SAN JOSE – These ready for goalie Georgi Romanov to make his first profession begin for the San Jose Sharks won’t have to attend for much longer.
Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky stated Saturday that he would possibly give Romanov a begin someday throughout this homestand, which continues for 2 extra weeks. After Saturday, the Sharks’ subsequent house video games come later subsequent week as they host the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday and the Boston Bruins on March 22.
The homestand wraps up the next week with video games in opposition to the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 27 and the New York Rangers on March 29.
Romanov, a pending restricted free agent, made two aid appearances for the Sharks on the finish of final season, stopping 29 of 30 photographs in video games in opposition to the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames.
“I think so. We’ll see,” Warsofsky stated about beginning Romanov. “We’ll get through today. We have four days until our next game.”
Romanov, 25, joined the Sharks roster on March 5 after fellow goalie Vitek Vanecek on March 5 to the Florida Panthers. He’s had a gradual weight loss plan of practices with the Sharks ever since, however had not gotten right into a sport as veteran Alexandar Georgiev has performed each minute for the reason that deal.
Saturday’s sport in opposition to Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals marked Georgiev’s seventh consecutive begin relationship again to March 3. Within the earlier six video games, Georgiev is 3-3-0 with a .870 save proportion.
LINEUP CHANGES: Eight days after he was acquired from the Ottawa Senators, Zack Ostapchuk is making his Sharks debut Saturday and can begin on the fourth line with Klim Kostin and Barclay Goodrow.
With Ostapchuk entering into, Nikolai Kovalenko will come out of the lineup and Carl Grundstrom can be a wholesome scratch for the second straight sport,
At 6-foot-4 and 212 kilos, Ostapchuk stated Friday that he wished to come back out and lay the physique early in Saturday’s sport. That’s advantageous with Warsofsky, who desires the 21-year-old to play to his identification.
“I think he knows what that is, and we’ll work through the mistakes,” Warsofsky stated. “It’s a game of mistakes. I’m sure he’ll make some structure-wise, with some new structure that he’s learning. But I want him to go out there and compete and play to his ability of what his identity is, and we’ll correct mistakes as we go.”
Kovalenko returned to the Sharks’ lineup on March 6 after lacking 9 video games with an damage. Within the 4 video games since, Kovalenko has had one aim, one shot, three hits, and one blocked shot, with 5 giveaways, whereas averaging just below 11 minutes of ice time per sport.
Kovalenko must regain the puck-hunting and forechecking model he had when the Sharks first acquired him in December.
“When you don’t have your ‘A’ game,” Warsofsky stated, “what does your ‘B’ and ‘C’ game look like? How are you impacting the game in different ways? Are you being disruptive on the forecheck? Are you being physical, good defensively, blocking shots? You can’t just have one game. You have to have a couple different areas of your game that you can impact and help our hockey team.
“That’s not just (Kovalenko). That’s a lot of young players that come into this league.”
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