious and excited to see how tonight would go.  With the new additions to the team in the form of Nuge and Bogosian being signed to the team in the offseason and Jagr coming in via free agency, there was a bit of a new look to the team and we were all curious as to what we could do out there.  Tonight we did pretty good for the most part.

The first win of the season looks like it has come with a cost already.  Sharks D-man Dustin Byfuglien is out for 6 days with a hand injury and left winger Guillaume Latendresse is out for one day with a leg injury.  Brian Rolston and Justin Braun have been called up from Halifax to fill in for the injured players.

AsHL Halifax Citadels - On the farm side of things, the Halifax Citadels lost 2-1 in overtime to the Manitoba Moose.  Brian Rolston scored the lone goal for Hailfax while Kevin Poulin played great in his AsHL debut stopping 29 of 31 shots.

Sharks swing one more deal, face Blues to start season

Mar 1/13 - The San Jose Sharks made one more deal before the season as set to start on Saturday.  The Sharks sent their 5th round selection in the 2014 draft to Nashville for high flying, crash and banging Jordin Tootoo.

The Sharks start the season off taking on the best in the league.  They play their first game versus the defending NsHL champs, the St. Louis Blues.  The game will hopefully not be a cakewalk for the Blues as the Sharks have improved since last season with some new additions to their lineup.  Young playmaker Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and dman Zach Bogosian were signed off the Sharks prospect list this offseason and are looking to make good things happen for the Sharks.

Here are the Sharks season opening lineup:

Marleau - Latendresse - Okposo
RNH - Skinner - Eberle
Guite - Thorburn - Jagr
Pouliot - Tootoo - Alfredsson

Petiot - Byfuglien
Bogosian - Timonen
Orpik - Sauer

Lehtonen - Leclaire