{"id":207665,"date":"2026-03-06T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207665\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:06:10","slug":"sharks-sign-goaltender-alex-nedeljkovic-to-a-two-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207665\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks sign goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic to a two-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Sharks (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharks\" rel=\"nofollow\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed\u00a0goaltender\u00a0Alex Nedeljkovic\u00a0to a two-year contract extension\u00a0worth six million dollars (three million AAV).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nedeljkovic,\u00a030, has appeared in 26 games with San Jose, recording an 11-9-2 record with a 2.83 goals-against average\u00a0(GAA)\u00a0and a .902 save percentage\u00a0(SV%).\u00a0Over his\u00a0previous\u00a0eight appearances, Nedeljkovic is 6-1-0 and has posted a minimum of\u00a0a .913\u00a0SV%. He\u00a0recorded a career-best five straight wins from\u00a0Jan. 6-23, and\u00a0appeared in his 200th\u00a0NHL game on Jan. 15 at Washington.\u00a0He recorded his first official career fight\u00a0in the game against the Florida Panthers on Jan. 19, where he also posted\u00a0a .972 SV%, his best of the season, stopping 35 of 36 shots in the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 205 career\u00a0NHL games with Carolina, Detroit,\u00a0Pittsburgh,\u00a0and San Jose,\u00a0Nedeljkovic has posted an\u00a085-69-29\u00a0record, a\u00a02.97\u00a0GAA\u00a0and a .903\u00a0SV%\u00a0with nine career shutouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his first full NHL season\u00a0of 2020-21, Nedeljkovic\u00a0led the NHL with a 1.90 goals-against average and a .932 save percentage. He was named to the NHL\u2019s All-Rookie Team and finished third in Calder Memorial Trophy voting as the NHL\u2019s top\u00a0rookie. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That same season, he posted\u00a0a 2.17 goals-against average and a.920 save percentage in nine Stanley Cup Playoff games with the Hurricanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nedeljkovic also has a flare for offense.\u00a0On January 17, 2025, Nedeljkovic scored his first career NHL\u00a0goal, becoming the 16th NHL goaltender to do so. He also became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal and record an assist in the same game, as well as the only goaltender to score a goal in the NHL, AHL and ECHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nedeljkovic has played extensively in the AHL\u00a0as well, accumulating 182 games with\u00a0Charlotte, Grand Rapids and Wilkes-Barre.\u00a0His AHL career includes\u00a0winning the\u00a0Aldege\u00a0&#8220;Baz&#8221; Bastien Memorial Award presented annually to the American Hockey League&#8217;s best goaltender and being named a First Team All-Star in 2018-2019,\u00a0winning the Calder Cup Championship\u00a0alongside then-Checkers assistant coach Ryan Warsofsky\u00a0in 2019 and\u00a0was\u00a0named to the AHL\u00a0First\u00a0All-Star Team in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0has\u00a0represented the United States at the\u00a02024 World Championships,\u00a0the 2016 World Junior Championships (bronze) and the 2014 U-18 Championships (gold).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot,\u00a0203-pound native of\u00a0Parma, Ohio\u00a0was\u00a0originally\u00a0selected by\u00a0Carolina\u00a0in the\u00a0second\u00a0round (37th\u00a0overall)\u00a0in the 2014\u00a0NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed\u00a0goaltender\u00a0Alex Nedeljkovic\u00a0to a two-year contract extension\u00a0worth six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-207665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}