Biggest challenge<\/p>\n
More production from those not named Macklin Celebrini<\/a>, whose 115 points (45 goals, 70 assists) were more than the Sharks’ next two top scorers combined, forwards Will Smith<\/a> (59 points) and Alexander Wennberg<\/a>\u00a0(55). Celebrini’s 45 goals also dwarfed those of the next two behind him, Smith (24) and Collin Graf<\/a> (21). San Jose was 25th in save percentage (.881), 30th in goals-against average (3.49) and one of four teams without a shutout (Philadelphia Flyers, Anaheim Ducks, Winnipeg Jets), so it needs more from 24-year-old starter Yaroslav Askarov<\/a> (21-20-4, 3.63 goals-against average, .884 save percentage) and 30-year-old Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a>\u00a0(18-14-4, 2.87 GAA, .896 save percentage). Eric Comrie<\/a>\u00a0signed a two-year contract on July 1 and the 31-year-old likely will compete for the backup job. He was 12-11-1 with a 3.13 GAA and .890 save percentage in 25 games for the Winnipeg Jets last season. The Sharks also signed Ilya Samsonov<\/a>, who played 14 games for\u00a0HK Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey League last season, to a one-year, two-way contract on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biggest challenge More production from those not named Macklin Celebrini, whose 115 points (45 goals, 70 assists) were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-471875","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\/471875","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=471875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}