A pair of former Saginaw Spirit stars are making a name for themselves, finding the way to San Jose.<\/p>\n
Igor Chernyshov was named the American Hockey League Player of the Month for November after leading the San Jose Barracuda to a 10-1-1 record. <\/p>\n
Chernyshov, who scored 55 points in 23 games for the Spirit last season, had 10 goals and six assists in 13 games for the Barracudas, finishing the month with a +8 plus\/minus.<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks took Chernyshov in the second round of the 2024 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n
Chernyshov was joined by former Spirit star Michael Misa, who was sent to the Barracuda on a conditioning loan from the NHL. Misa played in seven games for the Sharks, scoring a goal with two assists before suffering a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
He scored 62 goals with 72 assists for the Spirit during the 2024-25 season. The Sharks drafted Misa with the second overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Upcoming Games<\/p>\n
Saginaw tries to end a three-game losing streak at 7 p.m. Friday at London (16-10-3-0) before returning to the Dow Event Center at 7:05 p.m. Saturday to face a Kitchener team that leads the Midwest Division with an 18-9-2-0 record. The Spirit are 9-14-3-3.<\/p>\n
Spirit Leaders<\/p>\n
Goals: Nikita Klepov 16, Dimian Zhilkin 15, Egor Barabanov 13<\/p>\n
Assists: Egor Barabanov 22, Nikita Klepov 20, Levi Harper 19<\/p>\n
Points: Nikita Klepov 36, Egor Barabanov 35, Dimian Zhilkin 28<\/p>\n
Plus-Minus: Dimian Zhilkin +1, Graydon Jones +1, Josh Glavin +1<\/p>\n
Penalty Minutes : Dimian Zhilkin 45, Hayden Barch 32, Josh Glavin 31, Nic Sima 31<\/p>\n
Goaltenders<\/p>\n
Stepan Shurygin 8-11-2-3, 3.70 goals against average, .890 save percentage<\/p>\n
Kaleb Papineau 1-3-1-0, 4.87 goals against average, .840 save percentage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of former Saginaw Spirit stars are making a name for themselves, finding the way to San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,21852,88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-86074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-ohl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86074","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=86074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}