Yaroslav Askarov set a San Jose Sharks record on Monday night.

In the Sharks’ 3-2 shootout win over the New York Islanders, Askarov stopped all eight Islanders shootout attempts, outdueling Ilya Sorokin. That’s the most shootout saves in a game without giving up a goal in franchise history.

The previous high was 7-of-7 for Martin Jones edging the Nashville Predators’ Juuse Saros on Nov. 19, 2019. Timo Meier scored the game-winning shootout goal.

On Monday, it was Ivar Stenberg who would be the hero for the San Jose Sharks, in the eighth round.

From first to Stenberg, in order, Macklin Celebrini, Collin Graf, Will Smith, Kiefer Sherwood, Mason Marchment, Sam Dickinson, and Michael Misa were denied.

So how did San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky decide his shootout order?

Warsofsky shared that the coaching staff, including goaltending coach Thomas Speer, is a big part of the pre-game plan.

“We worked on a project this summer with our analytic guys, put a pretty good package together, and then Thomas goes to the pre-scout [of the opposing goalie],” Warsofsky said. “He’s got a good feel for our shooters, as well.”

Misa alluded to Speer’s pre-scout, when discussing his failed shootout attempt: “Watching the pre-scout on Sorokin, I was thinking low blocker. Saw a couple shootout goals went in there. But then, I thought he was cheating low blocker a little bit, so I tried to go back glove, and he made a good save.”

Warsofsky didn’t elaborate on the analytics project, but it might have included digging into practice shootout attempts and pre-NHL shootout records.

“We got a lot of data. We practice it in practice. We keep track of it,” Warsofsky said. “There’s a lot of data going back to these guys when they’re in junior, lefties, righties. How the goalie goes against certain shooters. There’s a lot of different factors in it.”

So it’s not just the players’ NHL records, which make sense, because the Sharks have so many youngsters. Here, by the way, were all the Sharks’ NHL shootout records, before last night.

Last year, 32.9 percent of all shootout attempts around the NHL were successful.

Celebrini leading off is obvious, and Smith being included in the top-three, despite his early career lack of success, makes sense.

“Will doesn’t have the greatest numbers right now, but you still got a guy that can you know it can click for them at some point,” Warsofsky said.

Warsofsky shared that pre-game, the San Jose Sharks have a good sense of roughly their top-six shootout order.

So Graf and Sherwood and Marchment and Dickinson’s inclusions, which raised some eyebrows, sounds like it was part of the plan, from the beginning.

For what it’s worth, Graf, Sherwood, and Marchment all have soft hands and 20-goal NHL campaigns on their resumes.

A good follow-up question, which wasn’t asked, is how young guns like Stenberg and Misa can cement themselves into the top-three or four, a la Celebrini and Smith.

Perhaps Stenberg, consistently calm and collected, did that last night.