Dylan Gambrell is the only player in Sharks prospect camp this week with any NHL experience. He skated in the final three games of the 2017-18 season for the Sharks after signing a three-year, entry-level contract on March 26.



He’s also, strangely enough, played for two current NHL head coaches.



Those three games a few months ago came for Pete DeBoer, of course, but recent Stars hire Jim Montgomery is probably more familiar with Gambrell at this point than the Sharks’ coach.



Montgomery not only had Gambrell at the University of Denver for the past three years, but coached him in his first season at USHL Dubuque in 2012-13, too, when Gambrell was just 16 years old. When Montgomery was named as the head coach of the Stars on May 4, replacing Ken Hitchcock, Gambrell sent him a congratulatory text message.



“I’ve known him for probably six years now,” Gambrell said of Montgomery, who spent parts of six seasons in the NHL as a...