San Jose Sharks Defensive Depth Chart for 2013 NHL Season

In June 2011, the San Jose Sharks traded away a scoring-line forward and a top prospect for a first-pair defenceman. Not only was this meant to upgrade the blue line, but the thought was that a team's seventh-best forward would be easier to replace.

Trouble is, neither of those things happened.

Young forwards the Sharks were hoping would develop, veteran free agents they signed and even those they traded for to fill the void failed. It was much the same on the blue line, where the play of the top three was offset by declining play of two existing defencemen and failure on behalf of veteran fr...

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