What should the San Jose Sharks expect from Ivar Stenberg in his rookie season?<\/p>\n
Two NHL scouts, who watched the 2026 No. 2 pick closely last season in the SHL, World Juniors, and World Championships shared their predictions.<\/p>\n
Also, what will it take for the 18-year-old Swedish winger to win the Calder Trophy?<\/p>\n
Scout No. 1 is bullish about Stenberg and his role in his rookie campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be happy with 50-55 points,\u201d he said. \u201cFor sure, a top-six [for the San Jose Sharks].\u201d<\/p>\n
Scout No. 2, however, thinks the teen will have more of a learning curve.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gets 30-40 points. Top-nine and PP2, at times,\u201d he said. \u201cBarracuda, at times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stenberg is eligible to shuttle between the NHL and AHL this year.<\/p>\n
In their rookie seasons, 2025 No. 2 pick Michael Misa saw some AHL time on a conditioning assignment and 2023 No. 4 pick Will Smith, arguably, could\u2019ve used some time down there. 2024 No. 1 pick Macklin Celebrini, of course, was a different animal.<\/p>\n
In addition, unlike Celebrini, Smith, and Misa\u2019s rookie campaigns, these San Jose Sharks are expecting to make the playoffs, so Stenberg should have a higher bar to stay in the line-up.<\/p>\n
What will keep Stenberg in the NHL all year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What should the San Jose Sharks expect from Ivar Stenberg in his rookie season? Two NHL scouts, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62931,3853,94917,31922,75543,25743,1035,3259,90828,88,97,90,89,98,8627,8864,3578],"class_list":["post-433650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-draft","tag-ahl","tag-calder-trophy","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-lucas-raymond","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-michael-misa","tag-ryan-nugent-hopkins","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-barracuda","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-san-jose-sharks-prospects","tag-scouts","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433650","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=433650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}