{"id":556924,"date":"2026-04-20T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:25:07","slug":"san-jose-sharks-prospects-whl-career-comes-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556924\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Prospect’s WHL Career Comes to a Close"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Sharks<\/a> prospect Joshua Ravensbergen and the Prince George Cougars were eliminated from the Western Hockey League playoffs by the Penticton Vees on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Ravensbergen, the Sharks’ 30th overall selection in the 2025 NHL Draft, had a phenomenal season with Prince George, but now he has his sights set on conquering the world of collegiate hockey.<\/p>\n

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In his final season with the Cougars, Ravensbergen played 46 regular season games, recording a .919 save percentage and a 2.51 goals against average along with four shutouts. In the playoffs, he was just as reliable. In 12 playoff games, he had a .918 save percentage and 2.71 goals against average.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s rare for a 6-foot-5 goalie to play with so much speed and aggressiveness,” Elite Prospects scout Liam Crouse said of the 19-year-old netminder<\/a>. “It gives him such a huge advantage over most because he naturally takes up a ton of space while only boosting that even farther by making saves at the top of his crease even more than most small goalies.”<\/p>\n

With the recent changes to NCAA eligibility, quite a few players have been making the jump from the Canadian Hockey League to the NCAA and Ravensbergen will be among the next batch to do so. A couple of months ago, he committed to Michigan State University for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n

Some of the goalies who made the jump for the 2025-26 season benefitted from it tremendously. The most notable is University of Denver goaltender Johnny Hicks who registered a .957 save percentage and 1.19 goals against average as a 20-year-old freshman.<\/p>\n

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With Michigan State’s former starting goaltender Trey Augustine<\/a> signing his entry level contract with the Detroit Red Wings<\/a> and their former backup Melvin Strahl transferring to the University of Minnesota, it seems there won’t be a considerable amount of competition for Ravensbergen to earn the starting job in East Lansing right out of the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks prospect Joshua Ravensbergen and the Prince George Cougars were eliminated from the Western Hockey League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2456,93,5,712,4,5919,29707,61043,11697,519,168,5306,5305,1780,17929,769],"class_list":{"0":"post-556924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-canadian-hockey-league","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-joshua-ravensbergen","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-penticton-vees","14":"tag-phenomenal-season","15":"tag-prince-george","16":"tag-prince-george-cougars","17":"tag-san-jose","18":"tag-san-jose-sharks","19":"tag-sanjose","20":"tag-sanjosesharks","21":"tag-sharks","22":"tag-trey-augustine","23":"tag-western-hockey-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116439383465414709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}