any info wether Karlis Cukste will be signed? He just graduated ...
Highly doubt it. Maybe he gets a Cuda deal if they feel they need more blueline depth in the minors, but there's nothing in what he's done in college that screams "this guy has serious pro potential"
It looks like he's simply destined to be the last elimination from that 2012-2016 run where the Sharks went gaga using their late-round picks to select underwhelming lunchpail stay-at-home or fake "two-way" defender types (Mark Shoemaker, Cliff Watson, Gage Ausmus, Cukste, and to a lesser extent Adam Parsells and Alexis Vanier)
Of course, the last time I was this confident about the Sharks not signing a pending college graduate prospect, it was when I figured we'd hit the end of the line on former Langley Rivermen F Marcus Vela and he
did get a Cuda contract and played like 8 or 9 games in the org before being shipped off to another club's system. So it shows what I know.