{"id":563624,"date":"2026-04-30T19:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/563624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:57:36","slug":"breaking-joshua-ravensbergen-named-whl-goaltender-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/563624\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Joshua Ravensbergen Named WHL Goaltender of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Sharks<\/a> prospect Joshua Ravensbergen is capping off his Western Hockey League career with some hardware.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, the WHL announced that Ravensbergen had been named their Goaltender of the Year as the winner of the Del Wilson Memorial Trophy. The award was previously won by a number of respected goaltenders, including Carey Price<\/a>, Mike Vernon, Cam Ward, Dustin Wolf<\/a>, and former Sharks netmindeer Martin Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ravensbergen, the Sharks’ 30th overall selection in the 2025 NHL Draft, was dominant in his final season as a member of the Prince George Cougars. His .919 save percentage led the league and his 2.51 goals against average ranked amongst the top-five in the WHL as well.<\/p>\n

Ravensbergen also becomes the first goaltender associated with an NHL team to win the award since Thomas Milic (Winnipeg Jets<\/a>) won it following the 2022-23 season. The two most recent winners, Max Hildebrand and Brett Mirwald went undrafted in their respective draft years.<\/p>\n

Starting next season, Ravensbergen is moving to the NCAA as he has committed to play for Michigan State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks prospect Joshua Ravensbergen is capping off his Western Hockey League career with some hardware. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2639,2268,504,5,712,20479,6420,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,769,18],"class_list":["post-563624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-cam-ward","tag-carey-price","tag-dustin-wolf","tag-hockey","tag-joshua-ravensbergen","tag-martin-jones","tag-mike-vernon","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks","tag-western-hockey-league","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116495426743376117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563624","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=563624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}