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Most sites quietly delete the takes that age badly. This one keeps a ledger: the claim, the date, and a grade once reality settles it, held up or missed.
A blue-line overhaul was mandatory. Paying the top of the market on double the term was not. Comparable defensemen went for $4M that week and the best one available went for two years, while San Jose committed four.
The Sharks' pipeline gets called the league's best by a wide margin. The claim survives an audit, but it rests on three players and one uncomfortable truth about how prospect pools get built.
The Sharks qualified Collin Graf and then spent the summer signing forwards. A month later he is the last RFA standing, and the delay says more about the depth chart than about the money.