San Jose went 2-0 in the rookie tournament, and then Grier read the injury list
The first Sharks prospect board of the season, thirty names deep and built on Calder eligibility alone. Quentin Musty and Cameron Lund came out of the rookie weekend hurt. Ethan Cardwell comes off the June list for good, and the board's biggest gap is that nobody can say where half of these players are playing.
Quentin Musty is fifth on this week's board and Cameron Lund is tenth, and neither of them is available when the season opens.
Mike Grier put both away on Thursday morning, hours after camp opened: Musty out "for a couple months at least," Lund out at least a month and through the start of the regular season, both upper body. Neither one drops a rank, because a board ranks a player and not a month. What changes is everything behind them. Musty scored 45 points in 61 games for the Barracuda last season. Those minutes belong to somebody else now, and the candidates spent the weekend on the ice in San Jose.
The loud item was Ivar Stenberg scoring twice in 25 seconds against Los Angeles, per Max Miller of Sharks Hockey Digest, because no box score was published for either game. It is worth close to nothing. Two exhibition games is not a sample on anybody, and least of all on an eighteen-year-old with three years of an entry-level contract ahead of him.
The third item is an admission. For 13 of these 30 players, no primary source establishes which club they play for this season. Simon Wang, ranked thirteenth, is on no 2026-27 roster in the Ontario Hockey League, and all twenty were read today. Closing that is the board's real work before October.
The full top 30 is here, covering Friday September 11 through Thursday September 17. Every player's Calder eligibility was checked one at a time against the league's own records, which is how Ethan Cardwell comes off the June list and stays off. Ten of the thirty carry a photograph, because those are the ten the league has one of.
