{"id":384154,"date":"2026-07-02T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384154\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:46:08","slug":"sharks-sign-forward-ivar-stenberg-to-an-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384154\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks sign forward Ivar Stenberg to an entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed\u00a0forward\u00a0Ivar Stenberg\u00a0to a standard, entry-level contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stenberg, 18, led SHL U19 skaters in scoring this season with 33 points (11 goals, 22 assists) and in assists and in points per game (0.77). He helped\u00a0Frolunda\u00a0HC capture the 2026 Champions Hockey League Championship, tallying four points (all assists) in six games with his club. He recorded a career-high four-point game at the SHL level on Nov. 22 at\u00a0Leksands\u00a0IF, tallying one goal and three assists. He also logged a career-long 10-game point streak (four goals, 10 assists) at the SHL level from Oct. 30 through Dec. 6, the longest such streak by an 18-year-old or younger in SHL history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of finishing his second season in the SHL with\u00a0Frolunda, he was awarded SHL most\u00a0assists\u00a0by a Junior (22) and SHL most points by a Junior (33). Stenberg also received the prestigious honor of being named Swedish Junior Hockey Player of the Year (Arets\u00a0Junior), awarded annually to the top young ice hockey talent in Sweden by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and Elite Prospects.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Internationally, he helped Team Sweden win the Gold Medal at the 2026 U20 World Juniors Championship, recording four goals and six assists in seven games. Among tournament skaters, he finished tied for fifth in points, tied for seventh in goals, and tied for ninth in assists. Stenberg found the score sheet in six of his seven tournament games, including a three-point effort (one goal, two assists) in the Gold Medal game against Czechia on Jan. 5 and was named U20 World Junior Championship Top 3 Player on Team. He\u00a0represented\u00a0Sweden at the World Championships and finished the tournament ranked second in goals (4), third in points (8), and tied for fourth in assists (4) among his team.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

During his 2024-25 season, he posted career highs across all scoring categories (26 goals, 27 assists) at the J20\u00a0Nationell\u00a0level and finished ranked sixth in the league in goals. Among\u00a0Frolunda\u00a0HC J20 skaters, he led his team in goals, was second in points (53), and fifth in assists. He also skated in three games and tallied eight points (one goal, seven assists) in the J18 Region and one game in the J20\u00a0Nationell, where he tallied six points (one goal, five assists), both with\u00a0Frolunda\u00a0HC J18. He captured the Silver Medal with Sweden at the 2025 U18 World Junior Championship where he posted 13 points (eight goals, five assists) and was named U18 World Junior Championship All-Star Team. He also captured the Hlinka Gretzky Cup Bronze Medal and earned\u00a0Hlinka\u00a0Gretzky Cup Most Goals (4).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 5-foot-11, 190-pound native of\u00a0Stenungsund, Sweden,\u00a0was\u00a0selected by San Jose in the 2026 NHL Draft (first round, second overall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed\u00a0forward\u00a0Ivar Stenberg\u00a0to a standard, entry-level contract.\u00a0 Stenberg,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-384154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384154","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=384154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}