Sharks Re-Sign Mitchell

On Monday, CapGeek.com listed that the Sharks re-signed one of their key restricted free agents in Torrey Mitchell. Mitchell signed a new 3-year deal, which is reportedly worth $4.1 million in total, a $1.37 million cap hit per season.

In 2009, Mitchell was not able to play in any regular season games, as he was still recovering from a badly broken leg, which he suffered in the pre-season. Mitchell was able to get back into shape with the team for 4 games in the playoffs against the Ducks, where he was unable to register any points. In the 2008 season, Mitchell had 10 goals and 10 assists iin all 82 games for the Sharks.

Also on Monday night, it was confirmed that Brad Staubitz was re-signed by the Sharks to a 1-year deal. Staubitz played in 35 games for San Jose, picking up a goal and 2 assists. Not really pool worthy, but since I'm updating the Sharks, it's good to know.

The Sharks cap troubles do seem to be continuing into the new week/month, despite their salary dump trade on Friday. With the addition of Torrey Mitchell and also adding Thomas Greiss as the back-up to Evgeni Nabokov, the Sharks now have 17 players on their line-up sheet for next season at a cap hit of $53.5 million. It is no wonder that the Sharks remain in the rumour mill, as they have some salary still to move before they can insert players into that line-up for the beginning of October.

Forwards	Defense	Goaltenders
Joe Thornton	Dan Boyle	Evgeni Nabokov
Patrick Marleau	Rob Blake	Thomas Greiss
Devin Setoguchi	Marc-Eduoard Vlasic
Joe Pavelski	Doug Murray
Milan Michalek	Kent Huskins
Ryane Clowe
Jonathan Cheechoo
Scott Nichol
Jody Shelley
Torrey Mitchell

It's still really hard to gauge where the Sharks are going to go this season, especially with the rumour mill turning at the frantic pace that it has been lately. With players rumoured to be on the way out and the way in, it won't be until the middle of training camp before we can actually sit down and decide how the team should fare in 2010. If the team was to go in with the partial roster we have now and a few of their young players to fill in some gaps, you could argue that their current scoring depth should outweigh some of the defensive lapses they'll likely have with a young blueliner not fit for the job. It's hard to say though, but it will be interesting to see how September will play out for San Jose.