Now that we're at the Olympic Break, it's a good time to take a look at the Sharks' season so far and grade each individual player's performance to this point. Since there are many players to grade, I will split my grades across 3 articles: Forwards, Defensemen, and Goaltenders, along with my grade for the Sharks and their season.
For this exercise, I will only be grading players currently on the Sharks 23 man roster or on IR. So players like Igor Chernyshov or Nick Leddy won’t be graded in this exercise. Yesterday I covered the forwards, today I will be grading the defenseman.