Anaheim Ducks’ Josh Mahura (76) reaches for the puck next to San Jose Sharks’ Joonas Donskoi, right, during the second period of a preseason NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in San Jose , Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

On the Sharks Podcast with Len:

1 The Sharks who won their third pre season game last Saturday in Glendale with a 5-4 win over the Arizona Coyotes head to Anaheim on the 28th for a pre season contest with the Ducks. Things are going well so far in pre season and head coach Peter DeBoer will have a problem that every coach would like and that’s trying chose from a crop of very talented forwards and defenseman. Also we’ve been talking about it all summer whose going to step us and take former Shark Patrick Marleau’s place for this season.

That seems to be the burning question coming into the season right there and there are four players the Sharks are looking at that have had one 20 goal season in the last 17 years out of Tomas Hertl, Joonas Donskoi, Mikkel Boedker, and Melker Karlsson in 17 NHL seasons it’s kind of amazing a little bit. These guys are young their still struggling for a position and the way the Sharks work so this isn’t a major surprise.

Len Shapiro does the SJ Sharks podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com