Status Signed ELC July 3, 2026 (3yr / $1.075M AAV); drafted No. 2 overall June 26; expected to make the NHL roster per Professor Hockey's dev-camp read
The card
All cards →Pine Net Rating v0.1: no NHL sample in the 2025-26 file, so no rating yet.
- Position
- L
- Number
- #41
- Shoots
- L
- Age
- 18
- Size
- 5'11", 183 lb
- Pool rank
- No. 1
- Wheeler top 100
- ~2
- Projected
- NHL, top six
- Pieces here
- 30
No NHL games in the 2025-26 regular season, so there is nothing to rank yet.
Sources: NHL.com for the roster, bio and counting line; MoneyPuck for expected goals, on-ice chances, blocks and penalties; PuckPedia and CapWages for the contract. Updated 2026-09-13. The rating, the forecast and the value line are this site's own, from public data, with the method published.
On the record
Called Shots →Ivar Stenberg is an NHL player in 2026-27, full stop, with rookie output around 50-plus points.
Take Stenberg over Chase Reid at No. 2 overall.
At least one San Jose player who has never appeared in an NHL regular-season game dresses for all four of the Sharks' 2026-27 preseason games.
Kiefer Sherwood averages under 1:45 a night on the power play across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27.
Collin Graf is not among San Jose's top eight forwards in total power-play time on ice across the club's first 20 regular-season games of 2026-27.
Ivar Stenberg appears in 11 or more of San Jose's first 13 regular-season games in 2026-27.
Will Smith finishes the 2026-27 NHL regular season with an on-ice goal share at five-on-five below 52 percent for San Jose.
Written about him
Ivar Stenberg And His Brother Scored One Goal And Two Assists Each In Their First Season Against Swedish Men
Otto Stenberg played 23 Swedish Hockey League games for Frolunda at 17 and scored one goal and two assists. Ivar Stenberg played 25 for the same club at the same age and scored one goal and two assists. In their second seasons Otto had six points in 31 games and Ivar had 33 in 43. Otto, a first-round pick in 2023, spent 2025-26 split between St. Louis and Springfield. San Jose has cut its preseason from six games to four and has 19 days between the Rookie Faceoff and the October 1 opener to decide where Ivar starts.
Ivar Stenberg, the deep dive: the models love him as much as the scouts, and he is chasing the Sedins
What the scouting reports leave out about Ivar Stenberg
The forecast, redone: Stenberg is an NHL player, and it changes the picture
Redone, with Stenberg in the lineup where he belongs