{"id":468083,"date":"2026-09-18T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468083\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:42:10","slug":"ryan-warsofsky-grateful-humbled-by-sharks-contract-extension-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468083\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Warsofsky grateful, humbled by Sharks contract extension \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Grier is happy with Ryan Warsofsky\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Grier put his money where his mouth is, extending the San Jose Sharks head coach, entering the last year of his contract, to an extension.<\/p>\n<p>Terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to Hasso [Plattner] and Jonathan [Becher] and Mike for giving me the responsibility. They gave me my first crack in the National Hockey League,\u201d Warsofsky said \u201cSuper excited, grateful, humbled by what they\u2019ve done. It\u2019s a great place to live. It\u2019s a great organization. They treat people and families first-class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan\u2019s done a good job. His staff\u2019s done a good job,\u201d Grier said on Thursday, the first day of training camp. \u201cHe\u2019s someone who works hard. He\u2019s put in the time. He has good relationships with the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky was promoted to San Jose Sharks head coach on Jun. 13, 2024, after serving two seasons as an assistant coach. And in his second year as bench boss, Warsofsky spearheaded a 34-point improvement in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not just 2024 No. 1 pick Macklin Celebrini\u2019s ascension to superstardom last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4401,1036,88,90,89,4054],"class_list":["post-468083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-mike-grier","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sharks-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468083","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=468083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}