Brodie Brazil caught up with Sharks forward Jasper Weatherby to see how he feels the Sharks can get back to the playoff race in a new era.
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Timo Meier’s camp isn’t expecting a contract offer from the Sharks during the season.
“We have not received any offers yet, and don’t expect anything until the end of the season,” Claude Lemieux, Meier’s agent, told San Jose Hockey Now.
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“We didn’t put any parameters on [negotiating in-season]. It’s for me to get to know Timo personally, as a person, and to see how he fits in, and for Quinny to get to know him as a player,” Sharks general manager Mike Grier shared on Sept. 14 about nascent contract negotiations with Lemieux about pending RFA Meier. “We’ll see how it goes and we’ll kind of go from there and we’ll see how it plays out.”
It looks like the San Jose Sharks and Meier are both playing it out. That’s not a bad thing: The Sharks can see if Meier can replicate his breakout 2021-22 All-Star campaign, and the 25-year-old winger can see how the Sharks, three years and running out of the playoffs, are progressing as a franchise.