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Sharks Promote Assistant Ryan Warsofsky to Head Coach After Disastrous Season

In the wake of a 2024 to forget, the San Jose Sharks have found their leader of the future.

The Sharks are naming assistant coach Ryan Warsofsky their next head coach, they announced Thursday morning. Warsofsky, 36, has spent the last two seasons as an assistant to former coach David Quinn.

"I'm overwhelmed with gratitude and excitement to be named as the head coach of the San Jose Sharks," Warsofsky said in a team statement. "This a tremendous opportunity to continue to be part of a well-respected organization, and my family and I couldn't be more excited for this next chapter."

Once a perennial winner, San Jose is licking its wounds after a 19-54-9 '24 season—its worst by point percentage since going 20-55-7 in 1996.

For their struggles, the Sharks won the number one pick in the draft on June 28. They are widely expected to take highly touted Boston University center Macklin Celebrini.

7 May 24 Jimm Sallivan

Sharks Win 2024 NHL Draft Lottery With Chance to Select Macklin Celebrini

The 2024 NHL draft lottery was held Tuesday night, though it came without many surprises. In fact, this year's draft is the first since 2010 in which the picks went unchanged through the lottery process, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet.

As such, it'll be the San Jose Sharks on the clock first. After a rough season that saw the Sharks finish at the bottom of the league with a record of 19–54–5, they'll have the chance to pick atop this year's draft, where it's widely anticipated that they'll select Boston University standout Macklin Celebrini.

Celebrini, 17, won't turn 18 until just a couple of weeks before the draft in June. This past year at BU, he became the youngest player ever to win the Hoby Baker Award, which recognizes college hockey's top talent. He racked up 64 points—32 goals and 32 assists—across 38 games, and now could be headed to San Jose as the franchise looks to add a game-changing talent to help facilitate the rebuild.

For the first time since 2010, no teams moved up in the NHL Draft Lottery. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/s9AphLHLGO
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) May 7, 2024

Rounding out the top five after the Sharks in the 2024 draft will be the Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Montreal Canadiens. The upstart Utah franchise is poised to pick sixth.