{"id":384641,"date":"2026-07-03T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:51:10","slug":"san-jose-sharks-sign-ivar-stenberg-to-three-year-entry-level-contract-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384641\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks sign Ivar Stenberg to three-year entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2014 Winger Ivar Stenberg got some important paperwork done before he returned to his native Sweden, signing a three-year entry-level contract<\/a> with the San Jose Sharks on Thursday to complete a whirlwind week in North America.<\/p>\n

Coming off a season in which he led all teenagers<\/a> in the Swedish Hockey League with 11 goals and 33 points \u2014 the fifth-most ever by a player 18 or younger \u2014 in 43 games, the 18-year-old Stenberg was selected second overall by the Sharks at the NHL draft last Friday in Buffalo, N.Y.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019ll spend the next couple of months preparing for his first NHL training camp this fall, when he returns to San Jose to compete for an NHL job.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper thankful, super excited. It\u2019s a dream,\u201d Stenberg said Thursday. \u201cSo, super happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stenberg, at just over 5-feet-11 and approximately 190 pounds, possesses tremendous passing and playmaking ability,<\/a> along with elite hockey sense. In Thursday\u2019s prospects scrimmage at Tech CU Arena to end the team\u2019s development camp, Stenberg scored a slick goal, casually sliding a puck past goalie Christian Kirsch while wide open in the slot.<\/p>\n

Todd Marchant, the Sharks\u2019 director of player development, said there is \u201cno doubt\u201d that Stenberg is ready for the NHL.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a curve that each player has to go through,\u201d Marchant said Thursday. \u201cEven going back to Macklin (Celebrini), first part of the year, when he first started, the NHL was a little bit of a learning curve for him, but then he figured it out, and obviously he\u2019s the player that he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Misa went through it last year, and he came back from the World Juniors, and it was like we took the training wheels off, and all of a sudden he took flight. So I think that every player is going to be a little bit different, but I have no issues that Ivar will eventually figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grier said Thursday morning he wanted to get a deal done with Stenberg: \u201cHopefully we can maybe get something done here before he heads home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assuming he makes the team out of camp, Stenberg will be one of six players on the Sharks roster playing on an entry-level contract, joining forwards Misa, Celebrini, Will Smith, Igor Chernyshov and defenseman Sam Dickinson. Celebrini has been the Sharks\u2019 leading scorer the last two years, and could have Stenberg on his wing sometime during camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of the best in the world,\u201d Stenberg said of Celebrini. \u201cLooking forward to seeing him play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Winger Ivar Stenberg got some important paperwork done before he returned to his native Sweden,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":["post-384641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384641","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=384641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}