The San Jose Sharks aren’t the best team in the league, but somehow, some way, the Sharks have the Minnesota Wild’s number. It took extra time once again, but the Sharks swept the season series with the Wild today, with a 4-3 shootout win. The win claimed the Sharks’ 20th win of the season, equaling San Jose’s total wins in all of the 2024-25 season. The last time the Sharks had 20 or more wins before the turn of the calendar was in 2018-19, when the team had 46 wins and made the playoffs. Whi...
The San Jose Sharks welcome the Minnesota Wild to the Shark Tank today, hoping to sweep the season series. It’s a much different Wild team than the Sharks have played in the past two outings. The Sharks won the previous two meetings, though both of those happened before the Quinn Hughes trade. San Jose won 6-5 in overtime on Oct. 26 and 2-1 in overtime on Nov. 11.
But now, the Wild have one of the best defensemen in the world in Hughes. Since acquiring Hughes on Dec. 12, the Wild have gon...
After months and months of speculation, only made stronger by exceptional play by the 19-year-old, Team Canada’s brain trust made it official this morning by naming young Sharks’ center Macklin Celebrini to the Olympic roster. Celebrini will join the best of the best on the world stage in Milan in February, and he could very well play a top-six role for Team Canada; he’s had that good a season with the Sharks. For Team Canada General Manager Doug Armstrong, picking Celebrini was a process that...
At the end of the season, they don’t ask how; they ask how many, and in the world of Sharks stats, last night was a regulation win over a division rival, even if it was incredibly ugly. The San Jose Sharks were outshot and out-possessed in a 5-4 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.
Natural Stat Trick’s Corsi Differential in all situations shows just how lopsided the puck possession was between the Sharks and the Ducks.
The shot differential reflected the difference. The Sharks were o...
The San Jose Sharks finish up the short two/three game road trip (three if you count that it straddled the Christmas break) with a visit to the Anaheim Ducks. The Sharks are coming off a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks, while the Ducks are coming off a 6-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. Both teams are in a playoff spot as of this morning. The Ducks are second in the Pacific Division with a 21-15-2 record, while the Sharks are 18-17-3 and hold the second wild card spot.
The ...
The San Jose Sharks finish up the short two/three game road trip (three if you count that it straddled the Christmas break) with a visit to the Anaheim Ducks. The Sharks are coming off a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks, while the Ducks are coming off a 6-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. Both teams are in a playoff spot as of this morning. The Ducks are second in the Pacific Division with a 21-15-2 record, while the Sharks are 18-17-3 and hold the second wild card spot.
The ...
The San Jose Sharks returned from the Christmas break rested and ready to start on time. Unlike the last few games, the Sharks were ready to go from the drop of the puck and then didn’t let up no matter what twists and turns the game took. Which is why Natural Stat Trick’s Game Flow chart in all situations shows a steady increase in Sharks possession as the game wore on.
San Jose received contributions from up and down the lineup 12 players registered at least a point in this game an...
The San Jose Sharks return from the holiday break with a matchup that will hopefully get the team back on track, a revamped Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks are in the team’s post-Quinn Hughes era after a blockbuster trade with the Minnesota Wild that sent the superstar defenseman to the Central Division and injected the Canucks with some high-end youth.
General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that the #Canucks have acquired forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Öhgren, defenceman Zeev Buiu...
Progress in the National Hockey League doesn’t always show up right away. Sometimes it’s not about wins or losses. It’s about how you respond when games start to slip.
For the San Jose Sharks, that response has started to change. Timothy Liljegren has seen it firsthand.
“You can kind of notice that we don’t give up in games,” Liljegren said. Even when things don’t start their way, the fight stays. He pointed to comebacks and efforts as proof that this group isn’t checking out when th...
As a San Jose Sharks fan, if you were already having a bad day – maybe you forgot your dose of SSRIs, were anxious about the upcoming holidays, or maybe you simply felt woozy about this game – it’s likely that the first period at T-Mobile Arena only exacerbated your symptoms. Each team rode a two-game losing streak heading into the game, with this being the final night for both before the NHL’s three-day break, came in today with plenty of reason for motivation. San Jose completely fell flat, ...
The San Jose Sharks take a brief trip to Vegas before they go their separate ways for the holiday break. San Jose has lost two games in a row and is desperate to avoid a third. So far, the team has been pretty good about keeping the losing streaks short, but this might be the toughest test yet, going against the Vegas Golden Knights, which is ranked second in the Pacific Division as of this morning.
The Sharks should have an extra incentive not to let Vegas win tonight. Carter Hart is exp...
Look, being a player in the National Hockey League is hard, and not just the physical aspect. For young stars Collin Graf, Zack Ostapchuck and Yaroslav Askarov, it’s being away from home, especially during the holidays. One moment you are playing in your hometown, and the next you are thousands of miles away for long stretches in a new place they now call home.
So, how are some of the young San Jose Sharks spending Christmas?
Askarov will be taking the calm approach.
“Just gonna...
The San Jose Sharks fell to a desperate Seattle Kraken squad, unfortunately unable to grab two points from ome of the teams it needed to claim points from.
First Period
The Sharks won the opening faceoff, and off the bat, Igor Chernyshov got a great chance. Within a minute and thirty seconds, the Sharks were already up 3 shots on goal.
William Eklund had a good chance five minutes in, but Joey Daccord stood tall. Early on, the issue for San Jose was the defense. They were making...
The San Jose Sharks look to get things back on track tonight against the flailing Seattle Kraken. After a tough outing against the Dallas Stars on Thursday night, where the Sharks did a lot of good things, but could not get the win, San Jose has the chance to turn things around quickly. The Kraken are in the midst of a massive slump. The team has lost its last four games and won just one game in its last 11. Seattle is 12-14-6 and now rank 8th in the Pacific Division. The team’s most recent lo...
Author’s note: I apologize for the tardiness of this quick bites. I went to the game, but have been under the weather and unable to finish it up.
The San Jose Sharks managed to hang with the Dallas Stars and show that this team has some of the skill that it needs to play among the best in the NHL, but that finish isn’t quite there. The best teams in the NHL know how to negate mistakes, and the Sharks, well, they’re still learning.
The biggest mistake is likely the one that cost the t...
The Dallas Stars visit the San Jose Sharks tonight and the Sharks are looking for some revenge. The last time these two teams met was in Dallas and the Stars showed the Sharks what elite NHL teams do. Dallas smothered Macklin Celebrini and the Sharks, shutting down all offensive hope and then beating the Sharks 4-1 . San Jose would love to get one back, this time in the team’s own barn.
The Stars are 22-7-5 on the season and remain second in the Central Division, though how long Dallas wi...
The Sharks did not ease into the game, did not feel their way through the opening shifts, and did not wait to see what Calgary brought with it. From the opening faceoff, the ice belonged to speed, pressure, and a team willing to play on instinct.
First period
The puck hit the ice right at 7:09 pm at the SAP Center. Not even two minutes had gone by, and John Klibngberg had a mission. With the help of Macklin Celebrini, the Sharks were on the board right away.
62 seconds into th...
The San Jose Sharks are back home after a road trip that started out bumpy, but ultimately ended successfully with a winning record. San Jose will have to bring that momentum into SAP Center tonight against the Calgary Flames.
The Flames are on a short, two-game road trip on the West Coast. Calgary beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 in overtime on Saturday thanks to Dustin Wolf, who stopped 21 of 22 shots. Wolf is back on track after a tough start to the season. He now has a 10-12-2 record wi...
The San Jose Sharks will be without two key forwards for at least the next few weeks. The team placed Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev on injured reserve earlier this week because of injuries they suffered during Saturday’s game in Pittsburgh.
Kurashev went hard into the boards in the second period. While it was a Penguins’ influenced play, it wasn’t necessarily dirty.
Kurashev goes hard into the boards. Currently on the bench getting treatment. No penalty on the play. #LetsGoPens 2, ...
The San Jose Sharks did something today that no other Sharks team has ever done. Down 5-1 in the third period, the team overcame a four-goal deficit to not just tie the game, but win it, something that no other Sharks team in the history of the franchise has done. Of course, that’s in part because the stacked teams of the past never would have gotten themselves into such a predicament in the first place, but we take our wins where we can get them. The Sharks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-5 in...
The San Jose Sharks are in Pittsburgh today for a day game against the Penguins. The big story is the move the Penguins just made in the net, trading the team’s top goaltender to the Edmonton Oilers for the Oilers’ top netminder. On Friday, it was announced the Penguins acquired Stuart Skinner, defenseman Brett Kulak and Edmonton’s 2029 second-round draft pick for goaltender Tristan Jarry and Sam Poulin.
The Penguins are 14-8-7 and are currently second in the Eastern Conference wild card ...
Pregame
As is always the case when a team comes to Toronto, there were storylines to follow before the puck was even dropped. Sam Dickinson, who grew up a Montreal Canadiens fan in Toronto, had approximately half the population of the city in attendance.
Told Dickinson will have over 80 family/friends at Scotiabank Arena for his homecoming game tonight https://t.co/3Uy109Y2lE — Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) December 11, 2025
The trade over the Summer that brought Ryan...
The San Jose Sharks’ next stop is Toronto where the team takes on the Maple Leafs for stop number four on the road trip. The Leafs have seemingly found a bit better footing in the last few weeks after a tough start to the season and have now worked their way into the playoff picture. That said, Toronto (14-11-4) has a pretty big hole to dig itself out of, and currently sits 7th in the wild card race, though just three points back of Philadelphia which holds the second wild card spot as of toda...
This season continues to be one of ups and downs for the San Jose Sharks. The Sharks have figured out, so far, how to stave off strings of losses. That’s a step in the positive direction. However, stringing together those wins is still something that eludes the team. After the Sharks’ 4-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, forward Ryan Reaves summed it up the best.
Reaves: "Win one, lose one, play well, play like shit, just not going to cut it." — Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) December 1...
The San Jose Sharks are looking to string together some wins and that can start with a strong show in Philadelphia. The Sharks’ road trip continues this afternoon with a visit to the Philadelphia Flyers. This is the first and only visit to the City of Brotherly Love for the Sharks this season (barring a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals, of course). The Sharks are fresh off of Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes , while the Flyers are coming off a 3-2 Sunday loss to the Colorado Avalanc...