{"id":496435,"date":"2026-10-15T01:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:42:15","slug":"is-goalie-yaroslav-askarov-living-up-to-sharks-expectations-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496435\/","title":{"rendered":"Is goalie Yaroslav Askarov living up to Sharks\u2019 expectations? \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>Goaltending is a touchy issue for many NHL coaches to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>They defer their netminding decisions, often, to their goaltending coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, in most cases, Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky gives non-answers about his goaltending, unless he\u2019s speaking positively about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he made some saves,\u201d Warsofsky said, carefully, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/askarya01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yaroslav Askarov\u2019s<\/a> performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/ivar-stenberg-scores-first-nhl-in-loss\/1971185\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 6-3 loss<\/a> to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night at SAP Center. \u201cThere\u2019s not much that he can do on some of those.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky\u2019s expertise is forwards and defensemen and special teams and systems. What happens after all that, when the puck gets to his goalie? That\u2019s on Askarov or Alex Nedeljkovic, or above them, director of goaltending Evgeni Nabokov or goaltending coach Thomas Speer.<\/p>\n<p>The media, however, rarely receives access to Nabokov or Speer. We\u2019ve asked.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, organizations want the general manager or head coach or scouting directors to be the public voices of their specific aspects of organizations. But, you rarely see a goaltending coach speaking on behalf of the organization. Maybe we should see that more, because of how siloed the goaltending position is.<\/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":496436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1036,88,90,89,3516],"class_list":["post-496435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-yaroslav-askarov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496435","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=496435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}