Nabokov, Sharks Agree

Goalie Evgeni Nabokov agreed to a two-year, $7.15-million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday, ending his holdout after five games.

Nabokov, the franchise’s career victories leader with 71 over his first two NHL seasons, sat out all of training camp and the first two weeks of the regular season while seeking a dramatic increase from the $575,000 he earned last season.

Without Nabokov and holdout defenseman Brad Stuart, the Sharks have started 1-4.

“Who we kidding here? To say that the performance of the team does not factor into the urgency of your analysis is just not being truthful,” General Manager Dean Lombardi said. “It forced us to do something in our evaluation planning that maybe we would have put off.”