Sharks Promote Assistant Ryan Warsofsky to Head Coach After Disastrous Season

In the wake of a 2024 to ignore, the San Jose Sharks have observed their chief of the upcoming.

The Sharks are naming assistant coach Ryan Warsofsky their subsequent head coach, they introduced Thursday morning. Warsofsky, 36, has invested the previous two seasons as an assistant to previous mentor David Quinn.

“I am overcome with gratitude and pleasure to be named as the head coach of the San Jose Sharks,” Warsofsky mentioned in a crew assertion. “This a huge option to carry on to be portion of a very well-respected group, and my family and I could not be far more excited for this upcoming chapter.”

The moment a perennial winner, San Jose is licking its wounds following a 19-54-9 ’24 season—its worst by stage proportion due to the fact likely 20-55-7 in 1996.

For their struggles, the Sharks won the variety a person choose in the draft on June 28. They are greatly anticipated to take extremely touted Boston College heart Macklin Celebrini.