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Cal Petersen Jack Campbell From 2010-11 through 2016-17 the San Jose Sharks (1) and Anaheim Sharks Ducks (5) won six of the seven Pacific Division titles. Over that stretch Forwards the Los Angeles Kings won two Stanley Cups. The Sharks made the Stanley Cup final in 2016 and the Ducks made it to Game 7 of the LEFT WING CENTER RIGHT WING Western Conference final in 2015. Evander Kane Tomas Hertl Kevin Labanc “Absolutely it was tough,” an NHL coach said, “because you had three Timo Meier Logan Couture Sasha Chmelevski elite teams and usually three games in four nights, which made it hard in itself – but L.A.-Anaheim on back-to-back, both being heavy grinding Ivan Chekhovich Dylan Gambrell Joachim Blichfeld teams you had to beat … then you had San Jose, a deep, high-pressure skilled team that was very strong. Plus the Shark Tank was always a Lean Bergmann Noah Gregor Alex True tough trip. Three to four points (out of six) was considered a goal.” Defensemen Now, going through California isn’t exactly rough n’ tumble. Though the LEFT DEFENSE RIGHT DEFENSE Sharks made the Western Conference final this past season, the Kings finished 30th overall and Anaheim was 24th. Mario Ferraro Erik Karlsson The latter two teams are rebuilding and don’t appear to be close to re- Radim Simek Brent Burns entering their windows of opportunity any time soon. The Sharks lost Joe Pavelski this summer, but hope a healthy Erik Karlsson and some big- Marc-Edouard Vlasic Ryan Merkley time steps by their younger players last season can keep them Goalies competitive for a while. STARTING GOALTENDER BACKUP GOALTENDER Recently, The Athletic’s Cali beat reporters – Lisa Dillman (Kings), Kevin Kurz (Sharks) and Eric Stephens (Ducks) – tried to guess what the Martin Jones Josef Korenar teams they cover will look like in three years. We decided to take it a step further and discuss which team might rule the state in three seasons, and Now for the debate! roped in The Athletic Los Angeles editor Josh Cooper to chime in. Kurz: One of the age-old debates in sports goes something like this — as First, a refresher on our projected 2022-23 rosters … a hardcore fan, would you rather root for a team that’s consistently competitive but has never won a championship, or is it better to endure a Ducks few seasons of misery that eventually lead to winning it all? Forwards The Sharks, of course, are the only NHL team from California that has yet to win a Stanley Cup. Despite making the playoffs in 14 of the past 15 LEFT WING CENTER RIGHT WING seasons, they’ve had to watch Anaheim raise the Cup in 2007, the Kings Rickard Rakell Trevor Zegras Ondrej Kase in 2012, and the Kings again 2014 after they erased a 3-0 series deficit in the first round to eliminate the Sharks in stunning fashion in what is Max Comtois Sam Steel Troy Terry probably the lowest moment in franchise history. Max Jones Getzlaf/Henrique Jakob Silfverberg But as the Ducks and Kings have regressed lately, the Sharks haven’t, advancing to their second Western Conference final in the past four FA/Ritchie/Shore Isac Lundestrom FA/Sherwood/Sprong seasons in 2019 while Anaheim and Los Angeles both missed the Defensemen playoffs by a wide margin. A similar situation could be in the cards for 2019-20, as the Sharks are still in prime shape to challenge for a Pacific LEFT DEFENSE RIGHT DEFENSE Division title while the Ducks and Kings don’t look like playoff teams at all. Hampus Lindholm Josh Manson But what about three years from now? Will the Sharks still be dangerous Brendan Guhle Cam Fowler when the 2022-23 season rolls around? How will they measure up to Jacob Larsson FA/Hunter Drew their rebuilding neighbors to the south? Goalies In a recent exercise undertaken by many of our NHL writers here at The Athletic, we all did our best to predict what our teams’ respective rosters STARTING GOALTENDER BACKUP GOALTENDER might look like in the future.